Posts Tagged ‘urns’

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Saltaire: 8 Thorn Street. Essendon, Victoria

Standing as a lone freestanding suburban terrace house overlooking Lincoln Park in Essendon is this landmark Victorian home in the Australian filigree style.

The polychrome brick terrace has many classical features to indicate its Italiante style, while its overall composition is distinctively eclectic.  Read more... (453 words, 5 images, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

Freestanding Terrace: 34 Park Place, South Yarra. Melbourne, VIC

This freestanding boom style terrace in great condition was originally built in 1891 by Alfred Taylor and is part of a subdivision with direct frontage to beautiful Fawkner Park.

The terrace itself is an flamboyant composition with typical Melbourne features including a high parapet of classical entablature with a triangular pediment topping a festoon in moulded stucco and flanked by scrolls and a balustrade.  Urns on either side complete the Italianate silhouette.   The party walls are clearly defined and feature another pair of urns with lions heads on the upper storey and female heads on the lower storey staring out over the park with wide scrolls in between.  A bold cornice sits between the party walls and is propped up with dentils and a frieze of classically inspired mouldings including floral paterae.  Read more... (296 words, 5 images, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)

Oberon: 215 Lydiard Street, Soldiers Hill. Ballarat, Victoria

Oberon is a freestanding single storey Italianate villa in the terrace house style. It has been adaptively used as offices.

The house features what can best be described as a highly refined florid facade. In this design, the three most important elements – parapet, verandah and openings are given maximum emphasis in detail.  Read more... (412 words, 5 images, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Terrace Style House: 21 Hill Street, Hawthorn. Melbourne, Victoria

21 Hill Street is a richly detailed double storey house which is built in the terrace style although freestanding.

This grand terrace features a hipped slate roof culminated in a central chimney above bracketed eaves – a design theme repeated elsewhere.

The verandah is the most important statement of this terrace. This is accentuated by the central breakfront triangular pediment propped up on cast iron columns and projected with wood brackets and a very short fringe to execute a temple effect. The pediment also features a decorative patterned cartouche inside of wooden fretwork or cast iron. The emphasis on the temple is accentuated further by the unusual relationship of a single central cast iron column below supporting the upper storey.  Read more... (389 words, 5 images, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Hollyford: 57 St Vincent Place Sth, Albert Park. Melbourne, Victoria

Hollyford is a spectacular double fronted Victorian villa in the terrace style found overlooking Albert Parks beautiful St Vincents Gardens.  Built in 1873 in polychrome brick and render, this single storey terraced house features incredible detail typically associated with the Melbourne “boom style”.  Read more... (364 words, 5 images, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)