Posts Tagged ‘glebe’

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Terrace Houses: 37 Wentworth Street, Glebe. Sydney, New South Wales

This row of five terraced homes in Sydney’s Glebe shares the same address and appears tall due to the basement level, making them triple storey houses.

Photo by Michael Gardner. All rights reserved. Used with permission

Terrace Houses: 83-87 Mitchell Street, Glebe. Sydney, New South Wales

Pictured are a row of three double storey terraces typical of many inner city houses in Sydney. This row appears to have been built before the new planning controls sometime in the 1860s and features a gable roof with plain window ledges with double hung windows and a single storey verandah with striped corrugated iron roof with a small step down to the third terrace and chimneys in between.  The individual houses are defined by their doorways and the rainwater downpipes which descend their facades.  Read more... (139 words, 7 images, estimated 33 secs reading time)

Photo by Michael Gardner. All rights reserved. Used with permission

Terrace Houses: 31-42 Mitchell Street, Glebe. Sydney, New South Wales

The Glebe Estate contains numerous long and uniform rows of single and double storey terraced homes, many very similar in style and most featuring similar roof features. Pictured is part of a row of thirteen single storey Victorian terraced homes on Mitchell Street.

The cottages are narrow and most of the focus architecturally is on the roof, in particular the blade style party walls which protrude above the slate tiles culminating in a moulded chimney for each house giving the row a picturesque quality.

Terrace homes at 433-445 Glebe Point Road. Glebe, New South Wales

This alphabetically named row (Abna, Boro, Cama, Divo, Edna, Freya and Gaza)¹ is one of Glebe’s more interesting rows of terraces.

Built in 1899-1900², the Queen Anne style edwardian terraces have a picturesque roofline combining prominent gables with a high pitched tile roof, decorative wooden fretwork bargeboards and tall chimneys with rows of terracotta pots.   The corner terrace on the Leichhardt corner is particularly interesting as it faces the corner with an angular bay with one of three feature gables.  The corner terrace also has decorative string courses, window surrounds as well as angular niches and rear access doors with palisade fencing.  Read more... (197 words, 7 images, estimated 47 secs reading time)

7-9 Arundel Street. Glebe, New South Wales

This set of interesting row of four double storey terrace houses is directly opposite the University of Sydney in Glebe.  Read more... (233 words, 7 images, estimated 56 secs reading time)