Gawler Terrace 25
| Place type: | Building |
|---|---|
| Address: | 25 Gawler Terrace |
| Town or Locality: | Gawler South |
DESCRIPTION:
This single-storey, double-fronted symmetrical cottage is constructed of overpainted stone rubble with red face brick quoins and dressings. The transverse gable roof is clad with corrugated galvanised iron parapeted to either end with red brick capping and large central chimney with corbelled cap. Windows are timber-framed, double-hung multipaned sashes, with timber panelled entrance doors to either end of the façade, suggesting dual occupancy. The skillion-roofed verandah is supported on timber posts with cast-iron frieze and corner brackets. An addition abuts the south side of the dwelling, and projects forward of the main façade with casement window sashes.
STATEMENT OF HERITAGE VALUE:
The small worker’s cottage at 25 Gawler Terrace, Gawler South, is associated with the strong residential development of suburban Gawler South from the late 1850s on the basis of heightened industrial and commercial activity of the town of Gawler at the time. With the exception of the later addition on the southern side, the cottage is a good and largely externally intact example of a transverse gable worker’s cottage of local stone and brick; unusually, dual entrance doors in the façade indicate the dwelling may have included two distinct residences.
BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
A portion of Section 3, Hundred of Nuriootpa was laid out as ‘Gawler South’ in 1858. The land on both sides of Gawler Terrace had originally been surveyed and subdivided however only the allotments on the western side were ultimately developed, affording views over the Para River to those dwellings which were constructed.
Allotment 322 originally extended between Gawler Terrace and Bridge Street (now Seventh Street) and as a whole was transferred to Robert Sanderson, of Gawler, miner, in 1903 from John Pile and William Pile, Adelaide Stockholders. Part Lot 322 was transferred to Frederick Percival Wasley, Farmer in 1920.
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Acknowledgments
This report has been prepared by the following people:
• Nancy Cromar (Flightpath Architects)
• Deborah Morgan (Flightpath Architects)
• Kate Paterson (Flightpath Architects)
• Douglas Alexander (Flightpath Architects)
The study team would like to acknowledge the assistance of the following people:
• David Petruzzella (Strategic Planner; Town of Gawler)
• Jacinta Weiss (Cultural Heritage Centre Coordinator; Town of Gawler)
• Jane Strange (Senior Development and Strategic Policy Officer; Town of Gawler)
Gawler History Team Inc. thanks:
Flightpath Architects, Ryan Viney and the Town of Gawler for allowing us access to this important document of Gawler History.
www.flightpatharchitects.com.au
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References
- LTO Certificate of Title CT 705/38 1903
- LTO Certificate of Title CT 1191/110 1921
- Presgrave ‘Gawler South’ map 1858.
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