Building histories & places

Place

East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 180, Stanford House

A photo of c.1934 shows a large symmetrical house. The central section has a steep roof with attic windows, and is flanked by Italianate pavillions, each with a bay window.

Place

East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 200, Rosebank

Two storey, double fronted house with cast iron verandah and balcony. Central front door flanked by bay windows. Above, three tri-partite windows.

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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 206, Valetta House

A stucco-faced dwelling in a restrained version of the Regency style, remarkable for Palladian massing with two axes of symmetry and corner pavilions.

A terrace of three two storey houses designed to look like one house. The central house has an unusual portico of giant order Corinthian columns. An interesting comparison is Clarendon House, Nile, near Launceston, Tasmania, built in 1838 for James Cox, which also has a portico o...

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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 220, Victoria House

The building is a modern derivation of the Tudor style. It possesses an arcaded corbel table at the parapet, tall grouped chimney stacks on a common shaft, two symmetrically placed oriel windows; and grouped windows, utilising the pointed arch. The side elevations are gabled, wit...

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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 226, Rathmore

The house is double storey, asymmetrically planned and constructed of red brick. At ground floor level a single wide arch screens the verandah from the street. It is rendered with rough cast cement which merges with the balustrade of the balcony above. The roof over the balcony a...

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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 228, 230, Clarendon Flats

This two-storey building was designed as a block of six self-contained flats. It is constructed of red brick and forms an important part of the red brick group of 226, 224, 222 and 220 Clarendon Street. Render bands run vertically linking each ground floor window with the window...

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East Melbourne, Darling Street 002, 004, 006, 008, 010

A terrace of five cottages

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Cottage

Workshop

Cottage

Place

East Melbourne, Fitzroy Gardens old kiosk

A two storey structure of rustic appearance with half timbered gables and deep verandahs. Its focal point was the octagonal bandstand at the corner of the building.

No 16 George Street was built by Robert Dixon for himself in 1869. The Rate Books described it as a two storey house of six rooms on a block of land having a 66 foot frontage to George Street. It was double-fronted.

A block of eighteen flats. Built of brick with a Tudor-Byzantine exterior, with Spanish influence. Decorative brickwork and painted incised render. Art deco interiors

Two blocks of 1930's style flats with strong horizontal and vertical accentuation to the facade. They are interesting for their site planning and inward looking outlook to an extensive central garden. The principal building materials are cream brick with tapestry brick, brown bri...

A pair of two storey, single fronted houses of brick and stone, now cement rendered

Stone house

The houses at 48-50 George Street comprise a pair of semi-detached, nineteenth century, Italianate single-storey residences with basements. The facade is rendered with a moulded cornice and plain parapet extending across both houses. Wing walls have curved parapets and decorative...

Two storey double fronted house with simple facade

Number 55 is a three storey building presenting an asymmetrical facade to the street and exhibiting an understated marriage of Modern and Georgian details in salmon coloured brick. The facade is dominated by a facetted entry rising through the full height of the building with quo...

Pair of two storey brick houses

A two storey block of flats constructed in 1934 and drawing inspiration from Georgian and Regency sources. Lisieux House is a substantial symmetrical building, its front sections finished in white painted render and surmounted by a roof of terracotta tiles. The street elevation i...

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East Melbourne, George Street 108, Varzin

Large two storey house, with symmetrical facade having central doorway with bay windows each side on ground floor. Brickwork at ground floor level laid in alternating bands of light and dark brick. A tennis court lay to the east of the house.