Original 20 January 2021: Spotted in #AlmaRoad St Kilda – a delightful house, with a corner turret and side entrance. Could be c1890 or c1900. Doesn’t appear to have any info in the port phillip heritage review, but is graded as ‘significant’.
Update 2024: for sale now, real estate listing shows inside is grand but plain, looking more like 1900, with those arched bay windows, but says its 1890, in which case it’s rather advanced. Hmmm so researching on Trove it seems it was called Eastcliff, and the home of Isaac Barnet later in his life, who did well in the jewellery business, and had been on various charity boards, and – surprise ! – was father of Nahum Barnet, who was a successful and sometimes forward thinking architect by the 1880s – so presumably the house was designed by him. Earliest mention I could find was 1896, so could be 1890 after all. Further info from a port phillip heritage planner – a house under construction here for Isaac Barnet was noted in 1888-9, and Nahum Barnet called for tenders for a two storey house in St Kilda in 1888, so yes most likely he designed it. Quite advanced, with elements that later defined Edwardian, like using plain red brick, an entrance on the side, a corner turret, with pointy roof, and the two arched bay windows inside.
Someone last time told me the verandah was rebuilt in the last 20 years ? And yes streetview 2009 shows no verandah, and in 2013 there is one. Now I’m thinking that since the verandah is plain with typical cast iron maybe the original one looked different.
Also that back room with the 1920s beveled glass window look like an addition.
Storey of Melbourne 