Posts Tagged ‘new south wales’

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

Terrace Houses: 51-65 Station Street, Enmore. Sydney, New South Wales

This row of eight single storey Italianate style Sydney terraced houses marching up a slight include displays some fairly unique attributes.  Their most interesting feature is the prominent arched Italianate style doorways with their elaborate acanthus mouldings and the prominent party walls and chimneys.  Read more... (237 words, 7 images, estimated 57 secs reading time)

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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.

"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)

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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.

Terrace Houses: 12-18 Fitzroy Street, Surry Hills. Sydney, New South Wales

Shown here are some Surry Hills working class terraces which are build right up to the property line and march up a subtly sloping inner city street. Their facades are bare with the exception of the ledges with their little brackets and the mouldings designed to throw rain off the double hung windows and the unsympathetically harsh but necessary security grilles on the doors and windows.  Read more... (231 words, 7 images, estimated 55 secs reading time)