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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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618-626 Great King Street, Dunedin. New Zealand
The Australian style of terrace was not entirely limited to Australia. There are in fact several examples across the Tasman. Some of New Zealand’s Victorian cities actually have extensive stands of terraced homes. However few match the Australian style as well as this row of three wide terraces. The row is closer to the Melbourne vernacular with its double storey bullnose verandah featuring twin iron columns and lacework with brackets and parapet covering the roof and the centre parapet the feature of the row but in red brick.
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