House, 25 North Road

Statement of Significance

• This place has aesthetic value as a predominantly intact example of the Inter War style.
• The place has historic value for its association with the development of this area of Bassendean in the Inter War period.
• This place has social value as a demonstration of the form and scale of housing in the 1920s for a professional family.

Physical Description

Single storey brick and tile house of traditional asymmetric plan form to the principal elevation. The house has been constructed with face brickwork to the lower 2/3 of the elevation and roughcast render to the remainder of the elevations. The windows are multi-paned timber framed casements with a tiled skillion awning supported on timber brackets to the gabled wing. The roof is hipped to the main part of the roof and gabled to the projecting section clad in terracotta tiles. The majority of the house is obscured from clear view by dense planting.

History

This portion of Bassendean was one of the first areas to be subdivided as town lots of approximately 2 acres each. The land was subsequently subdivided as smaller residential lots in the early 1900s. North Road was named in honour of Lord North of Guildford, an early Secretary of State for the Colonies. Descendants of Lord North were influential in the government and parliament of Western Australia. From the available information this residence was constructed c1922 for accountant Henry Leonard Sykes (c1870-1945) and his wife Isabel Wilmot Sykes, nee Easthope. The couple married in 1911 and were living in
North Road before building this home and living there until Henry Sykes death in 1945.
Aerial photographs indicate the house originally had large formal gardens facing North Road. A large extension was added to the rear in the 1980s.

Integrity/Authenticity

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Moderate

Condition

Good

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