Jacob Street 21
| Place type: | Building |
|---|---|
| Address: | 21 Jacob Street |
| Town or Locality: | Gawler |
John and Alice Bugg resided at 21 Jacob street, part lot 80, where Alice ran a nursing home. There are many references to this establishment in the newspapers, especially in the birth notices.
Please <click here> to view the Bugg family residence on Jacob Street.
[Researched by Margaret Howse].
DESCRIPTION:
This single-storey, double-fronted late Victorian-era villa is constructed of coursed dressed sandstone with a tuck-pointed finish and rendered, vermiculated dressings. Side walls are of coursed bluestone with red brick dressings. The hipped roof with central gablet is clad with corrugated metal and features typical Federation-era timber detailing to the finial, beaded fascia panel and bargeboard. Windows are timber-framed, double-hung sashes with shutters to side walls. Chimneys are rendered with moulded caps. The concave verandah features a central gablet and is clad with corrugated metal supported on square timber posts with decorative cast-iron frieze and corner brackets. The front fence is an example of earlyFederation-era cyclone wire fencing with timber posts and cast-iron gate.
STATEMENT OF HERITAGE VALUE:
Likely constructed during the late 1870s or early 1880s to replace multiple smaller rateable dwellings on the one allotment, the villa at 21 Jacob Street, Gawler, demonstrates a period of suburban consolidation at the peak of Gawler’s prosperity. The dwelling is a well composed and largely externally intact example of a mid-to-late-Victorian era villa constructed of local stone, brick and cast iron with fine detailing.
BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
The Gawler township was planned by Light, Finnis & Co and laid out by William Jacob in 1839. The Deposited Plan No. 138 of 1863 confirms this plan of Gawler; the original landholder for Allotment 80 is recorded as Henry Dundas Murray, one of the twelve original shareholders of the Gawler Special Survey.
The first available rate assessment book for Gawler, 1858, notes six rateable cottages located on Lot 80, all owned by Thomas Hutchinson. With the exception of one, all were small cottages which addressed Reid Street. Within years, this number rose to eight cottages. This development pattern is recorded until at least 1875, when one larger development of higher value, recorded as ‘House, garden and stable’ is rated in Jacob Street. Around 1882 it would appear that some of these smaller places may have been removed or consolidated, with a larger dwelling on Lot 80 being rated to Mrs Elizabeth Mold. This change in ownership may have been recorded in error as the following year it reverts to Thomas Hutchinson, with Elizabeth Mold listed as owner of a shop/dwelling on the adjacent Lot 81
The first available Certificate of Title dated 1914 states that the subject property (by then Part Lot 80) was held by Alice Bugg, wife of John Bugg, who ran a nursing home from the site. John Bugg, born 1856, the eldest son of Henry Bugg of Mount Barker was married on 9th November 1882 at the Pirie Street Parsonage by Rev. J B Stephenson to Alice (nee McHugh), and soon after came to Gawler. John and Alice were residing in Gawler by 1888 as per rate assessment, living at part lot 60, Finniss Street owned by Charles Freak. John Bugg was a blacksmith and operated a forge at the rear of the Gawler Arms Hotel.
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
- Gawler Rate Assessment Books North Ward
- Hignett & Company Gawler Heritage Study 1981 p.143.
- LTO Certificate of Title CT 1 015/19 1913
- ‘Gawlertown’ map LTO GRO 138/1863
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