21 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 tiled dwelling.

The house is of brick construction finished with tuckpointing to the lower half and roughcast render to the upper section, separated by a projecting brick stringcourse. The tuckpointing has been painted over but remains visible under the finish. The two sections of wall are painted in contrasting colours.

The house is of asymmetric planform incorporating a prominent gabled section towards the street. The gable detail and soffit to the verandah are both clad with fibro sheeting and timber battens.

Shade cloth across the verandah obscures the recessed section of the house and the entrance. The balustrade is constructed of rendered masonry scored to look like stone and rendered masonry panels with concrete capping. Timber posts support the canopy.

The gabled section contains a three section window with timber framed casements and terracotta tile awning.

A roughcast rendered chimney with brick detailing and terracotta honeypot flue projects from the rear of the roof.

The garden is enclosed with low brick wall and tall piers with palisade style panels.

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 (HN23, 25) were constructed by the same developer using similar designs and builders.

The Rate Books contain the following listings:
• 1929/30 & 1936/37 Miss Annie Howell (home duties) – owner/occupier
The PO Directories list the following occupants:
• 1926 – 1935/36 Howell, Miss A
• 1937/38 – 1949 Howell, Miss A & Jennings, Miss Kate

From the above information this residence was built c1925 for Annie Howell (c1872-1949). Annie Howell was a teacher and she named this house ‘Chulmleigh’ which is likely to recognise a town in North Devon, UK. No further information has been found in this research relating to Annie Howell.
Aerial photographs indicate that a skillion roof was evident across the rear of the residence in 1953 and remained in that form until c1990 when a large addition was constructed at the rear of the building. This addition with a pitched tiled roof replicated the proportions of the original roof form. The extent and form of the residence have not changed significantly since then.

Integrity/Authenticity

The alterations to the finishes impact on the authenticity and presentation of the place. The design intent of the house remains discernible.

Condition

Good

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