Sans Souci

Statement of Significance

One of the earliest houses along Curtin Avenue.

Physical Description

1995 Comment: An early stone cottage with interesting detail, possibly of historic significance.
"Sans Souci". A Victorian style stone bungalow with hipped roof and gable front, 1902-4. The house has a bullnosed iron roofed verandah to south and east. The gable front is pierced with an arrow slit air vent. It now has a scalloped bargeboard appropriate to the period. The paired windows are double-hung. Square verandah posts hold up the roof. The verandah enclosed with asbestos below a wooden handrail. The brick chimneys are corbelled. The distinctive random rubble wall of limestone with cast-iron panels similar to those in Jarrad street as seen in early photographs has gone and is replaced by a brick fence of recent vintage.
2002 Reassessment: This house is one of the early residences in Cottesloe constructed in random limestone masonry and exhibits Victorian forms rather than the later Federation bungalow design idioms. The house has associations with early industry in the district as well as early patterns of settlement.
2005 Review: The house is transitional in style with a plan form that carried from Victorian into the Federation period. The Victorian characteristics are the lower roof pitch and simpler profiling of the gable wall, which is enlivened with decorative Victorian details.

Reason for Inclusion
1. The place is of higher-order local cultural heritage significance, being classified as Category 2 in the Town’s Municipal Inventory (MI).
2. In 2005 the Town undertook a review of MI Category 2 places towards the Heritage List for LPS3. The study recommended that the property be retained as Category 2.
3. The place contributes to the character and amenity of the street, locality and overall district.

History

It was standing when the power mill was in operation early In the century and the road was a dirt track. The Cottesloe
Society has an early photograph . This house needs further research. The current owner has lived there thirty years.
In 1905 it was owned by Mrs C.W. Waltham and rented to J. James electrician in charge of the powerstation. John
Henry James, bom Melboume was manager of Splatt Wall & Co Electric Light Works in Cottesloe from 1903.
Rear portion of site subdivded off and new building constructed on Bird Street frontage.
New carport addedd in 1998 to No. 217 Curtin Avenue as part of subdivison approval requirements.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity intact
Modifications new wall to street

Condition

Poor

Uses

Historic Themes

Creation Date

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