House, 129 Stubbs Tce, Daglish

Parent Place or Precinct

24361 Daglish Conservation Area

Statement of Significance

The place has cultural heritage significance for the City of Subiaco:
• As a good example of the well-built suburban housing constructed when Daglish was undergoing its initial development phase in the late 1920s (aesthetic and historic values).
• For the way in which it helps to illustrate the development of Daglish with a mixture of private and Workers Homes Board housing during the inter-war period (historic values).
• For its contribution to the Inter-War, Garden Suburb qualities of the 1925 subdivision of Daglish (aesthetic values).

Physical Description

Roof form and materials
• Cross-gabled roof clad with terracotta tiles and finished with rams-horn terracotta finials.
• Prominent street facing dormer with a gabled roof, shingle patterned apex panel and decorative, tapered, Inter-War era timber frames to the casement windows.
Wall materials and finishes
• Timber framed attic room with panel and batten cladding.
• Face-brick façade to the ground floor level with a contrasting rendered stringcourse and rendered lintels.
• Rock-faced stone foundations.
Form and detailing of main façade(s)
• Symmetrical façade.
• Wide verandah with a distinctive low-pitched gable roof, featuring tapered timber battens and a shingle patterned apex panel.
• Robust, stepped and tapered face-brick verandah posts with decorative brick coursework to the upper sections.
• Timber verandah balustrade with slender, square-profile balusters.
• Wide, central verandah steps leading towards a recessed entry bay with a shaped rendered lintel.
• Triple panel windows with narrow casements either side of a wider central panel. Finished with timber framed square, ripple glass panes to the upper sections.
Streetscape setting
• Main façade set back approx. 6.5m from the front boundary.
• Front boundary defined by a low clipped hedge.
Major Alterations
• Modern addition along the south-western side.
This has been designed in a manner that provides a clear contrast with the original house. It does not adversely impact on an appreciation of the original design in views from the street.

History

In 1925, the first part of the suburb of Daglish was laid out by the State Government on an undeveloped railway reserve, with the subdivision applying elements of the Garden Suburb model of development. In October 1925 the first auction for the new town site resulted in the sale of 96 of the 110 lots offered in the area bounded by Troy Terrace, part of Robinson Street, what is now Olga Place, Stubbs Terrace, the southern end of Cunningham Terrace and Millington Avenue. The reserve prices for different lots were set at £50, £75 and £100, with the price increasing with proximity to the railway . A contemporary newspaper report stated that J H Martin of Subiaco had purchased Lot 65 (129 Stubbs Terrace) for £78.
An analysis of the Rate Books indicates that the house was constructed in c.1928 for John Martin, clerk. In 1937-38 and 1938-39 the entries in the Rate Books also included the initials WHB, which suggests that it was constructed with assistance from the Workers’ Homes Board.
In the Electoral Rolls of 1931, the occupants were more specifically identified as John Hamilton Martin (clerk), Myra Evelyn Mayne Martin (home duties) and Myra’s father, Duncan Henry Braidwood (a ‘contractor’, who died in October 1934, aged 78 years). Online family trees and newspaper notices suggest that John (c.1887-1960) had married Myra (c.1885-1972) in East Perth in 1913 and that they had five children: John, Isabel, Sheila, Ronald and Duncan.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Electoral Rolls also listed Sheila Mayne Hill (home duties) and Isabel Hamilton Boyd (home duties) at this address (presumably two of John and Myra’s daughters). John and Myra were still listed at 129 Stubbs Terrace in the Electoral Rolls of 1958, and Myra was still listed here in 1968. Isabel Boyd and other members of her family continued to live here in the 1960s and 1970s.
Information provided by a descendant of the original owner states that the staircase was salvaged from the former home of Duncan Braidwood (‘Belvedere’ in East Perth, demolished 1920s). The Jacaranda tree in the yard was planted in 1952.
Historical aerial photographs show that timber-framed additions were added along the south-western side of the house in c.2021.
Note: Another house of a similar design (but with different verandah and dormer detailing) was built at 26 Troy Terrace in c.1933.

Integrity/Authenticity

High: The original external detailing appears to be largely intact.

Condition

Based on a streetscape inspection the building appears to be in a good condition.

Uses

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