Beverly Hills Railway Station Group
Beverly Hills Railway Station GroupEast Hills rail lineLot 10, DP 1211599The Railway Commissioners chose the name Dumbleton for the proposed new station in November 1929.[1] The station appears to have been built late 1929 or early 1930.Electrification of the Tempe-East Hills line initially ended at Kingsgrove, and motor trains ran for the rest of the way.[2] The first section of the line was opened on 26 September 1931. The section between Kingsgrove and East Hills was opened on 19 December 1931 by Mr McGirr, Minister for Transport.[3]Sticks of gelignite were found on the line between Kingsgrove and Dumbleton in May 1934, thought to have been placed there by some individual with a grudge against the railways.[4] An earlier train had run over the gelignite which had failed to explode.In November 1934 police raided an illegal cock-fighting enclosure near Dumbleton Station.[5] Ten men and five fighting cocks were taken into custody.The name of Dumbleton Station changed to Beverly Hills Railway Station in August 1940.[6][1] Sydney Morning Herald 21 November 1929, p15.[2] Sydney Morning Herald 16 September 1931, p6.[3] Sydney Morning Herald 21 December 1931, p11.[4] Sydney Morning Herald 8 May 1934, p9.[5] The Sun 5 November 1934, p9.[6] Sydney Morning Herald 23 August 1940, p5.
Federation style weatherboard house, early outbuildings and spatial qualities of the setting
Federation style weatherboard house, early outbuildings and spatial qualities of the setting71 Edgbaston RoadLot 36, DP 13578No 71 Edgbaston Road is a Federation cottage on Lot 36, DP13578 and is of local significance.It is listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Georges River Local Environmental Plan 2021 and was previously listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012.
Late Federation house “Woodville” and setting
Late Federation House “Woodville” and Setting 79 Edgbaston Road Lot B, DP 377604 No. 79 Edgbaston Road, Blakehurst, is a locally significant residence known as “Woodville”, occupying Lot B, DP 377604. It is listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Georges River Local Environmental Plan 2021, and was previously listed in the Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012, recognising its contribution to the architectural and historical character of the area. Built during the late Federation period, the house reflects the stylistic transition from Victorian formality to the more relaxed and decorative Federation style, which flourished in Australia between 1890 and 1915. Federation architecture was deeply influenced by British movements such as the Queen Anne revival, but adapted to suit Australian materials, climate, and identity. There are considered to be twelve sub-styles within Federation Architecture. These include Queen Anne, Bungalow, Arts and Crafts, Free Classical, Anglo-Dutch, Gothic, and more. [1] Typical features of Federation homes include: Red brick walls with contrasting trims Terracotta-tiled roofs with decorative gables Verandahs with timber fretwork Leadlight windows, circular motifs, and bay windows Symbolic elements such as the rising sun, Australian flora and fauna, and Art Nouveau detailing “Woodville” likely incorporates several of these elements, contributing to its visual appeal and heritage value. Its garden setting enhances the picturesque quality typical of Federation homes, which were often designed to harmonise with their natural surroundings. References 1. Federation architecture, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_architecture
Interwar house “Hilcrest” and setting, including front fence
Interwar house “Hilcrest” and setting, including front fence130 Stoney Creek RoadLot 7, DP 18860No 130 Stoney Creek Road, Hilcrest, is a brick cottage on Lot 7 DP18860 and is of local significance. It is listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Georges River Local Environmental Plan 2021 and was previously listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012.
