Keady Hill Houses 554-556 Swanston Street, Carlton
Keady Hill Houses 554-556 Swanston Street, Carlton
Like a number former terrace houses around inner Melbourne, this row of two former homes since 1995 has been used as a brothel1 (known as “Manhattan Terrace” and 556 formerly as “Club 556″). The otherwise elegant Victorian Italianate pair were built in 1880 and unlike many used for similar purposes appears to be in remarkably good condition externally, with their elaborate detail and symmetry, including their parapet urn and balustrade largely intact (although the windows, doors and transoms have been modified).
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3-5 Weynton Street, Annandale. Sydney, New South Wales
Double Storey terrace houses: 3-5 Weynton Street, Annandale. Sydney, New South Wales
This vestigal pair of Victorian terraces marches up Weynton Street to Piper Lane wedged between a large blocks of 50s walk up flats and a Victorian villa. This pair stands out in the northern part of Annandale which is best known for its “Witches Houses”. Nearby terraces are mostly freestanding terraces and single storey cottages.
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93-97 Abercrombie Street, Chippendale. Sydney, New South Wales
Terrace Houses: 93-97 Abercrombie Street, Chippendale
This row of four unnamed terraces in Sydney’s Chippendale adjacent to the Shannon Hotel (built in 1912) is difficult to date and not on any official heritage list. WIth a subdued Georgian appearance with plain sills, stringline corniced parapet typical of 1860s industrial housing of nearby Ultimo, it has some turn of the century trims such as the terracotta chimneys, four panel windows and doors.
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109-115 Paisley Street, Footscray. Melbourne, Victoria
109-115 Paisley Street, Footscray
The most distinctive feature of this row of four Footscray cottages is their overly tall triangular parapets which cascading with scrolls and central arch seashell motif is both a nod to the Dutch style and effectively hide the hip and gable roof behind. It is most likely that before painting, they were red brick and cream painted render typical of the 1890s. For many years from the 1930s to the 1950s they were sold as a single investment row12 as such its probably a miracle that they have survived to the present day in an area which had seen so much change. There is no doubt that terraces are now exceptionally rare in this area. Whether they, along with their neighbouring terraces escape the current extensive redevelopment of Footscray with no heritage protection or overlay at any level3 remains to be seen. There is no doubt that terraces are now exceptionally rare in this area.
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114-116 Grant Street, Golden Point. Ballarat, Victoria
Semi-detached houses: 114-116 Grant Street Golden Point Ballarat Victoria
This pair of semi-detached weatherboard terraces in Golden Point close to Canadian Creek, just south of the Ballarat CBD has an exceptionally rare feature of such houses in Australia, northern European style clipped or half-hipped gables. Combined with their projective eaves and brackets and other timber decorative detail and mouldings (including six panelled timber Victorian style doors surrounded by sidelights, fanlight and paired double hung windows), bullnosed verandahs, iron lace fringe and brackets and tall polychrome brick chimney and party walls, this is a most distinctive pair of cottages.
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