159 Stubbs 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 • Hipped roof over the main part of the house, clad with terracotta-coloured tiles. • Gabled roof to the entry porch. • Plain face-brick chimney. Wall materials and finishes • Red face-brick walls. • Contrasting pillow-faced stone detailing to the verandah. Form and detailing of main façade(s) • Asymmetrical façade. • Slightly projecting wing on the south-western side of the main façade. • Prominent porch projecting forward across the north-eastern side of the main facade. This features a large verge gable, with a ramshorn finial, flush panel face, circular gable-vent detail and a raked, tiled baseline. Below the gable, the porch is framed by robust stone piers and a stone balustrade, both with contrasting brick capping. • Paired double-hung windows to the main facade. • Soldier brick lintels • Chimney breast expressed along the side (north-eastern) elevation. Streetscape setting • Main façade set back approx. 8.3m from the front boundary. • Front boundary defined by a traditional post and rail fence with diamond mesh wire panels. • Hard-stand car-parking bay off the Troy Terrace frontage. Major alterations • The rear additions and the subdivision of the lot have altered the traditional setting of the house, but these works have not adversely impacted on an appreciation of the original design in the views from Stubbs Terrace.

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 house at 159 Stubbs Terrace (corner Troy Terrace) was built in c.1933 and became the long-term home of the Higgs family. Lillian Esther (‘Lily’) Short (c.1888-1972) and Arthur Cecil Higgs (c.1885-1968) had been married in Fremantle in c.1909. In 1925 Arthur was appointed as Chief Health Inspector at Subiaco Council and served in this position until his retirement in mid 1950. Lillian and Arthur remained at 159 Stubbs Terrace until around the mid-1960s, after which they moved to Busselton. Historical aerial photographs show that rear additions were undertaken in the early 1970s (along the Troy Terrace frontage). The block was subdivided and a new house built on the former rear yard in the late 1990s (1 Troy Terrace). In 2016 a preliminary heritage assessment of the City of Subiaco’s Station Precincts identified this house 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).

Condition

Based on a streetscape inspection the building appears to be in a good condition.

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