Timber Federation period house “Devonia Farm” and setting
Timber Federation period house “Devonia Farm” and setting136 Stoney Creek RoadLot 1, DP 20704No 136 Stoney Creek Road, formerly Devonia Farmhouse, is a brick cottage on Lot 1 DP20704 and is of local significance.It is listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Georges River Local Environmental Plan 2021 and was previously listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Kogarah Local Environmental Plan 2012.It sold in early 2013 and again in 2020.It was built by Robert Jonas, whose wife Lucy came from Stockland, DevonHouseholder in 1943 was a Mrs Mack.The property is State Heritage listed. Information on the listing:Devonia is a single-storey post-war American Colonial style house of weatherboard on a masonry base. The main body of the house is a simple rectangle with a steeply pitched gabled roof with the ridge parallel to the street. The symmetrical façade features two adjoining gables projecting over bay windows with single large panes. All 4 gable ends are decorated with simple barge boards, and timber shingles which continues down onto awnings. At the front, this extends to also cover the small centrally placed porch. The front door has two panelled side lights and antique brass lamp to one side. To the rear of the house, is a smaller flat roofed section. The house is surrounded with a simple grassed garden, with some small shrubs and flowers along the rendered brick fence.Purchased as lot 18, section D of the 3rd subdivision of Penshurst Park Estate by Lucy Jonas in 1901, this land was further subdivided in the 1930s. One block was bought by Cecil Selwyn Robert Bentley, builder, from this subdivision, and developed the block with the current house in the post-war period. He sold the property to James Frederick Skelly, railway employee in 1954. It was then sold to Joan Patricia Dawson, married woman, in 1971.[1]The property (house and garden setting) known as Devonia at 136 Stoney Creek Road, Beverly Hills is of historic significance to the local area for the evidence it provides of the pattern of development associated with the process of Beverly Hills’ transition from an area of undeveloped bushland to a suburban cultural landscape. The house has remained substantially intact since its construction c.1901, likely by Robert Jonas, an English carpenter-joiner whose wife Lucy Jonas was the first registered owner of the property. The house is of locally notable style and detailing and is a rare surviving example of timber cottage construction from the turn of the 20th century. Devonia’s physical curtilage has been reduced since the original one-acre Lot 1 of Section D of the Penshurst Park Estate (DP3421), but Devonia was placed at the western edge of its long, narrow lot and the 1947 re-subdivision into nine similarly sized properties contributes to the evidence of the pattern of the second, more intensive suburbanisation layer of residential development of the area. The setting today reads as consistent with this layer, with the sparse landscaping consistent with the character visible in the 1943 aerial photographs of the area and allowing clear views of the notable physical qualities of the house. The historic heritage values of the property are demonstrated by both the house and its setting. Together they satisfy the criteria for historic heritage significance at the local level.[1] Land Title Office: 1376-93; 9172-6
Salt Pan Creek sewage aqueduct
Salt Pan Creek sewage aqueductBehind 9 Elwin StreetSalt Pan Creek Sewage Aqueduct is described on Sydney Water’s inventory as follows: “The construction of the Salt Pan Creek Aqueduct, completed in 1962, was a major civil engineering project for the Water Board in the late 1950s. The crossing of this tributary of the Georges River provided for the extension of the North Georges River Sewer submain to the municipalities of Bankstown, Liverpool, Fairfield and Holroyd, all of which experienced a marked population growth from the commencement of the 1950s. The aqueduct is a major element of the historic built environment of the local government areas of Canterbury and Bankstown and provides a focus for an understanding of the historical development of the local area in particular for the post-Second World War era. The construction techniques of pre-fabricated reinforced concrete, lift slab construction, and weld steel pipework were emerging technologies at the time of the aqueduct’s design and construction. Elements of significance include ongoing use, technologies of construction, the height and expanse of the structure, and setting across the creek (inclusive of views).”[1]It is accessed off the Clarendon Road Reserve, Riverwood.See McIllwraith, J F Report on North Georges River Submain (1967).It is listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Georges River Local Environmental Plan 2021 and was previously listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012. [1] Sydney Water website, item 4570858, accessed 26 July 2018.
Interwar house “Rose Lea” and setting
Interwar house “Rose Lea” and setting589 Forest RoadLot 4, DP 398982No 589 Forest Road, ‘Rose Lea’, an inter-War house, is listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Georges River Local Environmental Plan 2021 and was previously listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012.
