By Cathy Jones 2024
’Sarina’ 13 Broughton Road Homebush is a Federation style cottage. It is located on the original Crown land granted to Frederick Meredith in 1793.
In December 1912 William Gordon Thomas, property salesman and Tom Malcolm Price, builder, purchased Lot 21 from Jessie Smith and James Gregg from a subdivision marketed as the ‘Smith Estate’. The land title contained a covenant which required that any building must be built in stone or brick or stone and brick with slate tile or shingle roof, be only be a private dwelling with one detached dwelling house on the land allotment, be set back by at least 15 feet from Broughton Street frontage and the construction be valued at least £400.
The 1914 Strathfield Council Valuation record noted a house had been built on Lot 20 (11 Broughton Road) and Lot 21 (13 Broughton Road), which indicates a build date in late 1912 or early 1913. Both lots were owned by Thomas and Price, who are noted as builders on Council’s valuation records.
In May 1914, ownership of the property transferred to Alfred Archer, a commercial traveller. The house appears for the first time in Sands Directory 1915 for Alfred Archer, who named the residence ’Sarina’. The house was originally numbered 9 Broughton Road Homebush and renumbered 13 Broughton Road in 1957.
The property transferred in May 1920 to Leonard Wallis, of Strathfield, bank manager and transferred again in August 1920 to Maud Julia Cutcliffe, wife of William Henry Cutcliffe of Homebush, chemist. Cutcliffe operated a well known pharmacy at Rochester Street Homebush. In December 1961, the property transferred to John Stassinopolous.
