House, 125 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 the first house to be completed in the 1925 subdivision of Daglish (historic value).
• As a good example of the well-built suburban housing constructed by private developers 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
• Hipped roof clad with terracotta tiles and finished with ball-capped finials.
This extends in an unbroken alignment over the return verandah.
• Rendered chimneys with slab caps.
Wall materials and finishes
• Painted brick walls (originally face-brick) with a deep rough-cast rendered eaves panel.
Form and detailing of main façade(s)
• Asymmetrical façade.
• Verandah extending across the face of the main façade and returning along the north-eastern side of the house.
• Half-height tapered masonry verandah piers finished with roughcast render and slab caps. Topped by robust timber posts.
• Central entrance door, flanked by high-level narrow sidelights.
• Splayed entrance steps located at the north-eastern end of the main frontage (aligning with the side verandah).
• Corner window with paired casements at the north-eastern end of the main façade.
• Other primary doors/windows concealed from view.
Streetscape setting
• Main façade set back approx. 6m from the front boundary.
• Front boundary defined by a high brick fence, backed dense garden planting.
Major alterations
• Rear two storey additions are visible, but do not detract from an appreciation of the original roofline and building envelope.
• The high front fence is a modern alteration and obscures views to the house from the public realm.

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 station. A contemporary newspaper report stated that D J Duggan had purchased Lot 67 (125 Stubbs Terrace) for £81.
A newspaper report dated August 1936 noted that the first house to be erected in Daglish was a brick residence for Mr. D. J. Duggan, in Stubbs Terrace, completed in 1927. By the end of 1928, 125 Stubbs Terrace was one of around 25 brick houses in Daglish, all of which were described as being “of good design”.
In the Electoral Rolls of 1929, the occupants of the house were identified as Daniel Joseph Duggan (railway employee), Lucy Ellen Duggan (home duties) and Miriam Duggan (clerk). Online family trees suggest that Daniel (c.1881-1953) had married Lucy Schofield (c.1879-1941) in Fremantle in 1907 and that they had at least two children, Miriam and Maxwell. Miriam appears to have soon joined in with local activities and was one of the members of the Daglish Tennis Club committee when it was established in 1931.
Daniel, who had joined the railway department as a junior porter in 1899, rose to the level of transport inspector by 1935, a position he held until his retirement in the early 1940s. He moved away from Daglish following his wife’s death and in 1942 the Post Office Directory listed a Terry Bernard as the occupant, followed by Thomas and Barbara Oakley from c.1943 to the mid 1950s.
Historical aerial photographs show that a two-storey addition was constructed at the rear of the house in c.2000/2001.

Condition

Good: Based on a streetscape inspection the place appears to be in a sound condition.

Uses

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Creation Date

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