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Lyons Road Report HERITAGE IMPACT STATEMENT 3 Lyons Road Drummoyne No. 3 Lyons Road from Lyons Road in November 2014. WEIR PHILLIPS HERITAGE Level 19 100 William Street Sydney NSW 2011 (02) 9310 1010 December 2014 CONTENTS PAGE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Preamble 1 1.2 Authorship 1 1.3 Limitations 1 1.4 Methodology 1 1.5 References 2 1.5.1 General References 2 1.5.2 Historic Maps and Plans 2 1.5.3 Newspaper Articles 2 1.5.4 Historic Photographs 2 1.5.5 Heritage Inventory Sheets 2 1.5.6 NSW LPI Certificate of Titles 2 1.5.7 Planning Documents 2 1.6 Site Location 3 2.0 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT 3 2.1 Original Occupation 3 2.2 Surgeon Harris’ Five Dock Farm 3 2.3 Samuel Lyons and the Subdivision of Five Dock Farm 4 2.4 The Dawson Estate Subdivision 7 2.5 No. 3 Lyons Road 9 3.0 SITE ASSESSMENT 11 3.1 The Site 11 3.2 The Dwelling 13 3.2.1 Exterior 13 3.2.2 Interior 18 3.3 The Surrounding Area 24 3.3.1 Lyons Road 25 3.3.2 Albert Street 27 4.0 ASSESSMENT OF SIGNIFICNACE 29 4.1 Existing Heritage Listings and Citations 29 4.1.1 The Site 29 4.1.2 Heritage Items in the Vicinity of the Site 30 4.2 Identification of View Corridors 30 4.3 Integrity 31 4.3.1 The Site 31 4.3.2 The Dwelling 32 4.4 Comparative Analysis 33 4.5 Assessment Under NSW Heritage Branch Criteria 35 4.5.1 Criterion (a) 36 4.5.2 Criterion (b) 36 4.5.3 Criterion (c) 37 4.5.4 Criterion (d) 37 4.5.5 Criterion (e) 38 4.5.6 Criterion (f) 38 5.0 HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT 39 5.1 Scope of Works 39 5.2 Method of Assessment 39 5.3 Effect of Work on the Conservation Area 40 5.3.1 Impact of the Proposed Demolition Works 40 5.3.2 Impact of the Proposed New Works 41 6.0 CONCLUSION 47 No. 3 Lyons Road, Drummoyne- Heritage Impact Statement i 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Preamble This Heritage Impact Statement for No. 3 Lyons Road, Drummoyne, New South Wales has been prepared to accompany an application for the demolition of the existing structures on the site and the construction of a new dwelling, with associated landscaping. No. 3 Lyons Road is located within the City of Canada Bay. The principal planning control for the site is the Canada Bay Local Environmental Plan 2013, hereafter referred to as the Canada Bay LEP 2013. The site is not listed as a heritage item by Schedule 5 Part 1 of the Canada Bay LEP 2013. It is, however, located within the Birkenhead and Dawson Estates Conservation Area as defined by Schedule 5 Part 2 of this plan. Under the clauses of Part 5.10 of the Canada Bay LEP 2013 (4) Effect of proposed development on heritage significance The consent authority must, before granting consent under this clause in respect of a heritage item or heritage conservation area, consider the effect of the proposed development on the heritage significance of the item or area concerned. This subclause applies regardless of whether a heritage management document is prepared under subclause (5) or a heritage conservation management plan is submitted under subclause (6). (5) Heritage assessment The consent authority may, before granting consent to any development: (a) on land on which a heritage item is located, or (b) on land that is within a heritage conservation area, or (c) on land that is within the vicinity of land referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), require a heritage management document to be prepared that assesses the extent to which the carrying out of the proposed development would affect the heritage significance of the heritage item or heritage conservation area concerned. The appropriate heritage management document in this instance is a heritage impact statement (HIS). This statement has been prepared at the request of the owners and accompanies plans prepared by Weir Phillips Architects. 1.2 Authorship This statement was prepared by Alice Fuller, B.App.Sc. (CCM), M.Hert.Cons. (Hons.) and James Phillips, B.Sc. (Arch.) B. Arch., M.Hert.Cons. (Hons), of Weir Phillips, Architects and Heritage Consultants. 1.3 Limitations No historical archaeology was carried out on the site. 1.4 Methodology This assessment has been prepared with an understanding of the NSW Heritage Office (now Division) publications Assessing Heritage Significance (2001) and Statements of Heritage Impact (2002). The general references and Council documents listed in Section 1.5 were referred to. Site visits were conducted in 2014. Unless otherwise stated, the photographs contained in this assessment were taken by the authors on these occasions. No. 3 Lyons Road, Drummoyne- Heritage Impact Statement 1 1.5 References 1.5.1 General References • Apperly, Richard, Robert Irving and Peter Reynolds, A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture: Styles and Terms from 1788 to the Present, Sydney, Angus and Robertson 1989. • Fletcher, B.H., ‘Harris, John’, in Douglas Pike (gen. ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 1, Victoria, Melbourne University Press, 1966. • Kelly, Max (ed.), Sydney City of Suburbs, NSW University Press, 1987. • Le Roy, Paul Edwin, ‘Lyons, Samuel’, in Douglas Pike (gen.ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, Victoria, Melbourne University Press, 1967. • Russell, Eric, Drummoyne: A Western Suburbs’ History 1794, 1871, 1971, NSW, Council of the Municipality of Drummoyne, 1971. • Stapleton, Maisy and Ian, Australian House Styles, NSW, The Flannel Flower Press, 1997. 1.5.2 Historic Maps and Plans • Plan of the Parish of Concord, County of Cumberland, New South Wales, undated. NSW Parish Map Preservation Project. • Richardson and Wrench Dawson Estate, Drummoyne: First Subdivision, 1901. National Library of Australia. • Sketch of the Five Dock Farm Estate Shewing the Situation of Lot CXIV, 184? National Library of Australia. • Richardson and Wrench, Dawson Estate, Drummoyne, National Library of Australia, [19]08. 1.5.3 Newspaper Articles • ‘To Capitalists, Gentleman in Public or Private Offices…’, The Sydney Monitor, 28 September, 1836. 1.5.4 Historic Photographs • Aerial photograph over Drummoyne, 1943. Online reference: maps.six.nsw.gov. 1.5.5 Heritage Inventory Sheets • Birkenhead and Dawson Estates Conservation Area. State Heritage Inventory Database No.: 2891198. 1.5.6 NSW LPI Certificate of Titles • Primary Application No. 11404. • Certificate of Title, Volume 1325 Folio 70. • Certificate of Title Volume 1348 Folio 180. • Certificate of Title Volume 1386 Folio 84. • Certificate of Title, Volume 1631, Folio 204. • Certificate of Title, Volume 1998, Folio 59. 1.5.7 Planning Documents • City of Canada Bay Local Environmental Plan 2013. • City of Canada Bay Development Control Plan 2013. • NSW Heritage Office, Assessing Heritage Significance, NSW, Heritage Office, 2001. No. 3 Lyons Road, Drummoyne- Heritage Impact Statement 2 1.6 Site Location No. 3 Lyons Road, Drummoyne, is located on the southern side of the road, between Alexandra Street and St. Georges Crescent (Figure 1). The site also has frontage to Albert Street. The site is identified as Lot 6 D.P. 3771. Figure 1: The Location of the Site. Google Maps. 2.0 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT 2.1 Original Occupation While this assessment does not include an Aboriginal history, it is acknowledged that the Wangal, a Dharug speaking people, were the original occupants of the present day City of Canada Bay. 2.2 Surgeon Harris’ Five Dock Farm The Colony of New South Wales was formally declared at Sydney Cove on 26 January, 1788. Exploration of Sydney Harbour and its surrounds began soon after. In November 1788, Governor Phillip established a second settlement, Rose Hill (later Parramatta). While a rough track, later Parramatta Road, linked Sydney and Parramatta, the Parramatta River was the major artery between Sydney and Parramatta. All land in the Colony was declared to be Crown land. From 16 January 1793, successive colonial governors granted land outside the official boundaries of the Township of Sydney in order to open up the land and augment the Colony’s food supplies. Several grants were made to Royal Marines on the western side of Iron Cove in 1794. These grants proved unsuccessful and later reverted to the Crown. A number of these grants were later included in a substantial grant of 1,500 acres made to Surgeon John Harris on 1 January, 1806, under the hand of Governor Philip Gidley King. This grant, known as Five Dock Farm, comprises the present-day suburb of No. 3 Lyons Road, Drummoyne- Heritage Impact Statement 3 Drummoyne and thus includes the subject site (Figure 2). The designation ‘-farm’ is common on early grants and clearly established the intended use of the land. Figure 2: Detail of a Plan of the Parish of Concord, County of Cumberland, New South Wales, undated and unattributed. NSW Parish Map Preservation Project. The Irish born John Harris, surgeon and public servant, had arrived in Sydney in 1790 as a surgeon’s mate to the New South Wales Corps and was soon appointed surgeon to the Corps. By 1800, Harris was among the forefront of the officer-farmers in the Colony.1 Harris’ many and varied duties often brought him into conflict with his fellow officers and traders. Although notably loyal to Governor King, he was involved in the deposition of Governor Bligh; he later gave evidence at Colonel Johnson’s court martial in London in 1811. Harris resigned his commission and returned to the Colony as a private settler in 1814. Although he continued to play an active role in public affairs, he primarily devoted himself to farming and stock raising.
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