House, 74 North Road

Statement of Significance

• This place has aesthetic value as a good example of the Inter War style within a garden setting.
• 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 1930s for a professional family.

Physical Description

Extensive single storey, timber framed and weatherboard clad, large Californian bungalow house with a complex, red colorbond hipped roof. Front and side elevations contain timber framed windows with individual colorbond canopies. There is a small gambrel hipped verandah over the main entry. The verandah canopy is supported on timber and masonry columns.

History

The land on which this residence is located was subdivided for residential development by Harry Francis Anstey. He purchased 100 acres of land in Bassendean, or West Guildford as it was then known, in 1897 and the land was divided into 237 lots for sale in 1898. 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. The place first appears in the 1938-39 Rate Books so the date of construction is estimated to be 1938. In the late 1940s, the house was occupied by clerk Peter Pell and his wife Joan Margaret Pell who transferred the house to Mr and Mrs Peters.
The residence has always straddled two blocks and in the early 2000s underwent the first in a series of additions to the north west side of the original house eventually doubling the size of the residence. The roof line was altered to accommodate the new addition. The tennis court on the north east side of the block has been present since the mid-20th century and is likely to be an original feature of the home.

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Condition

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