Posts Tagged ‘working class’
2-4 Regent Street, Richmond. Melbourne, Victoria
Terrace Houses: 2-4 Regent Street, Richmond. Melbourne, Victoria
This pair of narrow working class cottages are situated near the Victoria Street railway bridge and are distinctive due to their rustic gothic style.
The style was mildly popular in the 1860s but seldom used in terrace houses in Victoria. As such, houses like these are quite rare in Melbourne. It features a corrugated iron roof with chimneys at its apex set back. A key feature of the terraces is the front gable with its decorative bargeboards and tall turned wood finial. Load bearing brick party walls frame each house and project to the property line.
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12-18 Fitzroy Street, Surry Hills. Sydney, New South Wales
Terrace Houses: 12-18 Fitzroy Street, Surry Hills. Sydney, New South Wales
Shown here are some Surry Hills working class terraces which are build right up to the property line and march up a subtly sloping inner city street. Their facades are bare with the exception of the ledges with their little brackets and the mouldings designed to throw rain off the double hung windows and the unsympathetically harsh but necessary security grilles on the doors and windows.
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11-63 Hackett Street, Ultimo. Sydney, New South Wales
Terrace Houses: 11-63 Hackett Street, Ultimo. Sydney, New South Wales
Hackett Street is a narrow lane which runs for just two blocks. One side of the block between Pier Street and Macarthur Street is completely lined in terrace houses. Pictured is actually three identical rows of nine double storey working class terraces.
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13-33 Louis Street, (“The Block”), Redfern. Sydney, New South Wales
13-33 Louis Street The Block Redfern Sydney New South Wales
Gentrification of terraces has come so far in Australia that it is sometimes easy to forget that just a couple of decades ago most were the forgotten and neglected homes of the working classes.
However this is still very much true in pockets of Sydney and to a lesser extent Melbourne where terraces remain low cost rentals bordering on ghettos and slums. Here is a notorious such one known as the “Louis Street row”.
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Bland Terrace: 14-32 Bland Street. Woolloomooloo. Sydney, New South Wales
Bland Terrace: 14-32 Bland Street. Woolloomooloo, New South Wales
Bland Terrace takes its name from the street it is on, Bland, and is exactly that. The row of 10 double storey late Edwardian (depression era) terraces are a little plain and nondescript, saved for its wooden and corrugated iron awnings and balconies and the horizontal bands of black bricks and cornice which define the facades.
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