January 2026
Very grand house on Beaconsfield Parade West St Kilda that must have been built c1900, since it’s much like like a Victorian one, but with various Edwardian details – for intact there’s the very Edwardian gable up front, and timber detailing to the verandah, but also Victorian cast iron lace and two-tone brickwork behind. I particularly like the very bulbous columns.
It was up for sale in 2024, and again last year, so lots of interior shots with different furniture – a very nice leadlight and fretwork door, some big Queen Anne ovetmantels, a cast iron oven range (original ?), and a ‘former lift’, wood panelled. In a heritage overlay but no individual listing, so no historical facts.
Update : it was built c1907 for Mr Andrew Stenhouse, a businessman from NZ and Broken Hill, who donated the funds for the Captain Cook statue on the foreshore in 1914. He died aged 81 in 1918, and Mrs had died 1909. Old photo is 1920s it’s the one on the right.
Storey of Melbourne 