39 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 terracotta tiled house.

The house is of brick construction with the front elevation presenting with four finishes. The lower third is painted brick, separated from the central tuckpointed brick by a projecting dado and the top section of the elevation is roughcast render. The gable has fibro cladding and timber battens. The gable feature also contains a three section window with multi-paned casements and a terracotta tiled canopy.

The verandah is located to the south west corner and is mainly hidden from view. The canopy is supported on masonry piers with roughcast render and painted brick balustrade panels with concrete capping. The main entrance is located in this area but cannot be seen.
The roof line consists of staggered gables, one positioned behind the other, clad with terracotta tiles and adorned with terracotta finials and a roughcast rendered brick chimney with honeypot flue.

The timber framed pergola/carport obscures much of the view of the house together with the dense planting across the street boundary. The garden is 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.

It is probable that this house was one of group of houses (HN35, 37, 39, 41 and 43) that were designed and built by the same developer because of their similarity. It has not been established who was responsible for the design or construction of these homes.

Analysis of Rate Books and PO Directories indicates that this place was likely constructed c.1928.

The Rate Books contain the following listings:
• 1929/30 & 1936/37 Tom Marsland (draftsman) – owner/occupier

The PO Directories list the following occupants:
• 1929 – 1949 Marsland, Tom

Tom Marsland, and his wife Hilda Mary Marsland lived at this house until the 1960s.
Aerial photographs indicate that this residence had a skillion roofed addition at the rear of the property until c1990 when a large terracotta tiled extension was constructed at the rear of the residence. There have been no major changes to the form or extent of the building since that time.

Integrity/Authenticity

The house presents in a moderately authentic manner. The carport in the front setback has reduced the contribution the house makes to the heritage area and the façade has undergone some alteration to the original finishes impacting on its authenticity.

Condition

Fair

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