Daceyville - NSW's first Garden Suburb

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Daceyville Garden Suburb Urban Conservation Area, Daceyville, NSW , Australia

Photographs	Joffre Crescent Daceyville	Daceyville Garden Suburb	23 Col Braund Cresent
List	Register of the National Estate
Class	Historic
Legal Status	Registered (14/05/1991)

From Australian Heritage Database

• Daceyville is situated about 6-8 km South of Sydney City on 336 acres between Gardeners Road and EastGardens Shopping complex (see map at end).

  Map of Daceyville, NSW 2032

• Daceyville was the first State Housing Project in New South Wales (NSW), built as a model village of workmen's homes, as an example to shire and municipal councils - a rare social and architectural experiment of great influence on Australian cottage and public estate housing in the twentieth century.
• Initially designed by architect W H Foggitt under George McRae, Dacey Garden Suburb was intended to occupy 443 acres with a density of seven cottages per acre. It was to be a self contained residential unit and made provision for shops, schools, churches, amusement halls, police and fire stations and a technical college. No sites were set aside for industrial or manufacturing activity.
• In 1912 John Sulman, in association with John Hennessy, made the first in a series of modifications to the suburb plan, suggesting the location of the major public buildings.
• W H Foggitt designed the first houses, whose construction materials, colours and forms - hipped and gabled roofs, overhanging eaves with exposed projecting rafters and deeply recessed verandahs, we now call Federation Style.
• Government architect William Foggitt revised Daceyville's blueprint in 1914. If you stand on Cook Avenue today, facing away from the Kingsford roundabout, Sulman and Hennessey's Daceyville lies to your right and Foggitt's revised suburb to your left.
• These latter streets are smaller, curvier, and 'friendlier' than their predecessors. Explore Foggitt's Daceyville further, and you will come across Colonel Braund Crescent, Australia's first planned cul-de-sac.

Daceyville Picture Theatre

Maintenance depot, Dacey Gardens

These photos are from the NSW State Records Stream on Flickr

Daceyville house, 1913 - rent 18s 6D

Daceyville house, 1913 - rent 18s 6D

Prize plan type (semi-detached pairs - house and cottage). Cottage let at 18s [shillings] 6D [pence] per week, house let at 21s [shillings] per week, Dacey Garden suburb Dated: 1913

Daceyville house, 1913 - rent 18s

Daceyville house, 1913 - rent 18s

No.1 Design, let at 18s [shillings] per week, Dacey Garden suburb Dated: 1913

And these photos are from Wikipedia on Daceyville suburb

Gardeners Road semi-detached cottages

Here are original views from the brochure Dacey Garden Suburb: issued by the Housing Board of NSW in 1918 and held at the National Library: nla.aus-vn4931808-p.pdf





Other web links:

• http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/daceyville

• Daceyville Garden Suburb Urban Conservation Area, Daceyville, NSW , Australia

"The Housing Department of NSW has recently undertaken major infill developments, in which great pains were taken to design in harmony with the older buildings and rehabilitation of 170 existing cottages.

"Sympathetic new buildings have been sited in land taken from former back yards of older houses in order to increase residential density, but this has changed the original subdivision of the land."

• Such as this:

Daveyville Endeavour Apartments

• Finally, a map of the Dacey Garden Suburb

Daceyville - the vision

Chadwick House Eaglemont Victoria

Harold Desbrowe Annear's Chadwick House.Stage 1

by Peter Crone Architects

- National Australian Institute of Architects Award for Heritage Architecture

- The Australian Institute of Architects John George Knight Award for Heritage (VIC)



 
Page: Federation Arts and Crafts Architecture

Peter Crone reflects on twenty years of living in and remaking Harold Desbrowe-Annear’s Chadwick House.

Text Peter Crone (below all illustrations)
Photography Peter Bennetts, Patrick Bingham-Hall
Published in Architecture Australia May June 2009

N°1 Stair in the Chadwick House from entry hall down to the lower level. The storage box/seat can be seen under the bay window. Redwood wall cladding has been restored.

N°2 Archival image showing the three Desbrowe-Annear houses at The Eyrie.

N°3 Entry elevation, showing the restored colour palette. The garden is affected by drought.

N°4 Entrance verandah, with views to the east framed by the swagged ogee arch and slatted balustrade. The hopper and sash windows are seen by the door.

N°5 The leadlight has been attributed to artist Blamire Young, a friend of Desbrowe-Annear.

N°6 The house as purchased by Peter and Jane Crone in 1988, with its black-and-white “pseudo-Tudor” colour scheme.

N°7 The north-west corner, showing the disparate windows and door added prior to the Crones’ purchase.

N°8 The main living room as found – the lower walls covered in fibrous plaster, doors and window painted in gloss enamel, and the fireplace with brick front and mirrors above.

N°9 Peter Crone at work. Eleven sliding sashes and four hopper windows had to be removed to allow complete paint stripping.

N°10 Removing the false ceiling in the large downstairs room revealed the original exposed Oregon beam structure and Californian redwood lining below the upstairs jarrah floorboards. The whole ceiling area void had been packed with sawdust, possibly for insulation.

N°11 “A well deserved glass of wine after another day of toil.” The kitchen is in its 1950s state, with original windows gone and masonite covering the original timber wall lining.
N°12 Completed living room. The detail for the fireplace mantle came from two pieces discovered under the house and from the original backing board, found behind the mirror. The blue plaster is an exact match to the original colour, which was identified from a plaster sample and paint on top of the plate rail.		N°13 Dining room. Minimal damage made this the most original room in the house. Fireplace details matched the living room and could be used as a template. A built-in server with small hatch to the kitchen is seen to the right.

N°14 Sash and hopper windows in the spare bedroom. The centre sash is open, with sash cords visible on the other windows. The lower frame of the hopper coincides with the upper sash member. Behind the rocking chair is the original brick hearth, the only clue to the fireplace. The brick arch exists behind the panelling. The mantle will be rebuilt in the future.