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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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Ray Villa and Harris Villa: 45-47 Waterloo Crescent, St Kilda. Melbourne, Victoria
Ray Villa and Harris Villa: 45-47 Waterloo Crescent, St Kilda
This exuberant semi-detached pair of Victorian Italianate villas, set back from the street, is one of two such pairs in close proximity (the other I will post at a future date). Disappointingly while other nearby properties do, neither of these pairs has any heritage status under the City of Port Phillip planning scheme.
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Roseneath and Culloden Cottage: 311-313 Coventry Street, South Melbourne. Victoria
Roseneath and Culloden Cottage 311-313 Coventry Street, South Melbourne. Victoria
Roseneath and Culloden Cottage are a fine pair of semi-detached single storey Victorian Italianate terrace houses in South Melbourne. The most notable feature is the elaborate parapet mouldings which is strongly visually separated by a bold cornice and includes a named cartouche framed by scrolls and other mouldings in an unusual free classical composition. Both are currently adaptively used as cafe/restaurants.
21-51 Georgina Street, Newtown. Sydney, New South Wales
Terrace Houses: 21-51 Georgina Street, Newtown. Sydney, New South Wales
This photo taken from the Newtown Synagogue shows the long row of fifteen grand triple storey Italianate style terrace houses dominated by a massive Moreton Bay fig tree in the middle of the street. Almost half of the row fronts Hollis Park.
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Gladstone Terrace: 38-50 Melville Street, Dunedin. New Zealand
Gladstone Terrace: 38-50 Melville Street, Dunedin. New Zealand (Image by Benchil licenced under Creative Commons)
Another Kiwi terrace and again in Dunedin which is fortunately blessed with many buildings of this kind.
Gladstone terrace was built in 1880 and marches down an incline with blade party walls along the exposed corrugated iron roofline much like Australian terraces in Sydney. Its single storey verandahs however have been unsympathetically built in. The row is given a modern look which significantly detracts from its appeal and I’m not certain as to its original verandah decoration if any and whether it featured iron lacework at any stage.
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7-9 Broadway, Camberwell. Melbourne, Victoria
Terrace Houses: 7-9 Broadway, Camberwell. Melbourne, Victoria
This pair of terrace houses is not just interesting for its highly embellished facade and regal appearance, but the fact that it is a rare example of a suburban row to be found almost 14 kilometres from the Melbourne City Centre.
The small row of two symmetrical semi detached terraces has sophisticated Italianate detailing including a high rendered parapet on each house hiding the two gabled corrugated iron roofs. The parapet is topped by a triangular pediment and crown which divides the facade into three bays and tops a small temple motif. The temple motif sits on classical entablature flanked by pedestals (presumably missing urns or finials) and scrolls. Inside the is a blank cartouche inside a flat arch motif with a keystone. A blind balustrade of knotted linked circles completes the picture.
Harris Terrace: 80 George Street. Brisbane, Queensland
Harris Terrace. George Street, Brisbane
Harris Terrace is one of Brisbane’s rare terraces. Built in 1867 by local businessman George Harris who named the terraces for himself and designed by J & G Cowlishaw, Harris Terrace was aimed at providing accommodation for the Brisbane bourgeoisie. It was renamed “Harris Court” following the common nomenclature for prestige flats in the 1920s, however the name and date on the central parapet plaque remains.
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