Posts Tagged ‘shell motif’
Surreyford: 3 Bedford Avenue, Surrey Hills. Melbourne, Victoria
Freestanding Terrace: "Surreyford" 3 Bedford Avenue, Surrey Hills. Melbourne, Victoria
Some 14 kilometres east of Melbourne’s CBD, close to Surrey Hills railway station can be found this rare and grand freestanding double storey terrace house named “Surreyford”.
This terrace was erected in 1889, a year after the railway to Lilydale was duplicated and it is one of a number of homes of this era built nearby although they are mostly single storey villas.
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7 McCully Street, Ascot Vale. Melbourne, Victoria
Freestanding Terrace House: 7 McCully Street, Ascot Vale. Melbourne, Victoria
This freestanding boom style double storey terrace is unfortunately not heritage protected and is in an unrenovated state. Its double storey verandah balustrade, iron lacework and roof has been removed with a single column and decking all that remains and there are large visible cracks on the facade. Still the facade is largely in its original condition and the lack of verandah reveals a richly decorated parapet and party walls, a pair of plain French windows on the upper storey as well as detailed ground level facade featuring a cluster of windows with arched mouldings and bracketed ledges as well as a timber framed Victorian door complete with decorated fanlight and sidelights.
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2-4 Collett Street, Kensington. Melbourne, Victoria
Terrace Houses: 2-4 Collett Street, Kensington. Melbourne, Victoria
This little pair of Italianate terraces attempts a sense of grandeur with its richly decorative parapet which is at once distinguishing each house and having a composition which gives it the appearance of a single larger home.
The rendered parapet above each house features a central shell motif in a semicircular arch which is crowned and flanked by detailed finials sitting on decorated piers. There is an unexpected relationship of scrolls on either side sitting atop a balustrade. At either end, there is a pineapple finial. There is a frieze of festoons above a heavy cornice which has clusters of twin brakets and helps to visually divide the heavy top with the verandah below.
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4-6 Longmore Street, St Kilda West. Melbourne, Victoria
Terrace Houses: 4-6 Longmore Street, St Kilda West. Melbourne, Victoria
This pair of narrow cottage sized single storey Italianate terrace houses feature a dainty design of intricate mouldings and a brickwork. The colour schemes of the symmetrical facades are a contrast in tastes, with 4 being restored to sympathetically reveal original tuckpointed brickwork and tile patterns while 6 is completely painted white, the trademark of the middle classes contrasted with black painted iron lace.
4-22 Gourlay Street, Balaclava. Melbourne, Victoria
Terrace Houses: 4-22 Gourlay Street, Balaclava. Melbourne, Victoria
This impressive row of ten double storey terraces is located in a well preserved precinct near the site of the Balaclava railway station. Originally in polychrome brick with unpainted rendered parapets, few in the row are in original condition.
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