Mostly infill townhouses and rebuilds on 500-800m² blocks, sitting on limestone and calcrete, with high pressure to knock down and rebuild. City of Charles Sturt.
Two or three homes where one 1960s house stood: Torrens-title courtyard homes, hammerhead battle-axe blocks, occasional two-storey townhouse rows.
Bluestone or sandstone fronts, brick quoins, slate or corrugated-iron roofs, a bullnose verandah and 3.3m ceilings. Rooms off a central hall.
Californian and Tudor-style bungalows in red brick or freestone, tiled roofs, deep verandahs, leadlight windows. Many on 700-900m² blocks.
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.
Triple-fronted cream brick veneer, low hip tiled roof, aluminium or steel windows, concrete slab, carport on the side. The Adelaide suburb standard.
Shallow limestone under a thin sandy or loamy topsoil, common across Adelaide's west and north-west. Stable to build on but expensive to trench; expect rock-breaking for services and pools. Salt damp is common in older stone and brick.
St Clair and the old hospital land brought a whole new suburb; the older streets are subdividing steadily.
Salt damp in the stone villas and limestone under the yard. Trenching for a pool costs more than the pool shell.
House prices in years of wages, decade by decade, what was standing when, and what her block does now.
City of Charles Sturt approvals, fees and timelines.
OpenLand prices, site costs and builders working here.
OpenWhat a knockdown rebuild costs and how long it takes.
OpenWhat each decade of Australian house looked like and hid.
OpenLikely in the older stock. About 45% of Woodville 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.
Limestone and calcrete. Shallow limestone under a thin sandy or loamy topsoil, common across Adelaide's west and north-west. Stable to build on but expensive to trench; expect rock-breaking for services and pools. Salt damp is common in older stone and brick.
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 500-800m². 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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