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Shoreham: 9 Chetwynd Street, North Melbourne. Victoria
Shoreham: 9 Chetwynd Street, North Melbourne. Victoria
Shoreham is a grand freestanding terrace style house with boom style characterstics although it was built some time after the boom in 1898 and classified as Edwardian.
The red brick and stucco render (or “blood and bone” style) terrace dominates the streetscape and is grander than most boom style 1880s homes. With a tall parapet with classical entablature, including a segmental pedimet and detailed mouldings including a cartouche with the name and date. The palladian composition of the parapet is flanked by balustrades but missing its finials on the pedestals on either side of the parapet.
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92-95 Howard Street, North Melbourne. Victoria
Terrace Houses: 92-95 Howard Street, North Melbourne. Victoria
I find this short row of five unnamed Edwardian terraced houses very interesting. Firstly because Edwardian terraces are rare in Melbourne and this is an intriguing example as it has some pretty unusual design elements for a Melbourne terrace. The way that the end terrace sports a variation in design and faces in a different direction adds significant asymmetry, interest and intrigue to an otherwise symmetrical row of houses. The row marches up the slight incline of Howard Street not unlike a row of Sydney terraces, but so discretely you almost wouldn’t notice. The fins of the roof are exposed are also much more akin to Sydney Victorian era terraces than Melbourne. The striking red brick form of the walls, terracotta tiled gable roofs with their row of ridge capping and picturesque chimneys dotted with rows of squat pots set it apart from the majority Victorian Italianate terraces in the area.
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Claremont Terrace: 31-35 Cobden Street, North Melbourne. Victoria
Claremont Terrace: 31-35 Cobden Street, North Melbourne. Victoria
Claremont Terrace is hidden within the industrial area to the north of the Melbourne CBD and most of the row appears to have been adaptively reused as offices.
The polychrome brick design is notable but also restrained, with the main focus the window and door framing with a combination of brown and cream brick and highlighted with an orange brick flat arch above the two double hung windows on the top storey of each terrace. The centre parapet bears the name of the terrace in a framed arch. However the parapet, stripped of its decorative urns, does reveals the slate roof and the party walls and chimneys from across the street.
