Original post 16 February 2019:
Repost from 2019: In Cecil Street South Melbourne – someone’s idea of a Victorian style #terracehouse, and actually I think it’s OK – clearly not Victorian (to me anyway), but the appropriate level of detail, it’s got a verandah, fits right in. Could be 80s, could be recent. An attempt at #timelesselegance, or maybe someone who really wanted a Neoclassical Georgian number and got told to add more stuff.
So not every #terracehouse in sought-after #SouthMelbourne has been renovated. This one in #CecilStreet is a relatively rare two storey timber Victorian with original #ogee #verandah roof, but with early 20thC windows. A cheap rental ? Update 2023: now boarded up, at least on streetview. Found an old rental ad, looks like renovated early 80s, generous side garden.
15 February 2020:
This Victorian terrace in #SouthMelbourne stood out, firstly no parapet, lots of unrelieved brown #HawthornBricks, thick wing walls in brick with abstracted details, simple #cast iron balustrade with an equally restrained #greekkeymotif frieze. Solid and simple. @ South Melbourne, Victoria
Not too sure that yellow is an actual #VictorianColour, but I like how bold it is, better than just cream, which def wasn’t a popular colour. Also there’s that great interlinked circles pattern in the #castironlace again, I can see why it was popular. Coventry Street #SouthMelbourne. @ South Melbourne, Victoria
15 Feb 2019:
Done over so often it’s a mess ! But charming. Back street of South Melbourne, corner of Dow & Napier Pace. Looks like maybe once a corner shop, with that timber lintel all round, though unusual that one side is set back. Both main windows altered, the street one shrunk, the other one turned into doors, the bricks #sandblasted to bits (with unusual angled brick eaves detail), the lintel looks in bad shape, and the fence in two different bricks is just off-putting, but the #reddoor is great. The sort of very small house in a #backlane that might have been classed as a slum in the 50s/60s, when it would have been two bedrooms, a small sitting room an an outdoor loo with a family of four or more (actually not sure how that would fit if it was a shop). Now it’s a cosy #onebedroomhouse, all done up inside, and sold for $750,000 four years ago.
15 March 2019:
Grand #terracehouses for a narrow #sidestreet in #SouthMelbourne – Thomson Street. Probably 1880s. Originally #polychromebrick but all except one is painted and even that one is part painted.
19 March 2021:
A very cute pair of #bluestone cottages in a #sidestreet in #SouthMelbourne; might be 1850s, prob 1860s, all #tuckpointed random courses on the front, plain on the side, also on a street ! And a bit dilapidated from behind, looks like some renovations on the way. @ South Melbourne, Victoria
1 April 2019:
Somewhat #neglected and presumably abandoned. An almost ruinous cottage at 77 #RaglanStreet #SouthMelbourne.
Update March 2024 : it’s been demolished, and an Insta follower says the owners are planning a new house.
5 April 2019:
A very curious house in #SouthMelbourne, which is also a bit #wonky; perhaps 1850s #goldrush period, being built right on the street and simple classical details. Perhaps lost a bit of parapet.
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