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987 Bourke Street, Waterloo. Sydney, New South Wales
Double storey terrace at 987 Bourke Street Waterloo
While Bourke Street in Redfern and Darlinghurst is more known for terrace housing busy Bourke Street in Waterloo is mostly industrial. There is however a small section of late 19th Century workers cottages along the street in Waterloo with a handful of double storey houses. This house is one of the northernmost of this stretch, with industrial buildings directly to the north. The most suprising thing about this house is that it has been modernised really recently (within the last few years) with the fine patterned iron lacework removed completely in favour of horizontal timber slats.
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105 High Street. Ararat, Victoria
Semi detached pair: 105 High Street. Ararat, Victoria
Attached housing is rare in Ararat, a gold rush city, however a handful of single storey examples can still be found, mostly on the main roads leading into town.
This particular pair can be found north of the Western Highway between King and Princes Street and backs onto the railway reserve within very close proximity to the railway station.
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Callender House: 355 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill. Brisbane, Queensland
Callender House: 355 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill. Brisbane, Queensland
This little pair of attached houses dates back to 1863 and was designed by the reknowned local architect Robert Smith Dods1.
Originally each house was comprised of five rooms and a kitchen.2 The building later became known as Callender House and had long been associated with members of the church.
Specimen Cottage: 178-180 Hargreaves Street. Bendigo, Victoria
Specimen Cottage: 178-180 Hargreaves Street. Bendigo, Victoria
Specimen Cottage, the oldest terrace house in Bendigo is also reputed to be the oldest house and possibly oldest buildings in the city. The row of two sandstone ashlar cottages was built in two stages. The first single storey double fronted cottage was erected in 1856 by local stonemason James Brierley. The name and date are enscribed in stone above the doorway. In 1861 he extended it with a matching double storey cottage.
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27-33 Hawke Street. West Melbourne, Victoria
Single storey terrace houses: 27-33 Hawke Street, West Melbourne
While architecturally simple and missing their iron lacework decorations, these four single storey row houses are of a style that is actually quite rare in Melbourne but proliferated in the 1870s in inner Sydney areas such as Glebe and Newtown where extensive rows can be found (example 31-42 Mitchell Street, Glebe).
What is distinctive about this style is not the transverse gable configuration, but the combination of the blade party walls, central chimney, slate tile and banded paint (cream and maroon) concave corrugated iron verandahs referred to as Post-regency in Sydney.
