17 June 2024
Distinctive house at 1 Loch Street St Kilda, with a very unusual rough face stone look, which I actually find a bit unattractive. It looks a lot like bluestone but it’s actually precast blocks of some sort, you can see that the pattern repeats; probably early concrete blocks, since machinery for making them was imported c1905 for instance for a set of 1908 shops in Maffra now on the Heritage Register. Was all flaking white paint until recently, now it’s grey, but probably sandstone coloured originally. Found some real estate photos, not sure of date, but looking untouched since perhaps 1975. There’s actually another matching house behind presumably built the same time. The Maffra example is nicer, smooth blocks with vermiculated quoins, rather than all over rough.
Storey of Melbourne 