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1. 400 Marrickville Road, Marrickville
   DA201700430
   The Marrickville Heritage Society is very concerned that the proposed alterations and additions to ‘Gateshead’ at 400 Marrickville Road will overall diminish the heritage significance of the property and the David Street Conservation area, and requests that Council not approve the development in its current form.
   The existing large single storey Federation style house, known as ‘Gateshead’ was built in 1912 for James Wall to a design by S. H. Buchanan & McKay Architects. It largely retains its original period detailing and form, including a variety of Arts & Craft features drawn from English Vernacular (bay windows, half-timbering) and Art Nouveau features - tapered chimneys, incised floral fretwork and scenery leadlights. While the rear section of the house is somewhat simpler than the Marrickville Road façade, it is largely as originally constructed in 1912, with a series of double hung window punched in the side walls. The house has many stylistic features that are evident in the surrounding period houses of the Marrickville Road, Livingstone Road and David Street precincts, and which warrants the inclusion of ‘Gateshead’ in the David Street Heritage Conservation Area (HCA), under Marrickville LEP 2011.
   The proposal will require the demolition of the 1912 rear single storey wing of the house, and its replacement with a stark flat roofed two storey box. The extension is to be constructed in highly contemporary materials, including vertical panels of ribbed Colorbond sheeting, in the currently inescapably fashionable dark grey colour “Monument”. The proposed demolition and new extension are not in keeping with the core heritage values and elements for the David Street HCA that are set out in Marrickville Development Control Plan 2011 (section 8.2.33.2): the aesthetic values of the HCA and its component streetscapes are derived from the high quality of Federation design and detailing in houses and their settings and the consistency of subdivision pattern, setbacks, built forms, roof volumes, materials, detailing and garden spaces.
   Further, the DCP specifically states that ‘The core period of heritage significance is 1890-1915. Any buildings or significant elements of the fabric from this or any earlier period must be retained and maintained (Section 8.2.33.6).’
   While the Society is supportive of the proposal to restore the lych gate, the replacement fences and garden walls should adopt the original detail, to maintain consistency with these existing streetscape features throughout the HCA.
   The Society requests that Council not approve this proposal because of the loss of original fabric entailed in the demolition of the rear wing of this important house, and its replacement with a highly contemporary and jarring extension.
   Yours sincerely
   Scott MacArthur, President Marrickville Heritage Society

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