House, 20 Spring Road

Author

City of Gosnells

Place Number

20071

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Location

20 Spring Rd Thornlie

Location Details

Lot 56 on Diagram 51572

Local Government

Gosnells

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1910

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type	Status	Date	Documents	More information
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Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

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Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type	Status	Date	Grading/Management		More information
Type	Status	Date	Category	Description	More information
Municipal Inventory	Adopted	13 Sep 2016	Category 3	Category 3 A place of some/moderate cultural heritage significance to City of Gosnells. No constraints. Recommend: Conservation of the place is desirable. Any alterations or extensions should reinforce the significance of the place, and original fabric should be retained wherever feasible. Encourage retention of the place, and document the place if retention is not possible.

Statement of Significance

House, 20 Spring Road, has historic value as a rare representative example of homes in the Thornlie area prior to the subdivision and development in the 1950s when the area was primarily used for agriculture.

Physical Description

The single storey brick residence has a hipped corrugated iron roof. The verandahs are under the main roof at break pitch, and supported by square timber posts. A face brick front boundary fence obscures views of the place in addition to a mature jacaranda tree within the front setback.

History

This was one of the houses built in Thornlie, before it was developed in the 1950s and named Thornlie. The locality consisted of rural properties and natural bush. Spring Road was named for the local springs and the area was designated as Kenwick at this time.

Information from aerial photographs of 1953 and 1965 indicate that this residence was located within a large landholding that occupied all the land south of Spring Road from Thornlie Avenue on the west to the Canning River on the east. Within the landholding were several farm buildings and cultivated cleared fields and some modest orchard plantings. The original owner or occupier of this land has not been determined.

In September 1954, the 1,715-acre property of the former Thornlie Park Estate, was put up for auction in two lots, and the first development took place on 228 acres of Lot 1, purchased by D. and M. O'Sullivan. The area was aimed mainly at middle-income earners and inner city dwellers. There were forty houses completed by March 1957 and one hundred by May 1958.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: High degree: continual residential
Authenticity: Moderate degree (verandah enclosures are visible)

Condition

Good

References

Ref ID No	Ref Name	Ref Source	Ref Date
	Real Estate Institute of Western Australia; "Suburb Profile- Thornlie".		2007
	McDonald & Cooper;"The Gosnells Story".		1988

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Present Use	RESIDENTIAL	Single storey residence
Original Use	RESIDENTIAL	Single storey residence

Construction Materials

Type	General	Specific
Roof	METAL	Corrugated Iron
Wall	ASBESTOS	Fibrous Cement, weatherboard

Creation Date

15 Jul 2011

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Approved

Last Update

14 Feb 2020

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