Lyndoch Road 35
| Place type: | Building |
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| Address: | 35 Lyndoch Road |
| Town or Locality: | Gawler East |
DESCRIPTION:
This late-Victorian asymmetric villa displays very high-quality stonework and detailing. The façade features a dressed bluestone, brought to course and tuck-pointed with red brick quoins and dressings, with bluestone side walls, also brought to course and tuck-pointed. The projecting bay is detailed with red-brick gable vent and hood mould to paired narrow windows, and is topped with a turned timber finial. The hip/gable roof is clad with overpainted corrugated galvanised iron and has been extended over a later rendered addition with corrugated metal. Windows are timber-framed and double-hung with arched heads and the door is timber-framed panelled timber with sidelights and fanlight. Two red brick chimneys with moulded caps are evident. The corrugated metal, concave verandah is supported by square timber posts with decorative cast-iron frieze and corner brackets. The elevated concrete verandah is partly enclosed by a Hume balustrade, and is accessed by splayed steps with rendered low walls and piers. A non-original picket fence defines the front boundary.
STATEMENT OF HERITAGE VALUE:
This substantial late-Victorian villa at 35 Lyndoch Road is 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. Finely detailed, the dwelling displays aesthetic merit, design characteristics or construction techniques of significance to the local area, including the use of local building materials including stone, brick and cast iron, displayed in the distinctive ‘Gawler’ idiom.
BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
In 1876, an area of land between East Terrace and Crown Street was subdivided by George Warren to form the area now known as Gulf View. This area comprised the southern half of Section 6, which was part of the Clonlea estate, land originally acquired by John Reid in the 1839 Gawler Special Survey. A number of residences were subsequently built in this area, particularly between 1876- 1920.
The allotment comprises a portion of Allotments 5 and 6 of the subdivision of the portion of Section 6 laid out as Gulf View, Gawler. The property was registered to David Thomas, boilermaker, in June 1896.and subsequently transferred to Frederick Lines, butcher, in April 1901 and thereafter to George Lines, butcher, in April 1905. In January 1918, it was purchased by Elizabeth Bennett (married woman) and transferred to May Isabella Stande, wife of Charles Stande, farmer, in September 1919. The property transferred to Martha Barsch, married woman, in July 1920. The date of construction of the dwelling is unknown but likely to be in the 1890s.
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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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Memories of Lyndoch Road 35
[[Rememberer::Beth Humphries (via Flickr) ]] remembers: My parents, Arthur & Connie Pigdon bought 35 Lyndoch Road about 1955 and we lived there until December 1958. The nameplate over the front steps was 'Ranfurly' - reputedly a racehorse. Dad had removed from either side of the pathway to the front door, two enormous date palms which darkened the rooms. There is, I believe, a closed off cellar under the kitchen. Our family enjoyed the mature fruit trees on the property: apricot, lemon, mandarin, almond and an aged grape vine that grew the length of the fence abutting the house net door. A hedge ran along the Bishop Street fence-line and an open stable abutted the back lane. My father grew most of our vegetables on the western side near the grapevine. The 'Baker Boys' builders added the laundry and bathroom next to the kitchen and built a toilet on the end of the back verandah to replace the pan toilet in a quaint building which also housed the wood shed and gardening equipment. Much repair and renovation, such as removing layers of wallpaper and filling cracks up to 7 cm wide in the walls, was required before moving in. A painter/decorator was employed to tackle the high ceilings and he was very excited when he found, written in pencil, his father's name and date under wallpaper in the front room. He too had been a painter / decorator and it was obvious both father and son had been employed on the same house. Some effort was made at the time to halt rising damp in the stonework on the eastern side.
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