18 December 2024

A scoot around Charnwood Road/ Grove /Crescent in St Kilda, east of St Kilda Road – first, a wild Spanishy house from 1928, designed by Leslie Reed (who later did some Tudor shops in Toorak), right next door a more restrained Mediterranean style house from 1927 by Lewis Levy. Then a great pink Victorian, no architect or exact date but after 1873 (possibly 1880), looking rather American both in verticality and colour (and recently sold, hence interior shots), then a Queen Anne style terrace pair possibly 1890, but definitely there by 1898. Lastly a rather odd house from c1871, with a pyramidal roof, now offices in a sea of paving, with an cantilvered porch instead of the original verandah, also once with a matching house to the left. These streets were created in c1868, by subdividing the huge Charnwood estate, with the road curving round the retained mansion, demolished in 1963.

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