35 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 tile house.

The house is of asymmetric plan form with projecting main façade and recessed entrance behind a small verandah. The main elevation is of brick construction with tuckpoint finish to the lower two thirds and roughcast render to the remaining upper section. It also contains a square bay that has a roughcast rendered panel below the window. The window is a three section opening with timber framed casements and a tiled awning canopy.

The roof form is a series of gables, each with fibro cladding and timber battens. This detail is also found in the verandah soffit. The roof is adorned with terracotta finials and a rendered brick corbelled chimney.

The verandah is located at the southern corner of the house, covered with a skillion tiled canopy. The deck is painted concrete. The main entrance is located to the rear of the verandah and comprises a simple timber framed and glazed door, divided into horizontal glass panels, with small high-level side windows and fanlights.

A garage was constructed to the side of the verandah in the 1950s, following the same design principles of the house being constructed in roughcast render and face brick with a gable facing the street.

The garden is enclosed by a low rendered wall with piers and decorative steel panels.

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.

Lot 18 was transferred to Peter Rely of NSW in 1896 but there is no evidence to indicate that the land was developed by this owner. It was not until the 1910s that the first lots were occupied in this portion of Subiaco. Analysis of Rate Books and PO Directories indicates that this place was likely constructed
c1927.

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.

The Rate Books contain the following listings:
• 1929/30 & 1936/37 Mrs Dorothy Marshall – owner and Percy Marshall (electrician) – occupier.

The PO directories list the following occupants:
• 1928 – 1949 Marshall, Percy

From the above information the first owners and occupants were electrician Percy Henry Marshall (c1883-1962) and his wife Dorothy Maie Marshall (c1900-1980).

Aerial photographs indicate that a skillion roof addition at the rear of the building has been in evidence since the mid-20th century and the form and extent have not changed significantly since that time.

Integrity/Authenticity

The house presents with a high degree of authenticity with little change to the presentation of the façade. The design intent of the place is clearly visible.

Condition

Good

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