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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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Sobraon: 17-21 Ormond Street, Paddington, New South Wales
Sobraon is a magnificent row of three storey terrace houses in Paddington, Sydney is an unusual Italianate composition. The name could have come from a clipper of the same name which was regularly moored at Rose Bay between 1867-1871 and the largest composite ship ever built1 (itself named for a war in Punjab India in the 1840s) the sails and masts which may well have once been visible in the distant harbour from the rear of these homes. The mid terrace is notably wider than either flanking terrace.
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59-63 Mundy Street, Bendigo. Victoria
Terrace Houses: "Glentrool" (59), "Garlies" (61) and "Galloway" (63) Mundy Street, Bendigo. Victoria
This row of three single storey houses caught my eye on the fringe of Bendigo’s CBD. They are a simple red brick symmetrical row of Victorian era terraces in polychrome and unpainted render. But what I found most interesting about them was the step profile of the parapet along the side of the end terrace facing Bramble Street which cascades like a waterfall. The names of the terraces are in a recessed cartouche on each house : “Glentrool” (59), “Garlies” (61) and “Galloway” (63) and apparently named after forrests in Scotland.
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Karlsrue: 34 Fitzroy Street, Kirribilli. Sydney, New South Wales
Karlsrue: 34 Fitzroy Street, Kirribilli. Sydney, New South Wales. Image by Sardaka
Perhaps the most impressive feature of this tall freestanding Victorian terrace in Sydney’s inner north is the triple storey verandah, replete with iron lacework. Although the upper storey with its bullnose roof is missing its brackets the terrace has fringes, brackets and decorative cast iron columns on every level. This is rare for a Sydney terrace as most typically have verandahs only the bottom or bottom two storeys.
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300-308 Malvern Road, Prahran. Melbourne, Victoria
Terraced Houses: 300-308 Malvern Road, Prahran. Melbourne, Victoria
This row of five wide terraced homes forms an important Victorian streetscape in Prahran. It is set back from the street, looking out to the brooding large Commission Towers of the Prahran government housing estate opposite.
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