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Benalla Cottages, 44-50 Dryburgh Street, West Melbourne

Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005July 1991

Record details

Title:

Creator:

Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005

Date of work:

July 1991

Reference number:

BIF-NORTH 102938 102937 102936 102935

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:

Grading as at 1999 : DPeriod : mid-late Victorian, Construction date, 1884-1890This row of four cottages, formerly known as 35-41 Dryburgh Street, was erected in two stages. The Sands & McDougall directory for 1884 lists no houses on the east side of Dryburgh Street between Ireland and Miller Streets. The following year, a pair of houses had appeared, listed as 'Benalla Cottages' and occupied by Mrs Elizabeth Kerr and Frederick Baker. The directory for 1891 records that another pair of houses had been erected. This is a row of four single-storey, single-fronted Victorian terrace houses. The walls are of rendered masonry, and the transverse gable roofs are clad in corrugated galvanised steel. The verandahs span between rendered wing walls, and those at Numbers 46-50 have cast iron decoration. The facades have double-hung sashes and timber doors. Numbers 46-50 retain their rendered brick chimneys with corbelled cappings. They are of local historical and aesthetic interest being representative of the type of modest workers' housing that proliferated in Melbourne's inner suburbs in the late nineteenth century. Aesthetically, the row is a prominent element in the largely Victorian residential streetscape.

Names:

City of Melbourne

Topics:

Conservation studiesNorth and West Melbourne Conservation Study1880-1889CottagesTerrace housesVerandahsCity of Melbourne Heritage Review 1999

Places:

West Melbourne (Vic.)

Form/Genre:

Building Identification Forms (BIFs)

Record types:

Images, maps and artefacts

Record number:

1289056