Whitfield House

Whitfield House is located on Fiennes Street in Toodyay, Western Australia.

Whitfield House
Former namesAnglican Rectory, Lee Steere Home
General information
Architectural styleVictorian Vernacular
Address7 Fiennes Street
Town or cityToodyay
Completed1863
Renovated1887, 1949
References
Toodyay municipal inventory

History

The house was completed in 1863 for John Acton Wroth. It was originally a four roomed cottage with shingle roof.[1] 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.[2]

A commemorative plaque on the building notes that it was renovated in 1949, through the generosity of Sir Ernest and Lady Lee Steere.

References
  1. Living History. Shire of Toodyay.
  2. Hocking Planning & Architecture (2012), Municipal Inventory and Heritage List (PDF), Shire of Toodyay, pp. 378–379, retrieved 12 April 2018


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