7 Sadlier Street

Parent Place or Precinct

26270 Sadlier and Redfern Street Heritage Area

Statement of Significance

The Sadlier and Redfern Streets heritage area is of:
Aesthetic Value
• As an aesthetically pleasing streetscape with a strong identifiable character, featuring an avenue of mature street trees, which frame views of the largely Inter War residences.
• For its collection of many good, representative examples of Federation and Inter War cottages and villas which collectively illustrate a range and evolution of detailing between the 1920s and the 1940s.
• For the cohesive streetscape created by a limited palette of materials and styles.
Historic Value
• As a representative collection of houses that illustrate the scale and standard of housing for the homes of unskilled workers to semi-professional and tradespeople, in the early twentieth century.
• For the evidence it provides about the manner in which the residence of semi-professional and tradespeople existed alongside the residences of working people and employees.
• For its association with the subdivision and rapid settlement of the area from the 1920s to the 1930s which demonstrates the rapid change of the district in this period.
Representativeness
• As a good representative collection of early twentieth century housing developed within walking distance of transport and services.
Physical Form in the Public Realm
• The houses, which (with the exception of three modern dwellings) were developed predominantly in the period 1920s to 1940s, have largely retained their original external detailing and form. The defined period and nature of development has resulted in a consistent palette of materials and form, enlivened by diversity of individual details, within a cohesive streetscape.

Physical Description

Single storey brick and tile residence of traditional asymmetric planform.

Californian bungalows are often typified by their gable roofs which can be seen on this property, arranged one behind the other. Both gables are clad with fibro sheeting and timber battens. A hipped roof forms the verandah canopy. A rendered brick chimney remains extant with terracotta honeypot flue.

The windows are timber framed casements with integral highlight panes. The window to the projecting wing has a terracotta tile and timber framed awning and timber sill.

The verandah extends across the recessed section of the elevation, supported on timber posts and with a concrete deck.

The recessed section of the elevation is in two parts with a small projecting entrance feature containing the timber panelled and glazed door, flanked by timber panels and stained glass windows depicting a sailboat and landscape.
The remainder of the façade cannot be seen except for a small window adjacent to the entry feature. The brickwork to the façade shows traces of tuckpoint finish.

The garden is enclosed by a non-original timber fence. There is no car parking available on the lot.

History

This portion of Sadlier Street was subdivided for residential lots in 1893 by owners, the NSW company, Intercolonial Investment Land and Building Company. However the lots were not taken up rapidly. In 1896, lots in the Redfern Estate, Subiaco were advertised in the local press as ‘Good Building Lots, near the railway line’. The subdivision was managed by Alfred Axon, the local branch manager for the Intercolonial Investment Land and Building Company. Axon was also a significant individual investor in Subiaco property.

This lot and adjacent lots 67 and 69 were purchased by Carl Wilhelm Sange (sic) in 1896. There is no evidence the lots were developed at this time.

There are no Rate Books available for the period 1920 to 1928. The house was likely constructed c1926 when it first appears in the PO Directories.

The Rate Books contain the following listings:
• 1929/30 – Arthur Brown – owner & James Walsh (Civil Servant) – occupier
• 1935/36 – Jno Alexander Winter (customs officer) – owner/occupier

PO Directories list the following occupants:
• 1926 – 1930 Mrs Brown
• 1931- 1949 Winter, Jno

From the above information it is concluded the lot was transferred to Arthur Brown who built the residence in c1926. Shop assistant, Arthur Brown had married Evelyne Lottie Burtenshaw (c1898-1987) in 1919. They did not live in this residence for many years and leased it to other occupants before it was transferred to subsequent owners.
Aerial photographs indicate the house was originally roofed in corrugated iron before being extended in the late 1990s and reroofed in terracotta tiles.

Integrity/Authenticity

The house presents with a high level of authenticity. The design intent can be easily understood.

Condition

Good

Uses

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