33 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

Two storey brick and iron house. The house has undergone alterations to the presentation and includes a two storey addition to all but the front two rooms of the house.

The brick house originally presented with fairfaced brick to the lower half of the elevation and roughcast render to the upper half, separated by a brick strong course. The brickwork has now been heavily painted over with just the feint outline of bricks remaining extant. Both sections are painted the same colour removing the key distinctive qualities of the materials in the building’s presentation.

The façade is symmetrical with a centrally placed entrance flanked by identical windows. The windows are multi-paned timber framed casement arranged in groups of three. The door is timber panelled obscured by security screen.

The roof is hipped with small gablet at the apex. The roof continues down to form the verandah canopy at the same pitch. A painted brick chimney with corbelling and a honeypot flue remains extant.

The verandah canopy is supported on turned timber posts. The verandah deck is concrete which is likely to be a replacement of the original timber decking.

The garden is planted and paved and enclosed by a 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 14, 15, 16 and 17 were transferred to Oswald St John, a gentleman in 1891 but there is no evidence to indicate that the land was developed by this owner. It was not until the 1910s that the first lots were occupied in this portion of Subiaco. Analysis of Rate Books and PO Directories indicates that this place was likely constructed c.1924.

The Rate Books contain the following listings:
• 1929/30 Mrs Constance Blymont – owner & Godfrey Kemp (carpenter) – occupier (assume spelling is McClymont as per the Post Office Directories and Electoral Roles)
• 1935/36 & 1936/37 Constance Blymont – owner & Mrs Eliza Nilsson (widow) occupier (assume spelling is McClymont as per the Post Office Directories and Electoral Roles)

The PO directories list the following occupants:
• 1925 - 1926 Felstead, Thomas George & Dillon, Mrs Lydia (nurse)
• 1928 - McClymont, William
• 1929 – 1932 Kemp, Godfrey
• 1933 – 1937/38 Nilsson, Mrs
• 1939/40 – 1941/42 Turner, William
• 1942/43 – 1949 Davis, Ern

From the above information it is difficult to determine who the first owner was as Post Office Directories only list occupants and the Rate Books for the period prior to 1929 are not available. The information does however indicate that the place was constructed in c.1924 and that William McClymont (c1861-1947) and his wife Constance Mabel McClymont, nee Gibson, who had married in 1925, owned the place from at least 1928 to 1937.. The information also indicates that the McClymont’s only occupied the place briefly and then leased it to various tenants. William worked as a storeman and the couple relocated to the goldfields in the 1930s. The house was likely to be their first home as a couple.
Aerial photographs indicate that this residence and the adjacent at HN31 were originally similar in roof form and extent indicating that these two were built at the same time by a developer using a similar design and builders. This residence lost its original roof form as a result of additions in the 1970s . Major alterations which altered the roof line were also undertaken in 2001-02

Integrity/Authenticity

Alterations to the finishes of the house have impacted on the authenticity and its presentation. The design intent can still be read.

Condition

Good

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