163 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 houses developed by the Workers Homes Board in the late 1930s to early 1940s (aesthetic value).

Physical Description

Roof form and materials • Hipped-gabled roof clad with terracotta tiles. • Prominent verge gable featuring vertical timber battens to the face, decorative timber brackets to the base-line, and a terracotta rams-horn finial to the apex. • Hipped gables over the side walls (north-east and south-west). • Hipped verandah roof. • Two rendered chimneys, each with a panel of vertical face-bricks to the cap and a terracotta chimney pot. • Wide eaves to the gables. • Timber eaves brackets, each with a projecting face-brick at the base. Wall materials and finishes • Face-brick to window sill height, rendered above. • Contrasting terracotta vents set in the upper sections of the side walls. • Rock-faced stone foundations. Form and detailing of main façade(s) • Asymmetrical, stepped façade. • Projecting wing on the north-eastern side of the main façade, capped by the verge gable. • Triple casement windows. The window to the face of the projecting bay (which is clearly visible from the street), features an angled face-brick lintel, raked face-brick sill and leadlight glazing. • Verandah abutting the projecting wing. This features robust face brick piers with rendered caps, linked by shallow arches. • Main entrance set under the verandah. • Chimney breast expressed externally on south-western elevation. Streetscape setting • Main façade set back approx. 10.5m from the front boundary. • Front boundary defined by a traditional, low, face-brick fence. • Mature shrubs screening the house.

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. In June 1933, tenders were called for the erection of a Workers Homes Board house on Lot 185 Stubbs Terrace (#163). This was initially occupied by Arnold J E Bailey (c.1934-1935), before becoming the long-term home of the James family, who, like many of the early residents of Daglish, were in the early years of their marriage. Alma James Stevens (c.1905-1988) and Arthur Haylock James (c.1904-1968) were married in Perth in c.1932. Arthur was described as a civil servant in the Electoral Rolls and in 1939 a newspaper article more specifically identified him as an officer in the Department of Treasury Taxation Branch (WA). Alma was still listed at this address in the Electoral Rolls of 1980. Historical aerial photographs indicate that the house was extended to the rear in c.2001. 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).

Integrity/Authenticity

High: The original external detailing appears to be largely intact.

Condition

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

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