House, 53 Anzac Terrace

Statement of Significance

• This place has aesthetic value as a well-executed and intact example of Federation Bungalow style.
• The place has historic value for its association with the development of this area of Bassendean in the early 20th century.
• This place has social value as a demonstration of the form and scale of housing in the 1910s.

Physical Description

A single storey brick and iron dwelling with a rear weatherboard addition. The roof is a high steeply pitched hipped form with vented gablets to the ridge and brick chimneys with rendered corbelling. The façade is of face brickwork with rendered bands corresponding to the top of the door and the window sill height. The façade is symmetrical with a centrally placed timber and glazed door with leaded light panels, side lights and fan lights. 1-over-1 sash windows flank the entrance.The main roof extends down at a broken pitch to form the verandah canopy which extends across the full façade of the house, supported on square timber posts.

History

This portion of Bassendean was subdivided by investor and lawyer and politician Stephen Henry Parker as residential lots in 1898. The take up lots unsold until the turn of the century.
Anzac Terrace was named c1920 in honour of the landing at Gallipoli in 1915. The road was formerly named Railway Terrace and the selection of this road for renaming may have been influenced by local resident Brigadier General Bessell-Browne who lived at 10 Anzac Terrace until 1947. This residence was first occupied, and it is presumed owned in c1916, by James Duff (1884-1968) a Scottish born migrant who arrived in Western Australia in 1912 with his wife Emily Annie (née Teare) (C1884-1970). He served in the AIF in World War One and then returned to Western Australia where he worked as a railway employee for the remainder of his working life. This residence was later occupied by Richard Bird (1922-1925) and then by Ellis Roy Bird and his wife Lillian Doreen Bird until the 1960s. Aerial photographs indicate that the original building envelope has not changed considerably since construction.

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Condition

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