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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.