Holy Trinity Anglican Church
Holy Trinity Anglican Church671 Forest Road, also known as 8–12 Neilson AvenueLot 567, DP 1088167Church of England services began at Peakhurst in 1909 at the School of Arts Hall. A subscription list to erect a church was begun in 1912.[1]The foundation stone of Holy Trinity Church of England at Peakhurst was laid on 11 November 1916 by the Dean of Sydney.[2] A procession moved from the School of Arts to the Church. The contractor for the building work was C C Paterson. The architect was Charles Halstead.[3]The consecration and opening of the church took place on 10 March 1917.[4]Additions to the church in 1942 completely transformed the building. The additions comprised a new chancel, vestries and hall, costing £1,000. Archbishop Mowll dedicated the additions on 13 June 1942.[5] The builder was G T Cross (Alderman of Hurstville Council). Plans for the additions had been drawn up back in WWI.The church was a rectangular plain brick building with a tiled gable roof. It featured simple brick buttresses and painted render detailing. The foundation stone in the porch is inscribed: “21.3.1942 set by Archbishop of Sydney The Most Reverend H W K Mowll DD, W J Siddens Rector.”The establishment of the Parish of Peakhurst and Lugarno took place in 1974, and was marked by a special service attended by the Governor of NSW, Sir Roden Cutler.[6]The church, at 671 Forest Road, was listed on the Hurstville LEP. It is now part of the Uniting Nunyara Peakhurst complex of sheltered housing.[1] Propeller 23 August 1912.[2] Propeller 17 November 1916.[3] Propeller 25 August 1916, p1.[4] Propeller 23 March 1917.[5] Propeller 18 June 1942, p3.[6] St George Leader 9 October 1974.
“The Gardens on Forest: Clovelly” and grounds
“The Gardens on Forest: Clovelly” and grounds764 Forest RoadLot 8, DP 659072The building at 764 Forest Road, Peakhurst, was constructed c1883 for Robert Newell, a Newtown businessman. Originally it was set back from Forest Road on an eight-acre block. It was called Collaroy, and used timbers salvaged from the grounded ship SS Collaroy. Newell was Alderman on Hurstville Council 1893-1895 for Peakhurst Ward. He sold the property on 4 September 1916 to Emanuel Silva for £1,550.A description of the property in 1923 described Collaroy as ‘containing eight acres of land, together with a brick cottage of six rooms, kitchen, laundry, pantry, stables, outhouses etc erected thereon, the whole being enclosed by wire and paling fences.’ It was purchased by the Assurance and Thrift Association Ltd on 10 December 1924, and they sold it on 2 April 1947 Virgile Frittoles of Peakhurst, chef. It was subsequently used for functions such as wedding receptions. Agnes Buckley purchased the property on 21 August 1956, and sold to Rosebowl Holdings on 4 May 1973.The house is described in the Hurstville Historical Society Heritage Register 1986. It is a single-storey masonry cottage unsympathetically extended. The original cottage retains a steep gable roof form with half-hip ends.[1]The building is now known as Gardens on Forest and is used as a reception venue; it was previously known as Roslyn Gardens Function Centre from c1970.LTO Primary Application 22456; DP 12997 Lot 8, Torrens Title Vol 3660 Fol 168, Vol 13908 Fol 247.It is listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Georges River Local Environmental Plan 2021 and was previously listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012. [1] See Heritage Assessment, 764 Forest Road, Peakhurst, by Katalin Erdelyi, Heritage Advisor, K-Design.
Wesleyan Chapel
Wesleyan Chapel800 Forest RoadLot 376, DP 36537; Lot 1, DP 196789The Wesleyan Chapel at 802 Forest Road, Peakhurst, on the corner of Bonds Road, was built c1879 by voluntary labour on land donated by Innes Scott. The single-roomed chapel was built to service a Wesleyan congregation which had been in the district from 1856. It also served as a public school.M Stacy noted in 1986: “It is rectangular in plan with an attached entrance portico. It is built from locally-cut sandstone blocks, and features sandstone buttresses supporting the side walls. The building and portico have pitched gable roofs of corrugated iron. A rose window is constructed in the front wall. All the other windows are of a pointed arch type. Interior stonework has been painted. Original stop chamfered roof beams are intact as is the timber ceiling lining.Extensions have been added to the rear of the building to link it to a rear hall.”The church is listed locally, and is the only surviving church building of this era in the Hurstville area.The chapel’s organ was made in 1881 in Boston, USA and was donated to the church c1894. It is of dark mahogany with one manual of 3½ octaves.A new stone fence and memorial gates were constructed in 1937 to mark the 80th anniversary of the church in Peakhurst.[1] This fence and associated plaques were later moved to the Uniting Church at Lugarno.The centenary of Methodism in Peakhurst was commemorated in 1956.The last service at the church was on 31 October 1976. The chapel was subsequently sold to the Association of Children with Learning Disabilities.A piece of sandstone with the inscription 1856, which had been affixed to the original 1850s church, was fixed above a window at the entrance to the church. It was smashed by vandals in 2001.[2][1] Propeller 18 March 1937.[2] St George Leader 8 February 2001, p11.
