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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.

10 Garsed Street. Bendigo, Victoria

Former Terrace Houses: 10 Garsed Street, Bendigo Victoria

I discovered this delightful semi-detached pair of late Victorian terraces while wandering from the train station to Bendigo’s central business district.  The first suprise of my investigation of this great little pair of rare picturesque Queen Anne/Rustic Gothic terraces was its unrestored condition, the second was its lack of any heritage status in an area which is being rapidly redeveloped.  The two are currently on one title and adaptively reused as offices.  An unfortunately placed tree makes capturing the pair in one photo impossible.

92-94 Perry Street, Collingwood. Melbourne, Victoria

Terrace Houses: 92-94 Perry Street. Collingwood, Victoria

This pair of plain looking old terraces in formerly working class Collingwood is in fair external condition but obviously visibly showing its age, moreso the house at 92 which has the appearance of subsiding with large visible cracks along its facade, nevertheless it was recently advertised by real estate agents as “structurally sound” and recently sold for many hundreds of thousands.

328-344 Kings Way. South Melbourne, Victoria

328-344 Kings Way. South Melbourne, Victoria

Former Terrace Houses: 328-344 Kings Way. South Melbourne, Victoria.

This is one of my favourite Melbourne terraces and one of the only ones remaining along Kings Way.

While the landmark triple “boom style” storey terrace is within its own heritage overlay HO1771, unfortunately last month there was an application to demolish the terraces. They appear destined to be incorporated into a 14 storey apartment tower development.

The terraces have been used commercially for many years, the most recent being an Italian restaurant, using the top levels and balconies for functions and dining.

121-125 Wattle Street, Bendigo. Victoria

Terrace Houses: 121-125 Wattle Street, Bendigo. Victoria

This pair of terrace houses, among the most impressive double fronted double storey renaissance revival teracces I have seen in Australia is currently recovering from severe 1960s bastardisation.  Until recently an unfortunate 60s reno had resulted in poorly maintained lacework was enclosed by wood, demolition of the third in the row to be replaced by a block of dog-box flats and the whole facade obscured by paperbark trees. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of these terraces is that they have full verandah facades on both sides with a rare long parallel double hipped roof.



Recent Comments
  • rohan: And just went past and now roof is gone and back being bulldozed leaving what looks like a 3m depth left !
  • miffed: Oh this is such a sad a sad thing to observe. Surely couldn’t it all be restored if someone had the...
  • Dave M: These houses are looking a lot better now with the balconies repaired, the ironwork restored and matching,...
  • Jeremy: Awesome, i wish there were more areas like this. I want to live and work in this area.
  • Monica: I work in GPT, and have always been fascinated by these terraces (and a little disappointed that...
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