Posts Tagged ‘sydney’

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

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)

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.

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)

Terrace Houses: 2-10 Rockwall Crescent, Potts Point. Sydney, New South Wales

This row of four terrace houses, hidden in a Potts Point sidestreet would have to be one of the most interesting in Sydney. Standing at 3 storeys with an additional attic level and English style basement, they create, along with their neighbouring rows, a truly impressive Victorian streetscape that would certainly not look out of place in inner London. There are a few key things that set this terrace apart – the prominence given to the roofs; the Italianate style of the faceted bay which rises through the centre of the facade of each house; and the skillful reservation in which ornament is used. All these things give symmetry, lend the row a sense of grandeur and elegance as well as donate significant rhythm to the street.  Read more... (419 words, 7 images, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)