28 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 iron house of symmetrical planform to the façade.

The house is of brick construction with tuckpointed finish. The roof is hipped with gablets, reclad in zincalume, and with two painted brick chimneys with terracotta honeypot flues. The roof continues down to form the verandah canopy at a slight break of pitch and extends across the full width of the front elevation. The canopy is supported on square timber posts. The verandah deck is timber.

The symmetrical façade contains a centrally placed entrance flanked by identical windows. The door arrangement consists of a timber and glass panelled door with similar side panels and fanlight. The windows to the façade are arranged in groups of three timber framed casements with integral highlight panes.

The garden is enclosed by timber picket fence.

History

This portion of Sadlier Street was subdivided for residential lots in 1891 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.

Lots 28 and 29 were transferred to Robert James (?) in April 1895 but there is no reason to conclude that the land was developed by this owner. Analysis of Rate Books and PO Directories indicates that this place was likely to have been constructed c.1925.

The Rate Books contain the following listings:
• 1929/30 Miss Morris – owner & Edward Morris - Occupier

The PO directories list the following occupants:
• 1926 Beard, John
• 1928 – 1930 Morris, Edward
• 1931 – 1932 Morris, Mrs Winifred
• 1933/34 Blackburn, Harry
• 1934/35 – 1935/36 Halvorson, Allan
• 1937/38 Jones M
• 1939/40 Vacant
• 1940/41 – 1949 Martin, Jno

From the above information the first owner was Edward Joseph Morris (c1860-1931). In the electoral roles of 1928 the following members of the family were occupying the house.
• Winifred Morris (c1860-1932), married
• Mary Agnes Morris, spinster
• Edward Joseph Morris, retired
Aerial photographs indicate that the residence retained its original form until c1990 when a large addition was constructed at the rear of the building which altered the pitch of the rear roof. There have been no significant alterations in form or extent since then.

Integrity/Authenticity

The house has been reroofed but still presents with a high degree of authenticity. The design intent is readily understood.

Condition

Good

Uses

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