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Bayview House: 28 Ingles Street, Port Melbourne. Melbourne, Victoria
Bayview House: 23 Ingles Street. Port Melbourne, Victoria
Bayview House is a narrow boom style terrace in a beautifully preserved row of three villas neighbouring an Edwardian terrace presumably named for the glimpses of Port Phillip which once would have been seen from its upper balcony.
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195 Adderley Street, West Melbourne. Victoria
Terrace House: 195 Adderley Street, West Melbourne. Victoria
This is a great little freestanding terrace on the fringe of Melbourne’s CBD which shows a free spirited approach to design. The house is rich in textures, materials and ornament. There are even cherub statuettes on the party walls, something quite rare for Australian terrace houses. The terrace has an intricate “Hawthorn brick” facade. Refined details focused on the chimney, cornice and party walls.
747-755 Park Street, Brunswick. Melbourne, Victoria
Terrace Houses: 747-755 Park Street, Brunswick. Melbourne, Victoria
There are several rows of terraces lining Park Street and overlooking the northern end of Royal Park, however this row of five is probably the most distinguished.
What differentiates this row is their width and that mirror each other in a row of perfect symmetry. Each house has high parapet marked by a triangular pediment framed by scroll corbels and flanked by large decorative urns in the italianate style which effectively hides hipped roofs.
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Pulteney House and St Frances House: 45-47 Carlisle Street, St Kilda. Melbourne, Victoria
St Frances House (45) and Pulteney House (47) Carlisle Street, St Kilda
Despite the efforts of multi-storey flats in recent years, the 1880s boom style terraces of Puteney House and St Frances House still dominate the streetscape between the Barkly Street and St Kilda Road junctions of Carlisle Street. The pair of white double storey “Melbourne style” or “Boom style” terraces form a small row with prominent classical parapets.
The parapets are dressed classical triangular pediments with blind balustrades and urns forming twin Palladian motifs over a decorative frieze of repeated swags in the style of elaborate Italianate villas. The terraces themselves are dressed in classical adornment with flat arched bay windows at the bases.
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