Tuesday 10 May 2022

The Maudholme Estate

Maudholme Estate subdivision plan, 1908. Courtesy State Library of NSW

The 20 lots of the Maudholme Estate were auctioned during April 1908 by Batt, Rodd and Purves. Situated between Liverpool Road and Punchbowl Road (now Coronation Parade and formerly The Boulevarde), the estate was advertised as ‘Strathfield Heights’ ‘on the highest ridge between Sydney and Parramatta’. Twelve lots were initially sold at prices ranging from between 17 shillings and sixpence to 30 shillings per foot of frontage. The Estate was within ‘easy walking distance of either the Strathfield or Burwood railway stations,’ with the Enfield to Burwood tram also passing by.[1]

Sydney Morning Herald 18 April 1908 p.23

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14926398

Most of the federation-style cottages built still stand today at 29-49 Coronation Parade and 388-406 Liverpool Road. The 1928 valuation lists show that almost all of the Coronation Parade cottages had been given names by their owners. These included De Vere, Thalassa, Eccksville, Avondale, Deloraine, Barrallier and Hillside. Some of these cottage names were retained until at least the 1960s.

Fewer of the Liverpool Road cottages were given names in the early days although the few that did included Glengarry, Eleon, Sussex Oak and Willaree according to the valuation lists of 1928. These names also survived until at least the 1960s.