Eighth Street 26
| Place type: | Building |
|---|---|
| Address: | 26 Eighth Street |
| Town or Locality: | Gawler South |
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26 Eighth street is a heritage villa set atop the hill, with the block extending down to Eighth Street. The original name of this site when surveyed was 'Part Lot W, Water Street, Gawler South' (a small north western corner of the allotment was on the title with Lot X to the north - 28 Eighth Street). (See Frearson's Plan of Gawler Town c1870 for the allotment locations)
Extract from "Town of Gawler Heritage Review 2020" - 26 Eighth Street[1]
DESCRIPTION:
This single-storey, double-fronted asymmetrical villa with projecting bay is constructed of random coursed sandstone with a tuck-pointed finish and rendered, vermiculated quoins and dressings. Side walls are of rubble sandstone and the hipped roof form with projecting hip is clad with corrugated metal. Windows are timber-framed double-hung sashes and the timber-framed door features sidelights and leadlight glazed fanlight. Chimneys are rendered with moulded caps. The bullnose verandah is clad with corrugated metal on circular castiron posts with cast-iron frieze panels, fringe and corner brackets. A low roughcast wall with overpainted brick capping and piers and cast-iron panels, is splayed to central steps with a wrought-iron gate, defining the front boundary.
STATEMENT OF HERITAGE VALUE:
The dwelling at 26 Eighth Street, Gawler South, demonstrates the marked increase in quality residential development in the immediate area being bolstered by Gawler’s prosperity and attracted by the establishment of local industry, specifically the adjoining business, D and RJ Fotheringham Cordial Factory. The fine and substantially intact late-Victorian era residence displays distinctive local materials and typology, complete with stone and cast iron front fence. The residence was constructed for prominent local businessman, David Fotheringham, director of the adjoining cordial factory.
BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
Section 3 of the Gawler Special Survey was originally granted to Henry Dundas Murray and E Moore in 1839. A portion of Section 3, Hundred of Mudla Wirra was laid out as ‘Gawler Town South’ in 1858. This followed completion of the main railway to Gawler and Station, located nearby to the west in 1857. According to the original plan of subdivision and Certificate of Title, Eighth Street was originally named ‘Water Street’. While the eastern side of the street was largely developed with smaller cottages, the western side evolved to include a number of substantial dwellings on the larger allotments between the industrial sites.
It is unclear who was the original purchaser of the allotment, however Part Lot W was transferred to David Fotheringham, of Gawler, Cordial Manufacturer, in June 1885. Mary Ann Fotheringham, David’s widow was transferred the property in 1901 as executor, after which it passed to Harry Francis Rowe, Engineer of Gawler South. [Addition: Harry resided there with his family until his death, at home, on 28 March 1935, aged 71. The property was passed to his widow Anita Hitchins Rowe upon his death.][2]
David Fotheringham was born in Gawler in 1858, the son of Alexander Fotheringham and nephew of Gawler brewers James, Thomas and Robert Fotheringham. A Fotheringham family business, Gawler Brewery, had been established by James Fotheringham in 1846 and operated from a site in Julian Terrace, adjacent to the Bridge Street crossing of the Para River. James Fotheringham had been one of the twelve original Proprietors of the Gawler Special Survey of 1839 and had huge land and business interests in the district. Around 1878 David and his brother, Robert John Moir Fotheringham, developed a cordial and aerated water factory in Water Street, Goose Island, known as D and RJ Fotheringham Cordial Factory. The men had purchased Lot 2, the site of Roediger’s Flax Mills, located only 4 lots to the north east of the subject property; this placed David Fotheringham conveniently close to his business premises. David died in 1898 at the young age of forty and the business was sold in 1902.
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.
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References
- ↑ Flightpath Architects (2020) Town of Gawler Heritage Review, Adelaide, South Australia. For full acknowledgements see: https://gawlerhistory.com/index.php/Gawler_Heritage_Review_2020
- ↑ Certificate of Title 453/5
- Henderson Fotheringham Family History in South Australia
- LTO Certificate of Title CT 453/5
- Phillips Pilkington Gawler’s Industrial Buildings 1839-1939.
- Presgrave ‘Gawler South’ map 1858.
- Whitelock Gawler: Colonel Light’s Country Town
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