LEE-STEERE'S HOUSE (ANGLICAN RECTORY), TOODYAY

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Overview

Colour photo of house in countyside.
Foreground shows crop of wild oats. Trees on left of photo, two horses under trees, house has iron roof with a partly enclosed verandah, garage on side of house.
Now named Whitfield House, on Fiennes Street. (The 1907 lockup is visible in the background further up the hill.)

Historical information

The house was completed in 1863 for John Acton Wroth. It was originally a four roomed cottage with shingle roof. From 1871, Mrs. G. Whitfield used the site for a private school. In 1887, Augustus Frederick Lee Steere of the Lee Steere family purchased the house and added two rooms on the east end. He bequeathed the place to the Anglican Church on his death in 1903. The first clergyman to occupy the rectory was the Reverend John Ellis. It later became a private residence.
The house remains today as an extended dwelling of brick and iron construction with rendered arches to door and window openings, brick chimneys and casement windows. The front verandah has timber posts and colonial style cross-cross balustrading.
A commemorative plaque on the building notes that it was renovated in 1949, through the generosity of Sir Ernest and Lady Lee Steere.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2001.1378

Item type

Photographs

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

8.5000 cm

Height or length

12.5000 cm

Inscriptions and markings

On back of image: in blue ink 'Lee-Steers House - Anglican Rectory - Private Home - Toodyay':

Keywords

LEE-STEERE Family

ANGLICAN Rectory

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Historic significance

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-31.552928513733, 116.46804675578

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