20 Tottenham Street, Granville  

Federation period cottage
Constructed: c. 1900-1925
Listings:

Statement of Significance

20 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 on the LEP. There should be no alterations or additions which change the form, style or fabric of the front of the building. The existing open verandah should not be 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 building is a single storey rendered masonry, T shaped, cottage situated in a group of cottages in Tottenham street. The cottage features a front verandah and gabled roof clad in corrugated steel and three rendered brick chimneys and street facing gable roofed wing.

The front gable features a decorative barge board and finial, small vented opening and a three faceted bay window with a hipped concrete tile (imitation slate) roof over and arched timber framed double hung windows. These windows feature a moulded rendered sill which extends around the whole bay and the piers between the windows feature capital mouldings. The front verandah features a bullnose corrugated steel roof supported on two simple timber columns with decorative iron lace brackets and frieze. Rendered masonry and stone steps lead up to verandah floor which features tesselated tiles.

The front façade also features a timber panelled door with timber side panels and glazed top light and a pair of french doors with timber shutters. The southern façade features two timber double hung windows and the north features one single window. The windows have painted stone sills and brick arch heads. The rear of the house features a skillion roofed addition with rendered masonry walls. The southern side of the property features a small driveway that leads to a timber and lattice carport.

There is a cottage style garden has a large pine in the north east corner of the property bordered by modern metal fence. The property has been subdivided and a two storey duplex occupies the rear of the property. Tottenham Street is a small one-way street. To the south is No. 19 (Item 118H). To the north is a large 2 storey late Victorian residence of painted brick walls, slate roof and a two storey verandah (which are being used as offices). Opposite and to the east is the railway.

Modifications / Condition

This building is largely intact and in good condition. At the time of the study the walls and timberwork had been recently painted. The rear features an addition. The brackets and frieze on the verandah are recent. The curtilage of the property has been reduced with the rear wall of the house forming the boundary with the property at the back which features the two storey duplex constructed in 1993/4. There is a new carport to the side of the house.

History

The subject property formed part of 100 acres originally granted to John Harris in 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) including the subject site known as Lots 39 and 40 in 1884. Both lots were subsequently transferred to William Cameron in 1887.

In 1892 the site was purchased by John Mills who in turn sold it in 1901 to Richard Straub. Straub is first listed in the Sands in 1912. Ownership of the property changed again in 1903 to Lachlan McKay and in 1933 to Wheaton Hector. It was not transferred again until 1960 and in 1989 Imece Pty Ltd purchased the site.

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