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2-4 Harker Street, North Melbourne

Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005July 1999

Record details

Title:

Creator:

Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005

Date of work:

July 1999

Reference number:

BIF-NORTH 104696 104697

Level of description:

Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)

Type of materials:

Graphic materialsTextual material

Part of:

Series: North Melbourne and West Melbourne (BIF-NORTH)

Access restrictions:

UnrestrictedOpen access.

Use restrictions:

UnrestrictedPlease contact City of Melbourne Libraries about obtaining permission to reproduce images.

General notes:

The two houses at 2-4 Harker Street are part of a row of three similar houses erected in 1873. They first appear in rate books in December of that year, described as a row of three-room brick dwellings, each owned by Patrick Noonan and valued at £19. Noonan, a labourer, himself lived in the house at Number 6 and rented the other two, which were initially occupied by Robert Chambers, a draper, and Fillmore Fagg, a carter. Mr Noonan passed away in 1878, and from then until at least 1900, rate books list the owner as Mrs Noonan.These houses are a pair of single-storey, nineteenth century houses which are constructed in painted brick under a common corrugated galvanised steel roof. The verandah extending across the two facades also has a common roof of corrugated galvanised steel. The verandah at Number 2 is supported by timber posts forming part of the front fence. The front facades are mirrored, with an entrance door to one side and a central timber-framed double-hung sash window. Both houses retain brick chimneys with corbelled capping.They are of local historical and aesthetic interest, being typical of the simple worker's housing that proliferated in North Melbourne in the 1870s and '80s, and as such demonstrate a particular phase of residential settlement in the area. They contribute to the overall Victorian nature of Harker Street.

Names:

City of Melbourne

Topics:

Conservation studiesNorth and West Melbourne Conservation StudyEarly-mid Victorian period (1851-1875)1870-1879Brick housesVerandahsRoofs

Places:

North Melbourne (Vic.)

Form/Genre:

Building Identification Forms (BIFs)

Record types:

Images, maps and artefacts

Record number:

1337112