House, 14 Devon Road

Statement of Significance

• This place has aesthetic value as a well-executed and predominantly intact example of the Inter War Californian Bungalow style.
• The place has historic value for its association with the development of this area of Bassendean in the Inter War period.
• This place has social value as a demonstration of the form and scale of housing for working families in the Inter War period.

Physical Description

Single storey brick house with hipped roof. The façade has tuck pointed brick dado terminating at sill height with the brick laid in stretcher bond to the majority of the dado and vertical stretchers for the top course. The remainder of the elevation is painted render. The side elevations are entirely painted render. The house is of asymmetric plan form to the façade with a centrally placed entrance, slightly recessed, flanked by two window arrangements each consisting of a large central fixed pane with two timber framed
casements. All windows have leaded glazing. The roof is hipped with a separate hipped verandah canopy to the south-east section of the façade and tall rendered chimney projecting through the eastern plane of the roof. The canopy is supported on rendered masonry columns which have a narrower upper section. A rendered brick balustrade extends between the columns incorporating a brick decorative design detail.

History

In 1897, land speculator, parliamentarian and government assayer, Henry Anstey purchased a large parcel designated as Location Q which he subdivided and offered for sale under the name 'Bindaring Estate'. Devon Road was part of this estate and the name owes its origin to the county in England. From the available information this house was built in 1937 for Neil Michael Gray (c1909-1988) and his wife Mabel. The Gray's lived at the house until the early 1940s. Prior to World War Two Neil Gray worked as a bus driver and then enlisted to serve with the RAAF and became skilled as an aircraft engineer. He continued in
this profession after the war. Aerial photographs of the site indicate that there have been a series of structures constructed in the rear of the property since the 1960s. In the late 1990s an addition was made to the rear of the main building and the roof was reclad in Colorbond c2000. There have been minor additions to the rear of the building since that time including the construction of a garage.

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