179 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 • Gable-hipped roof, clad with terracotta tiles. • Roofline extends in an unbroken rake over the entry porch. • Rendered chimney with a gable cap, topped by a terracotta chimney pot. Wall materials and finishes • Rock-faced stone foundations capped by three courses of face brick. • Main part of walls fully rendered. Form and detailing of main façade(s) • Asymmetrical façade. • Projecting wing slightly off-set from the centre of the main facade. • Entry porch incorporated as the south-western part of the projecting wing. This features robust rectangular piers; stepped arches; and wrought iron balustrades. Steps provide access at the rear of the south-western side. • Casement windows to the main façade. The double and triple casements feature two panes of obscure glass with timber mullions to the upper part of each panel, with simple rectangular leadlight glazing below. The single casement has simple square panes with timber mullions. • Moulded, rendered window sills. • Tiled, hipped window hoods set on masonry bracket, over the double and triple casement windows. • Traditional single garage set forward of the house at the north-eastern end. This features a tiled gable roof, masonry eaves brackets and rendered walls. Streetscape setting • House set on an irregular tapered block adjacent to the intersection of Stubbs and Cunningham Terrace. • Centre of main façade set back approx. 5m from the front boundary. • Boundary unfenced in front of the house. • High fence screening the side (north-eastern) yard, • Mature shrubs and trees partly screening the house from view.

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 December 1933, tenders were called for the erection of a Workers Homes Board house on Lot 171 Stubbs Terrace. The first known occupants were James David Hood Nisbet (c.1892-1939) (police officer) and his wife, Ann Kirkwood Sinclair (‘Cissie’) Nisbet (c.1891-1963) who were married in Scotland in c.1914 and migrated to Australia in the early 1920s. In November 1939 it was reported that: Detective-Sergeant James David Nisbet died suddenly at a private hospital in Subiaco yesterday morning after a short illness. …. Born at Cathcart, Scotland, the late Detective-Sergeant Nisbet joined the West Australian police service on April 22, 1921. He was promoted to the detective branch on May 1, 1923, and was made a sergeant on August 18, 1933, and a second-class sergeant on August 10, 1935. He had been stationed mostly at Perth and Fremantle. He went to Fremantle Criminal Investigation Branch in December, 1923, and returned to Perth in October, 1932. Among important criminal cases on which he was engaged was the Caris Bros.' murder case. Ann remained at 179 Stubbs Terrace for a few more years, but by the late 1940s the house was occupied by their son, Thomas Granger Nisbet and his wife, Beverley (nee Scholefield). Thomas and Beverley remained here until around the mid-1950s, after which they moved to Dalkeith. 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 to the front portion of the original house.

Condition

Based on a streetscape inspection the buildings appear to be in a fair condition.

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