Photo by: J Bar licenced under (CC-SA)

7-10 Bridge Street. Erskineville, New South Wales.

This is a row of is actually part of a row of nine (this one of four and another identical row on the street of five) broken by a single storey terrace house in between.  While Brian Turner’s book Australian Terrace Houses has a historical photo of a near identical row of seven terrace houses in Erskineville, the book also says that it was demolished, so I’m not sure whether the book is incorrect, that there were once clones of this terrace in the area or that just some of the houses in one of these vestigal rows were demolished.  The terraces themselves are straight out of the Victorian Regency textbook with a touch of mannerism,  with heavy square columns forming a recessed portico columnade and loggia.  Read more... (269 words, 4 images)