Lyndoch Road 10
| Place type: | Building |
|---|---|
| Address: | 10 Lyndoch Road |
| Town or Locality: | Gawler East |
DESCRIPTION:
This single-storey, double-fronted late-Victorian cottage is constructed of dressed stone with rubble side walls, and brick quoins and dressings, all of which have been overpainted. The dwelling includes a parapeted structure with castellated top to the north-east corner. The hipped corrugated galvanised iron roof and return bullnose verandah have been overpainted, with a skillion addition of corrugated metal to the rear. The cottage has a central timber-framed, four-panel door with fanlight and a second side entry from the verandah also with fanlight. Windows are timber-framed, doublehung sashes, with paired narrow windows to the parapeted structure. One overpainted corbelled brick chimney is evident. The verandah is supported on turned timber posts and features a central gablet and cast-iron frieze. An overpainted stone fence, with rendered dressings and coping, defines the front boundary, while a rubble face sandstone wall with cement capping and red brick piers defines the boundary to Edith Street. Stone and brick outbuilding to the rear of the allotment is also of note.
STATEMENT OF HERITAGE VALUE:
This elegant and substantial cottage displays historical, economic or social themes that are of importance to the local area, as an expression of the pattern of development in Gawler as new subdivisions were created in response to the town’s economic growing prosperity and increasing population during the 1870s.
BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
The Town of Gawler was first surveyed and planned by Light, Finnis & Co in 1839 as part of the Gawler Special Survey sponsored by a consortium of wealthy investors including Henry Dundas Murray, John Reid & others. The original town plan devised by Light and laid out by William Jacob comprised 240 acres, made up of 100 acres of allotments (as 200 half-acre allotments) and 140 acres of streets, parklands, city squares, churches, cemeteries and other public places. The emergence of successful local industries, and the completion of the Gawler Railway connecting with Adelaide in 1857 led to further significant growth of the township, with a series of new subdivisions opening up to the north, south, east and west. During the mid to late nineteenth century, Gawler enjoyed a prosperous period as South Australia's second most important town.
John Reid, one of the principal investors in the Gawler Special Survey and Gawler’s first white settler, established ‘Clonlea’ a sheep run and farm on his 630 acres on the North Para River. Unfortunately he borrowed heavily against his property from William Paxton, and after he experienced substantial losses due to drought and disease in his flock Paxton foreclosed on the loan and took over most of the land. The remnant 40 acres of the Reid estate was subsequently inherited by his daughter Eliza Sarah Mahony. In 1873 auctioneer J C Wilkinson announced the forthcoming sale of 50 suburban blocks created by the subdivision of ‘Mrs Mahony’s paddock’ in Gawler East.
Located in the Hundred of Nuriootpa and the County of Light, this property comprises Allotment 275 of a portion of section 4 laid out as Gawler East. The property is bounded by both Edith Street and Lyndoch Road. The allotment was registered in March 1877 to Arthur William Johnston, butcher. At this time it comprised land only with a rateable value of £5. In 1878, Johnston fenced the land and the following year sold the block to Thomas Hodgson, butcher. Ownership was transferred to Thomas Waters, farmer, in November 1879 and over the next 4 years a substantial home (rateable value £20) was built on the site which Waters owned until 1912 when ownership transferred to Melvina Schneider, wife of Johann Schneider in March of that year.
Within a few months the property had changed hands again, being purchased by Salim Attiah, merchant, in October 1913. It was then transferred to Alexander Latter, business manager, in July 1918 and thereafter to Frederike Duldig, wife of Johann Duldig, shop assistant, in December 1919.
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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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