11-17 Provost Street, North Melbourne
Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005Jul-99
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11-17 Provost Street, North Melbourne
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Jul-99
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107735 107736 107737 107738
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Grading as at 1999 : DPeriod : Early Victorian, constructed 1860The terraces at 11-17 Provost Street first appear in the rate book for 1860, described only as four houses valued at £38 each. They were owned by a Mr Kirkhouse, and occupied by Matthew Johnson, Michael Reed, George Evans and John Mahan. The next year, the houses were described more specifically as being of brick, and, by 1867, as four-room brick dwellings. Around 1865, pattern-maker Robert Bodycombe had acquired Nos. 15 and 17, while Kirkhouse retained ownership of Nos. 11 and 13, and this arrangement continued until at least 1890. During this time the houses were occupied by a succession of short-tenants including a salesman. a messenger (official council messenger, John Kingston), a painter, a bricklayer, carpenters, and several labourers. Bodycombe himself briefly occupied number 17 in the late 1860s. The longest serving tenant was William Young, a mason, who lived at number 11 from 1869 to the mid 1880s.It is a row of nineteenth century, double-storey dwellings of rendered brick construction. The houses share a hipped corrugated galvanised steel roof and two rendered brick chimneys, which are shared. The houses at No. 11 and 13 have corrugated galvanised steel roofed verandahs separated by painted brick walls while the verandahs to Nos. 15 and 17 have been replaced with brick balconies with wrought iron balustrading. Windows have timber-framed double-hung sashes; except those to Nos. 15 and 17, which have been converted into French windows.They are of local historical and aesthetic interest. The houses, which are typical of the restrained housing style of the 1860s, demonstrate a particularly early and important phase of residential settlement in the area. Although two of the houses have been altered superficially, the collective row remains a prominent and important element in the streetscape.
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