25 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 house that has been rendered, altering the appearance of the place. The render has removed the texture from the appearance of the house, creating blank elevations enlivened only by window openings and the corner verandah. There are some areas of original roughcast render remaining to the upper sections of the walls, particularly around the verandah area.
The place is of asymmetric planform with gabled roofs to both street facing elevations with the two wings being united by the corner verandah. The gables and verandah soffit are clad with trimdeck style metal cladding.

The gabled roof sweeps down to form the canopy for the verandah, supported on timber posts with a rendered wall. The deck is concrete.

The windows to Sadlier Street have a timber framed awning and fixed pane openings, with similar openings to Redfern Street which are obscured by safety screens.

The garden is mainly grass with hardstanding for on-site parking and is enclosed by a picket fence to Sadlier Street.

History

This portion of Sadlier Street was subdivided for residential lots in 1893 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 75, 76 and 77 were transferred to Charles John Ellis of NSW in 1898 but there is no evidence to indicate that the land was developed by this owner. Analysis of Rate Books and PO Directories indicates that this place was likely constructed c.1925. It is possible that this residence and the two adjacent (HN21, 23) were constructed by the same developer using similar designs and builders.

Analysis of Rate Books and PO Directories indicates that this place was likely constructed c.1927.

The Rate Books contain the following listings:
• 1929/30 Leonard Hastie (commercial traveller) – owner/occupier
• 1935/36 & 1936/37 Mrs Louise Alcoe – owner/occupier

The PO directories list the following occupants:
• 1928 – 1930 Hastie, Leonard
• 1931 – 1937/38 Alcoe, Mrs L
• 1939/40 – 1949 Alcoe, Mrs L; Clifton, George & De Morley, Lionel W

The first owner and occupant Leonard Roy Hastie (c1894-1958) a commercial traveller married Vera Russell in 1922. The couple only lived and owned the residence for a few years.

No information was found in this research relating to the long term owner and occupant Louise Lillian Alcoe.

Aerial photographs indicate that the addition at the rear of the residence has been present in some form since the mid 20th century. It was extended in the 1980s and has been modified since then.

Integrity/Authenticity

The changes to the façade detailing have impacted on the authenticity of presentation.

Condition

Good

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