12 December 2016:
This great office/ house terminates the mini vista down ballarat street in villagey downtown Yarraville. It was built in 1887 but now looks quite different. It had single storey shops either side, the closest one demolished, with a verandah across all three. It also had a big parapet on top. That all changed in c1931 when it became a bank, removing the verandah and replacing the shop front in a matching Victorian style, leaving it looking very refined classical instead of the typically elaborate Victorian it once was. It was originally built by W H Roberts, local politician and bigwig who lived in the fabbo Victorian Tudor style ‘Tudor House’ in Williamstown.
Storey of Melbourne 