33-37 Provost Street, North Melbourne
Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005Jul-99
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33-37 Provost Street, North Melbourne
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Jul-99
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107742 107743 107744
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Grading as at 1999 : DPeriod : Early VictorianThe rate book of 1874 indicates that a Mr Graham owned an 'empty' four-room timber house on Provost Street. In the rate book for the following year, Graham's house had disappeared, and S Thornton had erected a row of three three-room brick houses, each valued at £19, on the site. At that time, the middle house, now No. 35, was occupied by John Bailey, a clerk, while the other two houses were still vacant. The following year, Thornton was renting the three houses to Alex Carmichael, a clerk, Edward Spink, a jam manufacturer, and John Owenson a bootmaker. A succession of shirt term tenants followed. Subsequent rate books showed that Thornton still owned the houses in 1891, by which time the houses were occupied by James Hill, a labourer, Samuel Robinson, also a labourer, and William Banks, a french polisher.It is a row of single-storey and single-fronted nineteenth century houses of rendered brick construction. The houses share a steeply-pitched transverse gabled roof clad in corrugated galvanised steel, with one chimney remaining on one side boundary wall, the others apparently removed. A verandah extends across the front elevations, Nos. 33 and 37 having cast iron brackets and No. 35 having a cast iron frieze. Each house has a single timber-framed double-hung sash window and panelled entrance door with a fanlight. None of the front fences appear to be original.They are of local historical and aesthetic interest. Individually, they are typical examples of the sort of simple worker's housing that proliferated in the inner suburbs in the late nineteenth century. As a group, they are an important element in the streetscape.
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