Repost from 2014 :

#crazyhouse, 3 Westgarth Street, #fitzroy.
Probably a 1960s #renovation of a #terracehouse perhaps by an Italian immigrant concreter but who knows ? Looks like made of leftovers from an office block or shopping centre. Definitely #featurism, as #robinboyd would say. I love it. Graded ‘non contributory’ in the heritage precinct, but to be fair that’s all about Victorian and Edwardian terraces. Update 2024 : if it was a terrace house not much left, part of the roof is flat ! Side walls look maybe Edwardian red brick. Some real estate shots of inside from 2015 show typically migrant huge kitchen, tiled floor, and maybe a 1910s picture rail.

2021: still there, I’m told now a share house, hence no ads.

Two more similar homes in Fitzroy, photographed by David Waddleton, at 46 Alexandra Pde near the corner of Hilton Street, and 94 Freeman Street Fitzroy. Wonder if they somehow influenced each other ? Actually looking closer the first one seems entirely new, while the second might be new, hard to tell.

And a third one at 68 Bennett Street North Fitzroy, definitely a post war alteration of a terrace, love the concrete logs ! Photo supplied by @inner_north_heritage_lesson

And a pair of houses at 5 and 7 Coote Street, South Melbourne, no 5 (left) more interesting and probably originally Edwardian, no 7 possibly completely new, both bringing good taste 50s suburban style to the inner city, rather than being particularly original.

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