House, 133 Stubbs Tce, Daglish

Parent Place or Precinct

24361 Daglish Conservation Area

Statement of Significance

The place has cultural heritage significance for the City of Subiaco: • As a good example of the well-built suburban housing constructed when Daglish was undergoing its initial development phase in the late 1920s (aesthetic and historic values). • For the way in which it helps to illustrate the development of Daglish with a mixture of private and Workers Homes Board housing during the inter-war period (historic values). • For its contribution to the Inter-War, Garden Suburb qualities of the 1925 subdivision of Daglish (aesthetic values).

Physical Description

Roof form and materials • Visually prominent gabled roof to the original part of the house, clad with terracotta tiles and finished with rams-horn terracotta finials. This features 3 prominent gables, one facing Stubbs Terrace, one facing Hickey Avenue, and the third over the entrance steps facing the street corner. Each of these is divided with robust timber battens. Wall materials and finishes • Face-brick façade to window head height (capped by a header course), with a roughcast rendered eaves panel over. • Rock-faced stone foundations. Form and detailing of main façade(s) • Asymmetrical façade designed to address its corner location. • ‘L’ shaped floor plan with a return verandah wrapping around the corner frontage. • Splayed corner entry to the verandah, defined by wide steps and a decorative gable. • Robust corner verandah posts, featuring tall tapered and rendered piers with slab caps, topped by a short section of face brickwork. • Intermediate ‘classical’ verandah posts. • Painted brick (originally face-brick) verandah balustrade wall, with a perforated face, rendered shaped cap, and decorative rendered panels below the intermediate columns. • Main entrance located at the rear end of the return verandah. • French doors, with leadlight glazing, opening onto the verandah along the Stubbs Terrace frontage. These feature deep rendered lintel panels that wrap around the heads of the openings. • Triple casement windows with a raked awning under the gable to the Hickey Avenue façade. Streetscape setting • The front boundary is curved along the street intersection, with a maximum setback of approx. 6.5m to the main façade. • Front boundary defined by a traditional fence, with a ‘vermiculated’ rendered finish to the posts and woven wire and pipe rail panels. Major Alterations • The c.1970s rear addition has altered the scale and form of the house as viewed from Hickey Avenue, but does not overtly impact on views to the main facades from Stubbs Terrace or the street corner.

History

In 1925, the first part of the suburb of Daglish was laid out by the State Government on an undeveloped railway reserve, with the subdivision applying elements of the Garden Suburb model of development. In October 1925 the first auction for the new town site resulted in the sale of 96 of the 110 lots offered in the area bounded by Troy Terrace, part of Robinson Street, what is now Olga Place, Stubbs Terrace, the southern end of Cunningham Terrace and Millington Avenue. The reserve prices for different lots were set at £50, £75 and £100, with the price increasing with proximity to the railway station. A contemporary newspaper report stated that H P Tucker of West Subiaco had purchased Lot 63 (133 Stubbs Terrace) for £85. The Rate Books indicate that the house was constructed in c.1928 for Henry Tucker, plumber. In the Electoral Rolls of 1931, the occupants were more specifically identified as Henry Penberthy Tucker (plumber) and Gertrude Tucker (nee Thomas) (home duties). Entries in the Rate Books, Electoral Rolls and Post Office Directories indicate that the property was sold in c.1932 to John Baron (‘Jack’) Lovell (customs officer) and his wife, Daisy May Lovell (home duties) – who remained here until the mid 1950s. Historical aerial photographs show that the house was extended to the rear of the side gable in the 1970s. This extension is defined by the hipped roof seen along the Hickey Avenue frontage.

Integrity/Authenticity

High: The original external detailing appears to be largely intact, although the painting of the face-brick detailing to the verandah balustrade has diminished the authenticity of this element.

Condition

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

Uses

Historic Themes

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