Australian Terrace Houses

Vaughn Terrace: 49-53 Raleigh Street, Windsor. Melbourne, Victoria

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:32:52 +0000

Vaughn Terrace is a delightful little row of three single storey Italianate villas. The terraces feature oversized parapets and ornament typical of the late 1880s. The mid terrace carries the row’s name on its parapet. A most interesting feature of this terrace is the motif on the frieze of overlapping circles which demands visual attention. [...]

77-79 Grey Street, St Kilda. Melbourne, Victoria

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:12:08 +0000

This architecturally fascinating eclectic double storey terraced pair located on once fashionable but now seedy St Kilda Hill features aspects of both Federation and Queen Anne styles merged with the terrace house idiom with its distinctive “blood and bandage” red brick and cream render. A picturesque effect is achieved through the central gable parapet along [...]

987 Bourke Street, Waterloo. Sydney, New South Wales

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:16:13 +0000

While Bourke Street in Redfern and Darlinghurst is more known for terrace housing busy Bourke Street in Waterloo is mostly industrial. There is however a small section of late 19th Century workers cottages along the street in Waterloo with a handful of double storey houses. This house is one of the northernmost of this stretch, [...]

25 Gawler Street. Portland, Victoria

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:43:08 +0000

Historic Portland, Victoria’s first settlement and early whaling colony has a number of remnant timber and bluestone cottages that are similar in some ways to terrace housing. This unusual single storey row of three terraces was the result of a 1913-14 extension of a former hotel known as the “Builder’s Inn”, one of Portland’s earliest [...]

Premier Terrace 2-12 Wentworth Park Road Glebe Sydney New South Wales

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:06:14 +0000

This row of six double storey Italianate terraces enscribed “Premier Terrace” (centre parapet), fronts Wentworth Park along the busy but tree lined Wentworth Road in Sydney’s Glebe between Mitchell Street and Park Lane and is serviced by Mitchell Lane. The style is typical of the Italianate terraces of the late 1870s and early 1880s but [...]

105 High Street. Ararat, Victoria

admin — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:07:09 +0000

Attached housing is rare in Ararat, a gold rush city, however a handful of single storey examples can still be found, mostly on the main roads leading into town. This particular pair can be found north of the Western Highway between King and Princes Street and backs onto the railway reserve within very close proximity [...]

86-92 Union Street, Pyrmont. Sydney, New South Wales

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:24:08 +0000

This row of four double storey shophouses in Sydney’s Pyrmont were originally terrace houses built in 1890 but they’ve suffered quite a lot in the conversion. uThe ground floor has been completely altered to accomodate shopfronts and the iron lacework of the double storey verandah has been modernised with a wrought iron replacement. Although their [...]

Riversleigh: 3-5 Nicholson Street. Bairnsdale, Victoria

admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:49:31 +0000

Riversleigh is Bairnsdale’s most majestic pair of terrace houses. Built in 1883-4 and attributed to R T Vincent1 tThe semi-detached pair was built to maximise views across the magnificent Mitchell River on the northern edge of the central business district. It is part of a heritage precinct which includes neighbouring Wahroonga mansion and the Bairnsdale [...]

Strathearn: 92-98 Bull Street Cooks Hill Newcastle New South Wales

admin — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:12:33 +0000

We’re attempting to correct an imbalance thusfar on this site against Newcastle, a fantastic city that is home to some of Australia’s most interesting terrace housing, with this row of four that caught the eye of our own Michael Gardner. Named Strathearn and erected in the inner suburb of Cooks Hill in 1889 it displays [...]

Callender House: 355 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill. Brisbane, Queensland

admin — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:39:43 +0000

This little pair of attached houses dates back to 1863 and was designed by the reknowned local architect Robert Smith Dods1. Originally each house was comprised of five rooms and a kitchen.2 The building later became known as Callender House and had long been associated with members of the church. Architecturally, its unusual symmetry is [...]