Victorian Villa cottage and setting
Victorian Villa cottage and setting287 Stoney Creek RoadLot 1, DP 593184On 3 June 1880, John Hill, a dancing master of Sussex Street, Sydney purchased six acres thirteen and one half perches of land in Stoney Creek Road for £145. He built a house on the land, possibly about 1886. The house was built at a time when the Kingsgrove area had a rural character. Several orchards had been established along Stoney Creek Road, there were slaughter yards on the opposite side of the road, and an ostrich farm on an adjoining property. John Hall probably saw it as a rural retreat.After he died in 1892, his wife inherited the property and rented to Donald Finlayson. The Hurstville Council rates book of 1892 showed a four-room brick cottage on six acres of land. Mrs Hall died in 1910. Arthur George Barnard, a builder of Kogarah, purchased the property on 5 June 1911. He subdivided the property, with Smiths Avenue running through the middle of it, as shown on a new certificate of title dated 3 January 1924. Lots 1, 2 and 21, which included the house, were sold to John Henry Forbes, a storekeeper in 1925. The property passed to Frederick F Porter, accountant in 1939 and was sold to William Cooper of Bexley, a builder in 1944. He subdivided the land around the house and then sold the house to Albert Young, bread carter in 1950. Following his death in 1968 Stephen Kaiser of Kingsgrove, a postal officer, became the owner of the house.LTO Primary Application 17260; Torrens Title Vol 2335 Fol 145; Vol 3750 Fol 50; Vol 5522 Fol 57; Vol 5671 Fol 149-150. DP 593184 Lots 1-2. Torrens Title Vol 1351, Fol 90-91.See Hurstville Historical Society Heritage Register 1986, item 38.It is Lot 1, DP 593184. It is listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Georges River Local Environmental Plan 2021 and was previously listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012.
Peakhurst Public School
Peakhurst Public School was established in 1871. The first teacher, Mr Innes Scott, was appointed on 1 September 1871, and the local patrons were J Peake and W Corbett. [1] It became a full public school on 13 October 1873. The enrolment was 47.At first the school met in the Wesleyan chapel, but in February 1877 a new school was built on a site given to the Council of Education by Innes Scott on the corner of Bonds Road. It was a sandstone building, erected by Messrs Rose, Paterson & Wicks. William Crawford succeeded Scott in 1884. There is a photo of him with the class of 1891 in the centenary booklet, p13. See also photo GRLS22-108.A classroom was added to the building in 1887.Joseph Miller became Headmaster in March 1897 and stayed until 1904.In 1923 it was decided to build a new school, on the present site on Bonds Road, initially covering three acres. The foundation stone of the new school was laid on 14 September 1928. One of the stone steps from the old school was used as the foundation stone, bearing the inscription ‘AD1876’. The new school building was opened on 6 April 1929 by Inspector of Schools Mr McDowell.[2] It cost some £10,000 to erect. Tanner and Middleton donated the flagpole. The headmaster was Joseph Woods; two of his predecessors, Mr Gettens and Major Gallagher attended the opening. Mr Olds was the president of the Peakhurst Parents’ and Citizens’ Association.Selwyn Hinder was principal from 1935 to 1949; he died in 1951 aged 65.[3] He was active in the community and was chairman of St George Hospital 1942-43.In 1953 the school motto, ‘Honour and Labour’ was chosen.The Infants’ School was officially opened on 15 August 1955 by R J Heffron, MLA.A commemorative booklet, Centenary 1871-1971 Peakhurst Public School was published by the Peakhurst P&C Association. It lists the headmasters up to the appointment of Jack Deasey in 1969. The school marked its centenary with a reunion of former pupils on 25 September 1971.[4]The school celebrated its 125th anniversary on 14 September 1996.[5][1] Centenary 1871-1971 Peakhurst Public School, p9.[2] Propeller 12 April 1929, p1.[3] Propeller 10 May 1951, p1.[4] St George Leader 22 September 1971.[5] St George Leader 10 September 1996.
