Redbanks Road 32 Willaston
| Place type: | Building |
|---|---|
| Address: | 32 Redbanks Road |
| Town or Locality: | Willaston |
DESCRIPTION:
This is a large low Californian Bungalow with Arts and Crafts style detailing set on a corner allotment. It is constructed of dressed, smooth rock face sandstone with tapestry brick dressings and concrete lintels. The wide gabled roof forms have a low pitch, with the main gable over the verandah addressing the corner. The gables are strapped and roughcast above a dentilled brick band. The windows are timber-framed, double-hung, with leaded top sashes in tripartite groups. A large arched entrance with brick surrounds houses a timber-framed door with sidelights and fanlight. The return verandah is supported on heavy timber columns on stone piers and is enclosed by rendered balusters. A later woven wire fence addresses both street boundaries, with a timber picket gate and lych gate which addresses the corner.
STATEMENT OF HERITAGE VALUE:
Likely built in the late 1920s for Roy Urlwin, carpenter and joiner, and his wife, Elizabeth Laura Urlwin, this villa is high-quality example of an interwar-era bungalow featuring fine timber detailing and joinery. It is significant as development to the portion of land laid out as Waltham in 1878. The generous setting and high aesthetic, addressing the corner, are indicative of the original generous subdivision pattern and the prominence of the corner location on Redbanks Road. The interwar-era bungalow is an intact and excellent example of an uncommon typology, displaying a high level of workmanship in the finely detailed stonework, timber detailing and cast-iron lacework.
BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
The original plan of Gawler Town prepared by Light, Finniss and Co in 1839 was extended as additional townships were added over the next two decades. These townships included: Willaston in 1848; Gawler East in 1849; Bertha in 1850; Evanston in 1853; Gawler North, Gawler West and Bassett Town in 1857; and Gawler South in 1858. Later smaller subdivisions included the Edith/Blanche Street area of Gawler East in 1873, Gulf View in 1876, and Waltham in 1878. A later stage of development saw the creation of Olive Hill in 1891 and Berrett Town in 1910. By the turn of the twentieth century the town boundaries had extended into adjoining farming lands and larger allotments were gradually being subdivided and developed.
Section 692 in the Hundred of Mudla Wirra, County of Gawler, one of said country sections, was first granted in 1853 to Eli Holmes, Publican, and Thomas Lacey, Mining Captain, both of Gawler, and subsequently partitioned with part to Alfred Atkinson, gentleman of Adelaide.
Herman Bernard Scholz, owned a much larger portion of land, including the subject allotment,comprising thirty-one acres between Redbanks Road and Bywaters Avenue. This large holding was subdivided in the early 1900s and successively sold off, with the subject allotment subdivided as its own allotment in 1920. This was transferred soon after in 1 924 to Frederick Hutchinson, labourer, and again in 1926 to Elizabeth Laura Urlwin, wife of Roy Urlwin, carpenter and patternmaker. It is likely that the current dwelling was built at this time.
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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
- Bunyip 12 December 1868 p4
- Gawler Standard 4 Jan 1879 p2
- Hignett & Company
- Gawler Heritage Study Stage 1 December 1981
- LTO Certificate of Title CT1163/171
- LTO Certificate of Title CT772/113
- Place Names of South Australia (accessed 27 February 2020) https://published.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/placenamesofsouthaustralia/W.pdf
- Register 21 December 1866 p4
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