14 Cunningham Terrace

Parent Place or Precinct

24361 Daglish Conservation Area

Statement of Significance

The place has cultural heritage significance for the City of Subiaco:
• For the way in which it helps to illustrate the development of the south-western end of Daglish by the Workers Homes Board in c.1933-1940 , which was an important part of the progressive development of Daglish (historic value).
• As a representative example of the simple, functional houses developed by the Workers Homes Board in the late 1930s to early 1940s (aesthetic value).
Note: While the houses built by the WHB in the 1930s varied widely in their fine scale detailing and finishes, most had a clearly recognisable underlying character, which this place helps to illustrate.

Physical Description

Roof form and materials
• Hipped roof over the main part of the house.
• Gabled roof projecting forward over the entry porch.
• Autumn-toned clay tiles.
• Rendered chimney with simple recessed detailing to the cap.
Wall materials and finishes
• Face brick skirt below window sill height.
• Plain rendered finish above window sill height and to the verandah piers.
• Rock-faced stone foundations.
Form and detailing of main façade(s)
• Symmetrical façade.
• Prominent central porch.
This features a gabled roof, with broken-pediment detailing to the eaves; a rendered gable end with a vestigial ‘gable-vent’ detail; and large piers paired with slender ‘Doric’ columns.
• Wide entrance steps.
• Suspended flat window awnings.
• Paired double-hung windows, with each sash divided into 6 panes by slender timber mullions.
• Raked face-brick window sills.
• Chimney breast expressed along the side (northern) elevation.
Streetscape setting
• Main façade set back approx. 8.4m from the front boundary.
• Font boundary defined by tall, rendered piers with spear-topped metal infill panels.
• Driveway along the northern side to a rear garage.

History

The area bounded by Cunningham Terrace, Millington Avenue, part of Troy Terrace and the south-western end of Stubbs Terrace formed part of the original 1925 subdivision of Daglish. However, the 32 lots in this area were set aside for use by the Workers’ Homes Board and were not released for development until c.1933. The first residents were listed along this section of Cunningham Terrace in the Post Office Directory of 1934, by which time 3 houses had been built.
In November 1933, tenders were called for the erection of a Workers Homes Board house on Lot 192 Cunningham Terrace. Over the first few years this house (now #14, originally known as #16) was occupied by:
 Alan Ewart Betts (clerk) (c.1934-1935)
 Nelson Burton (c.1936)
 Cyril Trotman (clerk) (c.1937-1938)
In c.1939 it became the long-term family home of the Boland family. Myrtle Daphne Kirwan (c.1908-1977) and Robert Andrew Boland (c.1908-1969) (traveller) were married in Perth in c.1934. Entries in the online Electoral Rolls suggest that they continued to live at 14 Cunningham Terrace until around the time of Andrew’s death.
Historical aerial photographs show that major additions were built at the rear of the house in the mid-late 1990s.
In 2016 a preliminary heritage assessment of the City of Subiaco’s Station Precincts identified this house as retaining a high degree of authenticity, as viewed from the street. It was then entered in the Local Heritage Survey (Level 3 - Some Significance).

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.

Creation Date

Publish place record online (inHerit):

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