Strathcona/Carr Street Precinct

Values

· Excellent near-intact example of a modest residential street of the early Interwar Period.

Physical Description

Virtually intact streetscape of modest late-Federation period and early-Inter War period houses. Characteristically brick and tile, set back from the road on reasonably narrow blocks, with prominent front gables to rooflines. Low front fences and few major garden plantings mean most houses are easily visible from the road. Strathcona Street appears to be entirely free standing single-storey residences. Carr Street includes a number of duplexes, and features more corrugated iron roofing and bullnose verandahs. The only non-residential building reported within the precinct is a shop at the corner of the two streets.

History

The first houses in the precinct were reportedly the duplexes on Carr Street, constructed in 1907 (81-93). A long-term resident remembers these houses as having poor families living in them during World War Two, notable for their lack of shoes. Strathcona Street, named for a Canadian Parliamentarian of the nineteenth century, had four homes erected in 1914. The intervention of World War One halted development, but from 1919 construction began again, and most of the street was built in the 1920s. The corner shop is remembered as having been trading from at least the early 1930s. Photographs taken between 1928 and 1970 show little change in the streetscape.

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