7c. 42 Tyrell Street
Style
Federation Weatherboard cottage
Year
1918
About 42 Tyrell Street
A modest single-storey weatherboard house dating from 1918.
The house is set on a sloping landscaped allotment, bounded at the street by a low masonry wall that was originally the foundation for a fence, possibly of woven wire. The house retains an intact form and displays architectural features that are typical of an early 20th-century cottage. A striking feature is the front veranda which is integrated into the main roof form covered with terracotta shingles.
Lot 25E, part of which is now occupied by this house, and six other lots were purchased by Charles Miekleham in 1901.
In 1918, the Public Trustee sold Lot 25E to Augusta Ellacott, the wife of Frederick William Ellacott who was a foreman carpenter and probably the builder of the house. Sands Directory lists William Ellacott as the occupant in 1920 and 1924. At that time the house was named Devon.
The original allotment had frontage to both Tyrell Street and Western Crescent. The Western Crescent side was an orchard. In 1948, this was subdivided and two fibro-cement cottages were constructed in Western Crescent, one was since replaced. Between 1926 and 1949, the property was owned by members of the Peel family who operated a dairy farm from Tennyson Road and across Peel Park from the 1920s to 1950 when John F. Peel sold his land to Ryde Council for a Council housing scheme.
Location
42 Tyrell Street, Gladesville 2111 View Map
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42 Tyrell Street ,
Gladesville 2111
42 Tyrell Street ,
Gladesville 2111
7c. 42 Tyrell Street