Posts Tagged ‘1880s’
Elsie Terrace and Shop: 2-8 Portman Street, Zetland. Sydney, New South Wales
"Elsie Terrace" and Shop: 2-8 Portman Street, Zetland. Sydney, New South Wales
While much of Zetland is undergoing urban renewal as part of the Green Square project, a small pocket of the original Waterloo estate developed mostly in the 1885 stands much as it did. The row of three double storey Italianate terrace homes is named “Elsie Terrace” and was erected in 1886 as indicated on its central pediment.
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57 Morrah Street, Parkville. Melbourne, Victoria
Freestanding Terrace: 57 Morrah Street, Parkville. Melbourne, Victoria
Houses like this freestanding boom terrace style home are my personal favourites and Parkville is a place which abounds in such examples of high Victoriana. Unrendered and painted in mustard to simulate sandstone, this particular home was built in 1882 1 and retains many of its original features. Though it appears to currently be undergoing renovations, hopefully much of its character can be preserved.
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Surreyford: 3 Bedford Avenue, Surrey Hills. Melbourne, Victoria
Freestanding Terrace: "Surreyford" 3 Bedford Avenue, Surrey Hills. Melbourne, Victoria
Some 14 kilometres east of Melbourne’s CBD, close to Surrey Hills railway station can be found this rare and grand freestanding double storey terrace house named “Surreyford”.
This terrace was erected in 1889, a year after the railway to Lilydale was duplicated and it is one of a number of homes of this era built nearby although they are mostly single storey villas.
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333-337 Lydiard Street North, Soldiers Hill. Ballarat, Victoria
333-337 Lydiard Street North. Soldiers Hill. Ballarat, Victoria
This row of three single storey double fronted red brick Victorian era terraces mid way along the block is probably most notable for sporting a rare piece of Australiana – a kookaburra motif in its iron lacework. According to expert on cast iron lacework Graeme Robertson, just a couple examples of this pattern in use exist, and one of them, at 16 Chatsworth Road, Prahran was demolished a couple of decades ago. This may be the only row of houses existing in Australia with this pattern.
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42-44 McKillop Street, Geelong. Victoria
Terrace Houses: 42-44 McKillop Street, Geelong. Victoria
This pair of double storey semi-detached houses is notable for its combination of stunning brick polychrome and iron lacework.
The prominent party wall protruding from the slate tile roof and the tall polychrome chimneys dominate the roofline, along with the double bracketed eaves give it a picturesque quality.
The party walls feature French classical columns framing a verandah which has a concave corrugated iron roof cleverly concealed. The iron lacework is fine with a delicate frieze on each level below which are brackets and cast iron corinthian columns. A cast iron palisade fence completes the lacework picture. Zigzag polychrome brick patterns surround the windows with the upper storey featuring large French windows and the lower storey featuring expansive flat arched windows and impressive door complete with transom and sidelights .
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