Gawler History

Lyndoch Road 24

Fast Facts
Place type: Building
Address: 24 Lyndoch Road
Town or Locality: Gawler East


Compiled by Jim Taylor: These Certificates of Title only go back to 1907. The house must have been built much earlier than that but I haven't tried to find out when or by whom. I might try looking for "Thomas Oliver Jones of parts beyond the seas, Gentleman" - that might lead somewhere.

The following information has been extracted from the Certificates of Title...

The land that became 24 Lyndoch Road Gawler started out as Certificate of Title Volume 758, Folio 26. The land was Part section 6 of the Hundred of Nuriootpa, County of Light.

CT 758/26 was first issued on 24 Jan 1907 to... Thomas Oliver Jones of parts beyond the seas, Gentleman.

Subsequent owners were...

Transferred on 11 Jan 1908 to Emily May James of Marden. Emily married Henry Knight Dean, caterer of Gawler on 5 Mar 1908.

Transferred on 28 Feb 1931 to Joseph Wood Creyghton & his wife Edith May Creyghton (nee Paternoster). Joseph Wood Creyghton was a fruiterer of Gawler. Joseph Wood Creyghton died on 7 Aug 1956. Edith May Creyghton died on 25 May 1968.

Transferred on 23 May 1969 to Marjorie Jean Taylor and Ivy Mildred Window on. Marjorie and Ivy are the daughters of Joseph and Edith Creyghton.

Transferred on 2 Feb 1970 - Marjorie Jean Taylor's share to Gordon Leonard Henry Shephard and his wife Ann Shephard. Ann Shephard is the daughter of Ivy Mildred Window (nee Creyghton).

On 21 Dec 1976 portion of the land was compulsorily acquired by the Corporation of the Town of Gawler for road purposes. The compulsorily acquired land became part of what is now Hutchison Road. CT 758/26 was cancelled and two new Certificates of Title were issued. CT 4088/789 was issued for the road section. CT 4088/790 for the ballance (24 Lyndoch Road).

Transferred on 20 Dec 1979 to David Dyne Burchell and Mary Elizabeth Burchell (his wife).

Transferred on 26 Feb 1988 to Hermanus Hendrikus Pouwels and Mary Jennifer Pouwels (his wife).

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DESCRIPTION:

This grand Victorian asymmetric villa with projecting bay occupies a generous setting with landscaped grounds. It is of bluestone construction, dressed (picked) and tuck-pointed, to three elevations, with rendered dressings and overpainted brick string course above the verandah. The hipped roof is clad with corrugated metal and features rendered chimneys with moulded caps and a skillion roof to the overpainted rubble, lean-to addition to the rear. Windows are timber-framed, double-hung, and the door is timber-framed, four-panel with leadlights and fanlight. The concave return verandah is of corrugated galvanised iron on square timber posts with moulded caps. A nonoriginal steel fence defines the front boundary. A lean-to of overpainted rubble has been added to the rear.

STATEMENT OF HERITAGE VALUE:

This grand late-Victorian villa 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 1890s. The residence is a fine and substantially externally intact example of a large late-Victorian era villa set in generous grounds and displaying local building materials. The residence is associated with several notable individuals including T O Jones, a prominent citizen of the town, owner of a successful boot and shoe manufactory, and Mayor (1867 and 1871).

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 comprising the westerly portions of sections 6 and 7 of the Special Survey 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.

Thomas Oliver Jones of Gawler, acquired the remaining easterly portions of sections 6 and 7 comprising 55 acres one rood and 39 perches on 22 September 1891 . The land abutted the southern side of the North Para River, and comprised part of the original allocations to John Reid and Whitelaw in the 1839 Gawler Special Survey. Over the following years Jones sold off several small building allotments on the western boundary, together with a right of way to Lyndoch Road. The rest was leased to Richard St Mark Dawes for five years from April 1897.

Arriving in South Australia from Cornwall in 1849, Thomas Oliver Jones, JP, (1830-1909) settled in Gawler in 1853 and became a prominent citizen of the town, owner of a successful boot and shoe manufactory, and elected Town Councillor (1857) and Mayor (1867 and 1871). He purchased land at Gawler in 1853 and by 1878 was residing at ‘Olive Hill Farm’ where his wife Sarah died on 21 October. His home was one of the early substantial landholdings in the town. In 1906 a notice calling for tenders for ‘that well-known property at Gawler, known as Olive Hill, consisting of a well-built house of 14 acres of rich land with stable, coach house and other outbuildings. The property also included two large cottages and underground water tank and ‘many olive trees bearing fruit along the Lyndoch-road’.

Part sections 6 and 7, along with part section 444, Gawler East (adjoining Blanche Street), were transferred to Thomas Alexander Waters of Gawler, chaff merchant and grazier on 24 January 1907. At the same time part section 6, comprising about an acre of land with a frontage to the Government Road (later Lyndoch Road) was transferred to a separate title (still held by Thomas Oliver Jones). This allotment was transferred to Emily May James of Marden, spinster, in 1908. She married Henry Knight Dean, a Gawler baker, shortly afterwards and remained the owner of the property in her own right until 1931 when the title was transferred to Joseph Wood Creyghton of Gawler, fruiterer, and his wife Edith May (a daughter of early Gawler resident James Paternoster), who occupied it until their deaths in the 1956 and 1968 respectively. It was inherited by their two married daughters, Marjorie Jean Taylor and Ivy Mildred Window.

The late Victorian era villa was possibly constructed during T O Jones’ ownership, prior to 1907. A newspaper advertisement was placed for a house meeting its description on 31 July 1891: ‘To Let or For Sale at Olive Hill, Gawler, a new well-built house of nine rooms, with bathroom and pantry, large bay window facing south … half an acre of land or more if wanted… Apply L O Jones Oliver Hill Gawler’. This suggests the possibility that the house was a speculative build.

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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