First posted 9 November 2019

#ProfessionalChambers in #CollinsStreet has a rather nice entry (but they could have thought of a more inventive name!). For a while I thought maybe it wasn’t worthy of the VictorianHeritageRegister, I mean it’s a very nice example of #TudorRevival, but there are plenty of them, though maybe not so many Edwardian ones as city buildings. It was built 1908, and designed by #UssherAndKemp, who were busy doing a bunch of Edwardian houses, having been one of the introducers of the style c1899, so theres a fair bit of Edwardian here amongst the Tudor details, like the arch, the #redbrick, and of course the lovely #leadlight.

10 April 2025

It was fortunately saved from possible #demolition in 1977 when the whole front portion was placed on the Heritage Register, and since 1991 the back has been visible from inside 120 Collins. It’s been various shops ever since (update : was Paul Smith, not sure what’s there now?). Funfact: my grandfather’s dental practice was here – he died before I was born, but in the 80s I went to the dentists there who took over his practice, and it was v interesting lying in the chair front ground floor watching tram pantographs go by…..

photos 2015, c1908, 2024

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