2 Cunningham Terrace

Parent Place or Precinct

24361 Daglish Conservation Area

Statement of Significance

The place has cultural heritage significance for the City of Subiaco: • For the way in which it helps to illustrate the development of the south-western end of Daglish by the Workers Homes Board in c.1933-1940, which was an important part of the progressive development of Daglish (historic value). • As a representative example of the simple, functional houses developed by the Workers Homes Board in the late 1930s to early 1940s (aesthetic value). Note: While the houses built by the WHB in the 1930s varied widely in their fine scale detailing and finishes, most had a clearly recognisable underlying character, which this place helps to illustrate.

Physical Description

Roof form and materials • Gabled roof, clad with autumn-toned clay tiles. • Hipped tiled roof to entry porch. • Wide, lined eaves. Wall materials and finishes • Stretcher-bond face brick in dappled red/liver tones. • Vertical brick lintels. • Contrasting ½ height bricks used for the caps of the piers to the entry porch, Form and detailing of main façade(s) • ‘L’ shaped plan form to the street façades, with the entry porch forming a prominent corner element. • This porch, which faces the intersection of Cunningham and Stubbs Terrace, features large corner piers, linked by a brick balustrade. • Prominent chimney breast to the centre of the gable end facing Cunningham Terrace. • Double-hung, timber-framed windows with the upper sashes divided into 3 horizontal panes. Streetscape setting • The house is located on a corner block with an irregular shape. • The main façades are set back approx. 13m from the street frontage facing the intersection of Cunningham and Stubbs Terrace and about 4.5m from the Cunningham Terrace frontage. • Street boundary defined by a low face-brick wall with tall face-brick posts and timber picket panels. Major alterations • Subdivision of the original rear yard and development with a new house (c.1995-2000). • Carport constructed towards the rear of the house along the Cunningham Terrace frontage (c.1995-2000).

History

The area bounded by Cunningham Terrace, Millington Avenue, part of Troy Terrace and the south-western end of Stubbs Terrace formed part of the original 1925 subdivision of Daglish. However, the 32 lots in this area were set aside for use by the Workers’ Homes Board and were not released for development until c.1933. The first residents were listed along this section of Cunningham Terrace in the Post Office Directory of 1934, by which time 3 houses had been built. This increased to 4 in 1935 and 8 in 1940 (being #s 2, 4, 6, 8, 18, 12, 14 and 16). 2 Cunningham Terrace was first listed in 1939. Like many of the early residents of Daglish the first known occupants were in the early years of their marriage. Mary Agnes (‘Pat’) Murphy (c.1915-1987) and Albert Lloyd Strack (c.1910-1980) (French polisher) were married in Perth in 1938. Various newspaper reports indicate that ‘Lloyd’ Strack was captain of the Subiaco Football team in 1940 and was selected to represent the State “on more than one occasion”. He enlisted in the armed services during 1940, was wounded at Tobruk in late 1941, was taken prisoner at Ruin Ridge in Libya in July 1942 and was repatriated to Australia in June 1945. ‘Lloyd’ and ‘Pat’ were still listed at 2 Cunningham Terrace in the Electoral Rolls of 1980. The rear yard was subdivided and developed with a new house in c.1995-2000 (2A Cunningham Terrace). In 2016 a preliminary heritage assessment of the City of Subiaco’s Station Precincts identified 2 Cunningham Terrace as retaining a high degree of authenticity, as viewed from the street. It was subsequently entered in the Local Heritage Survey (Level 3 - Some Significance).

Integrity/Authenticity

High level of authenticity

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