House, 64 Kenny Street

Statement of Significance

• This place has aesthetic value as an intact example of simple timber housing stock from the early 20th century.
• The place has historic value for its association with the 1910s development of this area
• This place has social value as the house demonstrates the form and scale of housing for working families in the early 20th century.

Physical Description

Elevated single storey timber framed and weatherboard house with hipped iron roof. The house is of simple design with a symmetrical façade consisting of centrally placed glass and timber panelled door with fanlight and 1-over-1 timber framed sashes either side. The hipped roof has a vented gablet to the apex and the roof plane sweeps down to form the verandah canopy with a subtle break of pitch. The canopy is supported with very slender steel posts with a timber/steel pole balustrade. At the time of inspection works were being undertaken to the front of the garden constructing a random bond limestone boundary wall.

History

This portion of Bassendean was subdivided by a group of investors in the early 1900s under the promotional name of 'Tanner's Estate' or the 'Tanner's Extension Estate'. The group of investors included some of the most well-known members of colonial society: S.H. Parker, G.H. Leake, H. Anstey, Dr D. Kenny, J. James, J. Grave, H.E. Parry, Dr J. Hope and W. Paterson. Three of these men; Parker, Leake and Paterson; were at various times members of parliament. Kenny Street was named after Dr Daniel Kenny (1860-1915), born in Ireland
and trained as a medical doctor at Trinity College; he achieved several prominent postings in medical, political and business life in Western Australia. The street began to be settled in the 1910s with most intense development in the Inter War period. From the available information this residence was constructed c1916 for John Leather Roberts (c1883-1975)
and his wife Ina Winifred Roberts. The couple named their home 'Inada' presumably to honour Ina Roberts and lived there until the early 1940s. The residence had a skillion roof addition across the rear in the mid-20th century and this remained in situ until a major addition c2013 which retained the original front portion of the residence and extended the
roof line.

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