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19 Park Street St Kilda West. Melbourne, Victoria
Former terrace houses now apartments: 19 Park Street St Kilda West. Melbourne, Victoria
Sometimes adaptive reuse can be a bad thing and this complex in tree lined Park Street is a prime example.
While it was not uncommon for terraces to have their balconies built in to create more room, this early 1980s curtain wall job to create 24 apartments from 4 large terrace houses is more than a little brutal.
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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.
367-368 Beaconsfield Parade, St Kilda West. Melbourne, Victoria
Terrace Houses: 367-368 Beaconsfield Parade, St Kilda West. Melbourne, Victoria
On Beaconsfield Parade opposite a small triangular reserve, Catani Gardens and West Beach in St Kilda, can be found what remains of a truly special row of Melbourne terrace houses. Only 2 of the original spectacular row of 5 houses remain. The State Library of Victoria records this terrace as 3 storeys, perhaps because their photographs do not show the sunken English style basement floor. Although bastardised the remaining terraces are three bays wide and retain some of their original features.
301-303 Beaconsfield Parade, St Kilda West. Melbourne, Victoria
301-303 Beaconsfield Parade. St Kilda West, Victoria
This picture shows 301-303 Beaconsfield Parade, a dainty single storey row of three Edwardian terraces. Pictured is a real estate sign declaring “no heritage overlay”. The terrace is located in the City of Port Phillip, however without any heritage protection this row may yet become victim to the current rampant overdevelopment of this prime beachfront address. Edwardian terrace rows (longer than a semi detached pair) are quite rare in this part of Melbourne and in Melbourne as a whole.
Rochelle: 3 Mary Street, St Kilda West. Melbourne, Victoria
Rochelle: 3 Mary Street. St Kilda West, Victoria
The rounded pediment on the parapet of this freestanding terrace house proudly displays both name and date (“circa 1910″) in an oval shape, however this does not look like a 1910 terrace. The neo-classical style of this terrace is more akin to the Victorian Regency style of the mid 1880s boom style, so the date appears a little anachronous to say the least. However it is inkeeping with the terraces in the surrounding area, with the terraces there resulting in a relatively late subdivision.
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