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Bess Street Brick Cottages is a heritage-listed duplex at 22, 25-27 Bess Street, Windsor, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from to 1930s circa. It is also known as Hedge's Buildings. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 15 December 2000. == History == These small brick cottages were erected in the late 1870s or early 1880s, most likely by or for Samuel Hedge, a Lutwyche brickyard proprietor.〔 The Lutwyche district was first surveyed in 1858 as farm portions, several of which were alienated by Sarah Sophia Bartley, wife of Nehemiah Bartley, in 1859. In 1865 part of the Bartley's land was subdivided and in October 1870, title to 4 acres (subdivisions 29A & 32 of portions 189 & 190, parish of Enoggera), passed to Samuel Hedge of Enoggera.〔 Samuel Hedge and Son were brickmakers at Lutwyche from at least 1878 (likely much earlier) until the early 1890s. The son referred to was Francis John Hedge, and by 1889 they had been joined in the business by Samuel Hedge junior. Samuel Hedge senior appears to have retired from brickmaking . He resided in Bess Street during the 1880s, and returned there , prior to his death in 1903. FJ Hedge continued as a brickmaker into the early 1890s, but by 1896 FJ Hedge and Samuel Hedge (junior?) were farming at Westhaldon, south of Gatton.〔 It is not clear whether Samuel Hedge's brickyard was located on the land he acquired in 1870. Being resident in the Enoggera district already, he may have established a brickyard elsewhere, or have been leasing from the Bartleys prior to purchase. The Windsor and Districts Historical Society suggests that Hedge's brickyards extended from Bess Street to Fuller Street and north to Kedron Brook.〔 Brickmaking was one of the earliest manufacturing enterprises in Brisbane, and in the 1870s and 1880s was concentrated principally in the Lutwyche-Kedron district (which then included parts of Windsor). Well-known Lutwyche brickmakers of this period included William Anderson, Samuel Hedge and Son, John Salt, George and Charles Starkey, and William Williams. Fuller Street at Lutwyche was originally named William Street, possibly after early brickmaker William Williams, and nearby Brickfield Street recalls the brickmaking enterprise which Williams established at Lutwyche in the 1870s.〔 In August 1877 Hedge subdivided the 4 acres acquired in 1870, into 20 residential allotments and a dead-end street off Brook Street, variously known as Best or Bess Street in the early years. Later, Bess Street was extended east to meet McKenzie Street. The blocks at each end of Bess Street averaged close to 1 rood each in size; those in-between were surveyed as 27 perches each on the north side of the road and 23.4 perches each on the south side. The survey plan does not indicate any extant dwellings, but shows a perimeter fence around the 4-acre property.〔 Samuel Hedge sold the bulk of the re-subdivisions between 1878 and 1886, but retained title to 20 Bess Street (resub 9) and 25-27 Bess Street (resubs 13-14) until 1899. He also retained title to the block on the southern corner of Bess and Brook streets, which contained a duplex similar in form to what is now 20 Bess Street, but fronting Brook Street. This building is no longer extant.〔 As there was not yet a railway in the district, and nearby Lutwyche village was scarcely developed at this period, it appears that Hedge subdivided the land to service workers in his and other nearby brickyards. By 1885, the residents of Bess Street were mostly working class, many associated with brickmaking, and included:〔 * Frederick C Butler, drayman (FC Butler acquired re-subdivisions 3 and 4 in 1879 and 1881 respectively) * Charles Hawkwood, busdriver and George Perkins, brickmaker, both of whom lived in Edges Buildings (this is likely Hedges Buildings, and may refer either to what is now 20 Bess Street, or to 25-27 Bess Street) * John Hopkinson, gardener; James Morgan, brickmaker (Bridget Morgan acquired resubdivision 2 in 1882) * Mary Saxby * Joseph Sibthorpe, drayman (Samuel Hedge's daughter Caroline married Joseph Sibthorpe in 1876 and in 1884 acquired title to re-subdivisions 15 and 16) * Edward Usher, brickmaker. By 1887, James Watterson, carpenter, also resided in the street (Watterson acquired re-subdivisions 5-7 in 1886). Samuel Hedge is listed as resident in Bess Street by 1888. In 1890, the residents of Bess Street were mostly owner-occupiers:〔 * D Good, broker * J Morgan, brickmaker * S Hedge, snr * S Hedge, jnr, brickmaker * Mrs C Sibthorpe * Mrs MA Saxby * FC Bulter, drayman * J Waterson (sic), joiner In 1998, both 22 and 25-27 Bess Street, Windsor were identified as places of heritage significance in the Grange District Heritage and Character Study prepared by the Brisbane City Council's Heritage Unit.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bess Street Brick Cottages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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