Silloth Terrace, 151-161 Flemington Road, North Melbourne
Butler, Graeme18/01/1985
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Silloth Terrace, 151-161 Flemington Road, North Melbourne
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18/01/1985
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BIF-NORTH 103834 103835 103836 103837 103838 103839
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Derived from GRAEME BUTLER 1983, CONSERVATION STUDY FOR THE CITY OF MELBOURNE OF NORTH AND WEST MELBOURNEDATE: 1884;ASSOCIATIONS: John Barwise;Grading as at 1985 : CPeriod : Victorian-era (1884)Crown Grantee : C Da Foncecca 1864___________________________History- This row of 6 houses were built for John Barwise in 1884. Barwise owned the terrace until at least 1895, during which time it was occupied chiefly by professional classes, e.g. Edward Miles, minister, Samuel Montague, teacher; John Fox, estate agent; Robert Patey, solicitor; and Dan Lovelock, auctioneer.The name John Barwise has been..'honourably identified'..with the area since it became an independent municipality in 1859. [Cyclopedia of Victoria Vol III, p 120] After arriving in 1852 from Cumberland, England, he took up carting to the goldfields and settled in Hotham. He was a member of the first council, [Mattingley "The Early history of North Melbourne" Victorian Historical Journal February 1917 p 85] remaining there on and off until 1874, and then from 1890-1905, and was mayor on several occasions. He was also on the Board of the Benevolent Asylum, and a great supporter of St Mary's Anglican Church. [Cyclopedia of Victoria Vol III p 120ff] [The Age obituary 27 September 1909 p 5] He was a most energetic local patron, and his firm, John Barwise and Son, was a well respected Hay Merchant. [Cyclopedia of Victoria loc cit] He lived at 44 Chapman Street, at the rear of this Terrace.Description- A row of two-storeyed stuccoed brick houses with two-level cast-iron verandahs: each with balustraded parapets and central rectangular entablatures which are surmounted and flanked by cement scrolls. Iron picket fences are continuous across each frontage and divide front gardens, whilst the cast-iron balustrade iron is of a guilloche pattern and the friezes and integral brackets of a deep, foliated design with nail-head mouldings to the upper column shaft.Significance- Architecturally, a conservative, but competently designed, almost intact row where the only unusual aspect is the iron picket dividing fences which enhance the relatively deep set back; the rectangular entablatures relate to rows of the 1870s. Historically, associated with perhaps North Melbourne's most prominent public figure of the 19th century: of regional importance.___________________________see attached BUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM for GRAEME BUTLER 1983, CONSERVATION STUDY FOR THE CITY OF MELBOURNE OF NORTH AND WEST MELBOURNE citation.
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