Moore's Cottages, 12-20 Chetwynd Street, and 62-74 Rosslyn Street, West Melbourne
Butler, Graeme14/01/1985
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Moore's Cottages, 12-20 Chetwynd Street, and 62-74 Rosslyn Street, West Melbourne
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14/01/1985
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BIF-NORTH 101971 506139 506140 715720 719272 719273
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Grading as at 1985 : CPeriod : Early Victorian (1868)Grantee : J Harbison 1859In 1868, these houses took their name from their first owner, Doctor George Moore, a Queensberry Street surgeon. He leased them to a great range of people including John Piggott, Ephraim Hill, Johanna Cantwell, Charles Templeton and Hugh James. The row was built by Thomas Noble, a local builder. [Melbourne Building Permit Applications 2499 11/3/1868]A single-storey, stuccoed brick row of five houses in Chetwynd Street and a former corner grocer's shop at 74 Rosslyn Street, hemi-exagonal in plan, which links this row with another similar row of Moore's Cottages in Rosslyn Street. The houses have transverse gabled iron roofs, doors placed in pairs, single windows and are all built on the street alignment. Notable features include early street side frontage.Architecturally, of a simple early form with little architectural distinction individually, but as continuous rows, closely matched to the streets' irregular junction angle and the small confined scale evokes this early period well: of regional significance. Historically, a development by a local resident and a local builder, typical of the introversion of much of the area's speculative development: of local interest.
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