54-56 Provost Street, North Melbourne
Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005Jul-99
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54-56 Provost Street, North Melbourne
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Jul-99
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107752 107753
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Grading as at 1991 : DPeriod : Early Victorian , constructed 1872Isaac Gidney, a horsedealer, owned property in Provost Street, which was described in the 1871 rate book as a 'shed and yard' valued at £10. The following year, he had erected a pair of three-room brick dwellings on the site, each valued at £19. These houses, now Nos 54 and 56 Provost Street, were initially occupied, respectively, by William Powell, a draper, and Henry Brandley, a carpenter. The houses remained in the ownership of Isaac Gidney for almost 25 years, during which time they were occupied by a rapid succession of tenants that included a cooper, a constable, a plasterer, a labourer, a clerk, a turner, a plate layer and a railway employee. After Gidney's death, the two houses passed into the hands of his widow, Mrs Mary Gidney. She died two years later and the houses were acquired by John Dott who continued to rent them out.They comprise a pair of single-storey, single-fronted nineteenth century brick dwellings, now painted, with a transverse gabled slate roof penetrated by a shared bichromatic brick chimney. A corrugated galvanised steel verandah extends across the street fronts of both houses, with a timber partition wall constructed at the common boundary. The façade of each house has a single timber-framed double-hung sash window and timber entrance door with a highlight window. Remnants of the cast iron fencing may remain.They are of local historical and aesthetic interest. They are an intact and typical example of the sort of the simple workers' housing that proliferated in the inner suburbs in the late nineteenth century. The houses are important elements in this part of Provost Street, which is largely Victorian in nature.
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