32 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 tiled house of asymmetric planform.

The brickwork has been rendered removing all traces of the original brick finish which may have been tuckpointed. The roof is hipped to the main section of house with the roofline having been altered to accommodate two dormer openings. A separate hip with timbered gablet extends over the verandah and a gabled roof extends over the projecting wing.

The detail of the house cannot be clearly seen due to the planting in the garden. A terracotta tiled canopy protects the windows in the gables section. The verandah canopy is supported on Tuscan styled columns. The verandah deck cannot be seen. There are no chimneys.

The garden is enclosed by 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 28 and 29 were transferred to Robert James (?) in April 1895 but there is no reason to conclude that the land was developed by this owner. 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 John Lunt (school teacher) owner/occupier

The PO directories list the following occupants:
• 1930 – 1949 Lunt Jno C

From the information above it can be concluded that the first owner and occupier was teacher John Colin Lunt (c1885-1972). John Lunt married Clarissa Cecilia Prince in 1914, and in 1925 the couple were living in Onslow Road Subiaco.

This residence was built during 1928 but no information relating to the builder or architect of the place has been found in this research.

The Lunt family lived at the residence until the 1980s.

Aerial photographs indicate the place has been extended and developed since the mid 20th century with several additions to the existing building and new structures in the lot. Additions have included new accommodation in the roof space which is demonstrated by the insertion of dormer windows on the north elevation. All the additions have been roofed with terracotta tiles to match the original cladding.

Integrity/Authenticity

The house has undergone changes to the finishes and introduction of dormers to the roof which reduces the authenticity of its presentation.

Condition

Good

Uses

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