Posts Tagged ‘balustrade’

"Jersey" (5), "Clio" (7) and "Greta" (9) Mc Donald Street. Potts Point, New South Wales

This row of three terraces (Greta, Clio and Jersey) is tucked away in a side street in Sydney’s Potts Point. At three storeys this is a large impressive stand of terraces set amongst interwar and modern apartment buildings.  Read more... (312 words, 7 images, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)

Terrace Houses: 56-58 Wellington Street, St Kilda. Melbourne, Victoria

It a bit stunned me to discover that this pair of large unnamed but seemingly well kept double storey terraces has never featured in a heritage study or been included in a heritage overlay. Considering the huge amount of redevelopment that Wellington Street has seen since the 1960s it is remarkable that they remain a feature of this area.  Read more... (468 words, 7 images, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Terrace Houses: 4-6 Longmore Street, St Kilda West. Melbourne, Victoria

This pair of narrow cottage sized single storey Italianate terrace houses feature a dainty design of intricate mouldings and a brickwork. The colour schemes of the symmetrical facades are a contrast in tastes, with 4 being restored to sympathetically reveal original tuckpointed brickwork and tile patterns while 6 is completely painted white, the trademark of the middle classes contrasted with black painted iron lace.  Read more... (381 words, 7 images, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Photo by: Duncan Kimball

Terrace Houses: 67-69 Watkin Street, Newtown. Sydney, New South Wales. Image by Duncan Kimball

These terrace houses, largely hidden by trees, are of a most unusual design.  Looking similar in appearance to a Manhattan brownstone, they feature an exaggerated Italianate mannerist (or baroque) style using stucco and mouldings to simulate heavy stone in stark contrast to the iron lacework inspired filigree terraces of the street.  Read more... (260 words, 7 images, estimated 1:02 mins reading time)

Terraced Houses: 300-308 Malvern Road, Prahran. Melbourne, Victoria

This row of five wide terraced homes forms an important Victorian streetscape in Prahran.  It is set back from the street, looking out to the brooding large Commission Towers of the Prahran government housing estate opposite.  Read more... (219 words, 7 images, estimated 53 secs reading time)