Mostly 1960s cream brick veneer on 700-900m² originals, 300-400m² infill blocks, sitting on bay of biscay reactive clay, with high pressure to knock down and rebuild. City of Campbelltown.
Triple-fronted cream brick veneer, low hip tiled roof, aluminium or steel windows, concrete slab, carport on the side. The Adelaide suburb standard.
Two or three homes where one 1960s house stood: Torrens-title courtyard homes, hammerhead battle-axe blocks, occasional two-storey townhouse rows.
SA Housing Trust double-brick and cream-brick semis and singles, concrete or timber floors, small windows, hip roofs in tile or iron. Solid and simple.
Brown brick veneer, mission-brown aluminium windows, ducted evaporative on the roof, a family room off the kitchen and a pergola out the back. Project homes from the big volume builders.
Highly reactive black or grey clay that swells in winter and shrinks hard in summer. Cracked walls, doors that stick in one season and swing in another, and slabs designed to Class H1 or H2 (deep edge beams or waffle pods). Keep water away from the footings and do not plant big trees close to the house.
One of Adelaide's busiest knockdown corridors. The 1960s cream bricks are going two-for-one along Lower North East Road and every side street off it.
Locals know: if the house is original and the walls are not cracked, someone has been very careful with the watering.
House prices in years of wages, decade by decade, what was standing when, and what her block does now.
Likely in the older stock. About 65% of Campbelltown was built between the 1920s and 1980s, the peak asbestos period. Eaves, wet-area sheeting, fences and sheds are the usual places. Test before you drill, sand or demolish.
Bay of Biscay reactive clay. Highly reactive black or grey clay that swells in winter and shrinks hard in summer. Cracked walls, doors that stick in one season and swing in another, and slabs designed to Class H1 or H2 (deep edge beams or waffle pods). Keep water away from the footings and do not plant big trees close to the house.
High subdivision pressure: Two or three homes replacing one on many streets. Original houses are becoming the minority and land value drives everything. Typical blocks are 700-900m² originals, 300-400m² infill. Check the zone and minimum site area in the Planning and Design Code for the exact street.
Street-level generalisations from council heritage studies, ABS dwelling-age data, soil classification maps and BuildPilot partner site reports. Every street has exceptions. A soil test, a building inspection and the council's overlay map beat any suburb profile, including this one.
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