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10-18 Chalder Street, Newtown. Sydney, New South Wales
10-18 Chalder Street, Newtown. Sydney, New South Wales.
A row of four narrow double storey Victorian terraced houses in Newtown, an area full of similar streetscapes.These have a prominent central party wall along the steeply pitched corrugated iron roof with long chimneys on it and both end terraces. One of the terraces (16) gives an indication of the original corrugated iron alternating painted pattern which was common on verandahs of terraced buildings of the era. The plainly dressed party walls project out to frame the verandah and divide the two main bays. Cast iron lacework featuring fine fringes with brackets and balustrades are a feature of the facade.
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1-2 Warren Ball Avenue, Newtown. Sydney, New South Wales
1-2 Warren Ball Avenue: Newton. New South Wales
Sydney’s Newtown has many impressively intact rows of Victorian terrace houses on relatively flat terrain and this terrace forms part of an impressive row or eight overlooking Hollis Park which was formerly known as L’Avenue. These end terraces, tall for two storeys, are in the distinctive Queen Anne style terrace has a fanciful gothic feel thanks to its tall gables with frilly wooden bargeboards and tall wooden finials on a steep slate roof. The roof features tall picturesque chimneys complete with patterned mouldings. The two gables frame a large bay window which goes up the full two storeys with a small slate roof in the gable. The terraces are mirrored at the other end of the row, which has taller Italianate houses in between, however 7 and 8 have been substantially compromised and barely recognisable with enclosed verandahs and other later additions.
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