10 Tottenham Street, Granville  

Federation period cottage
Constructed: c. 1900-1925
Listings: Holroyd Heritage Review 1998; Heritage Conservation Area 1 - Tottenham Street Group

Statement of Significance

10 Tottenham Street is significant as part of a group of small scale residential buildings in Tottenham Street, Granville. The group is largely intact externally and is significant for the variety of building styles and as a good representative example of early cottages dating from around the turn of the century.

The buildings are significant for their form, scale and character which gives a good indication of the socio-economic make up of the community at the time of construction. The group gives a good representative cross section of modest scale residences of the turn of the century period and their location close to Parramatta and the railway provides evidence of the influence of these factors on the early development of Holroyd.

Recommendations

The building should be retained n the LEP. There should be no alterations or additions which change the form, style or fabric of the front of the building. The existing front verandahs should be opened up and not closed in, the roof line should not be modified with roof additions or any future redevelopment which alters the form of the roof from the front.

Description

The painted brick building is divided into two residences and features a gabled roof, clad in corrugated steel with two brick chimneys, and infilled front verandahs across the front of both residences covered by ogee profiled roof. The enclosed verandahs are clad in weatherboards and battened FC sheet and feature door and window openings with a small awning over the front doors.

The brick gabled end walls feature multi-paned timber framed windows topped by brick arches. A gabled wing at the rear of the house is also shared by both residences. The cottage retains the original subdivision block and is set back from the front boundary, with a small front yard divided by a low steel fence and featuring a mature conifer tree and garden.

At the side is a pedestrian width passage leading to the rear of the building. The front boundary features two types of steel fencing including a palisade type. The subject building is situated in a group of similar cottages on Tottenham Street and is opposite the railway. To the north is No. 12 (Item 118D), a red brick and corrugated iron cottage.

Modifications / Condition

The building retains its scale and form but has been heavily modified with an infilled verandah. This infill is intrusive and there are two different characters between the two difference residences. It appears that the house was divided in two after construction. The brick walls and other materials appear stable.

History

The site of the Tottenham Street group is part of 110 acres originally granted to John Harris in February 1794. By 1872 Harris had increased his holding to over 157 acres. Subdivision of the area began after the railway came through in 1855. By 1884 it appears that much of Harris' grant had been subdivided into individual allotments. Thomas James Baker purchased a number of the allotments on Tottenham Street, south of Short Street (present Raymond Street) in 1884, which he sold in 1888 to John Mills, Auctioneer.

It appears that John Mills was declared bankrupt in 1905 and on application to the assignee the land was transferred to Lancelot Lloyd in 1906 and then George Mobbs, Auctioneer. The lots were individually purchased and developed from 1906. The site comprising Lots 29 and 30 in the 1884 subdivision purchased by Thomas Bridge in 1920, who first appears in the Sands in 1922.

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