Posts Tagged ‘1882’
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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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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The Brewery: 17-19 Stanley Street. Maclean, New South Wales
The Brewery: 17-19 Stanley Street. Maclean, New South Wales
This interesting row of double storey terraces in rural New South Wales was not originally a terrace house. Originally a brewery built in 1882 out of sandstone it was converted into two wide double fronted houses of the typical Australian terrace style in 1915.
The most interesting aspect of this terrace was inherited from its days as a brewery, the arched entryway which would have allowed horse and cart to carry beer barrels to the rear stables. A long corrugated iron gable roof in the style of many Queensland terraces creates room at the front for the cast iron lacework decorated verandah.
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