By Cathy Jones 2025
49 Homebush Road Strathfield is a Interwar single storey brick bungalow with a hipped terracotta tiled roof built in 1935 for its owners Grace Nossiter and John Nossiter, a retired bank manager. It is located in the Homebush Road Heritage Conservation area in Strathfield Council’s Local Environmental Plan.
The site is located on the original 1793 Thomas Rose land grant. This land came into the ownership of James R. Powell, a descendent of another original land grantee Edward Powell. Part of Powell’s land, fronting Homebush Road, was acquired by tobacco merchant George Todman. His estate ‘Milroy’, fronted Albert Road and parts of Homebush Road. His estate was subdivided and offered for sale in 1934, creating the lots that houses 49, 47 and 41 Homebush Road are built upon. The gradual sale of land by Powell and later subdivision particularly ‘Milroy’, is responsible for the inconsistent subdivision pattern, in terms of lot size and building styles, on this side of Homebush Road.
47 Homebush Road is built on the subdivision of the ‘Milroy Estate’, which offered lots facing Homebush Rd and Albert Road. John Nossiter and his wife Grace Nossiter purchased Lot 12, a vacant lot, from the Permanent Trustee Company of NSW, Charles Ingram Todman and Walter Verney Buzacott [mortgagers exercising power of sale] in January 1935. Nossiter then lodged a building application with Strathfield Council in 1934 by John Nossiter to build a brick dwelling of five rooms at cost of £850.
After the death in 1955 of John Nossiter the property transferred to Grace Nossiter as its sole owner. The property transferred ownership in June 1970 to Bruce garage, accountant Guy Colley, retired and Arthur Colley retired and in August 1970 to Con and Maria Simos. In 1977, the house changed owner.
References
Department of Valuer-General, Valuation Lists, Municipality of Strathfield 1948, 1960
‘Milroy Estate’ subdivision poster dated 1934.
NSW Land Register, Certificate of Title v.1006 f.82
NSW Land Register, Certificate of Title v.4879 f.16
Strathfield Council Building Register Vol. 4
