Jacob Street 23
| Place type: | Building |
|---|---|
| Address: | 23 Jacob Street |
| Town or Locality: | Gawler |
DESCRIPTION:
This large Federation-era asymmetrical villa is constructed of coursed dressed sandstone to the façade, with bluestone side walls with a tuck-pointed finish. The villa features quality Edwardian-style timber detailing throughout. The hipped roof with projecting gables to the front and east side is clad with overpainted corrugated galvanised iron and features ornate timber bargeboards, finial and strapping to roughcast gable ends. Tall chimneys are of face brick with corbelled caps. The return bullnose verandah features a corner gablet and is clad with overpainted corrugated galvanised iron, with identical timber detailing to the projecting gable bays. Turned timber posts with cast-iron frieze and corner brackets support the verandah structure. A rendered stone wall with arched coping and non-original steel gate defines the front boundary.
STATEMENT OF HERITAGE VALUE:
Likely constructed during the late 1890s to replace multiple smaller rateable cottages on the larger allotment, the villa at 23 Jacob Street, Gawler, demonstrates a period of suburban consolidation following the peak of Gawler’s prosperity. The dwelling is a well-composed and largely externally intact example of a Federation-era asymmetrical villa constructed of local stone, brick and cast iron with fine detailing, completed by an early stone and brick wall to the front boundary.
BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
The Gawler township was planned by Light, Finnis & Co and laid out by William Jacob in 1839. The original landholder for Allotment 79 is recorded as Edward Moore, an English proprietor and one of the twelve original shareholders of the Gawler Special Survey; he received 20 lots within the Gawler township allocation.
The first available rate assessment book for Gawler, 1858, notes numerous rateable cottages located on Lot 79. During the 1850s and ‘60s these were owned by James and Thomas Lyons before being sold to John McEwen in the late 1860s. McEwen owned them until his death in 1897, thereafter passing to Charles George Rebbeck. Rebbeck had established a cabinet making and furniture workshop in Murray Street in 1883 and later expanded into undertaking. Rebbeck was also active in local political life, including as Gawler Councillor for East Ward from 1899 to 1900, as Mayor in 1901 and 1902, as Gawler Councillor for South Ward in 1908 and East Ward in 1909 and finally, as Mayor again in 1910 and 1911.
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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
- Gawler Rate Assessment Books North Ward
- ‘Gawlertown’ map LTO GRO 138/1 863
- Hignett & Company Gawler Heritage Study 1981 p.140
- LTO Certificate of Title CT 719/32 1904
- ‘Rebbeck (mayor) Charles George’ in https://gawlerhistory.com/Rebbeck_(Mayor)_Charles_George.
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