Kadavu

In the 1890s, the Nyrambla Estate was one of three large estates which took up much of the land between Windermere Road and Lancaster Road. The other two were Windermere and Mayfield.

From 1905, the entirety of the Nyrambla estate was subdivided by the Bank and sold as allotments ranging in size from 16 perches to over 80 perches. An estate map for the sale advertised the land as "Nyrambla Estate, Ascot … for many years the residence of the late H.P. Abbot … 93 super excellent building blocks and superb residence."

In July 1907 Robert Bailey Brown and his wife Rachel Florence Brown purchased a block on Lancaster Road and registered the purchase in Rachel's name. The block was 1 rood and 24 perches in size, equivalent to about 1600 square metres. The property description at the time was "resubdivisions 19-22 of subdivision 1 of resubdivision A of subdivision 2, of allotment 25".

The Brown's built a house on the land almost immediately and historical Post Office Directories show them living on Lancaster Road in 1908. By this time the house was known as Kadavu. The house was built in the Federation style which was popular at the time. They remained in the house another nine years before selling the property on to Edith Isabel Macdonald and her husband Arthur Herbert Graham Macdonald in 1917.

The estate maps show that Yabba Street was originally to be called Bank Street, no doubt a reference to the holding of the Nyrambla Estate by the Corporation of the Australian Joint Stock Bank. Post Office Directories show that by the time the street was built it had been decided to simply extend Yabba Street across Lancaster Road. For many years the street address was given as Lancaster Road rather than Yabba Street.

Over the next two decades the suburb continued to develop and remaining undeveloped lots in Ascot were steadily acquired, largely for residential purposes. The Macdonald's property remained stable until 1940, when Arthur Macdonald died and the property was subdivided. Three new subdivisions were created. Subdivision 1, of thirty-six and one-tenth perches, was retained by Edith. Subdivisions 2 and 3, of twenty-two and two-tenths perches and five and seven-tenth perches respectively, were purchased by Roy Andrew Miller. These subdivisions were situated on the east and south sides of the original property.

Edith died in August 1942 and the property transferred to what were presumably her unmarried daughters, Ina Maud Macdonald and Mary Myrtle Macdonald, on 7 April 1943. Mary died in 1953 and her share in the property passed to Ina. In 1966 the property was sold, and then again in 1992, to the present owners.