Posts Tagged ‘city of yarra’

Granby Terrace: 11-15 Clifton Street, Richmond. Melbourne, Victoria

Granby is a row of three double storey terraces. The cartouche on the central parapet includes its name and date of construction – 1880.

The terrace is typical of the kind built toward the top of the hill in Richmond in the early 1880s but with notable refinement of its verandah ornament.  Read more... (338 words, 7 images, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

Terrace Houses: 12-24 Waltham Place, Richmond. Melbourne, Victoria

The group of seven modest double storey working class terraces was built in 1890 to the design of H.M. Parlett on land beside the former Bedggood shoe factory in a narrow poorly planned street typical of those in the Richmond Hill area.  It is actually two rows separated by a very narrow lane and slightly stepped up the hill from one another, a row of four and the higher row of three.  Read more... (255 words, 7 images, estimated 1:01 mins reading time)

127 Greeves Street, Fitzoy. Melbourne, Victoria

Tucked in a narrow one-way Fitzroy lane, this wide freestanding boom style terrace is extremely exuberant example of the free classical style.  Of note is its specially cast iron lacework “opera box” style balcony and the multitude of male head busts which litter the party walls on either side, facing both forward and downward.  Read more... (244 words, 7 images, estimated 59 secs reading time)

2-6 Spring Street, Fitzroy. Melbourne, Victoria

This row of two storey terraces sits in a little side street just of Johnston Street in Fitzroy.  Built right up to the property line, the narrow terraces have an italianate style similar to many in Sydney. The small deck has parquetry floor tiles and a small cast iron fence with gate.  Read more... (201 words, 7 images, estimated 48 secs reading time)

Easton Terrace: 138-158 Charles Street. Abbotsford, Victoria

Easton Terrace is one of Melbourne’s longest rows of polychrome terrace houses, right in the middle of Charles Street Precinct, one of Melbourne’s most uniform Victorian workers cottage streetscapes.  Abbotsford is one of the few areas in inner Melbourne to remain working class right up until the 2000s when gentrification began due primarily to the proximity of the city.  There are still many working class households and as a result many of the suburbs terraces are still waiting restoration – others however appear beyond salvation.  Read more... (308 words, 7 images, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)