Rosslyn Terrace, 124 Rosslyn Street, West Melbourne
Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005Jul-99
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Rosslyn Terrace, 124 Rosslyn Street, West Melbourne
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Jul-99
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108426
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The houses at 120-124 Rosslyn Street were built in 1865. The terrace replaced three earlier wooden cottages with Average Annual Values in 1864 of £20, £10 and £10 respectively. The three cottages were acquired by W Haines and replaced the following year the three double-storey brick houses. The 1865 rate books show W Haines as the owner of one seven-room brick house (AAV £64) and two six-room brick houses (AAV £56), which were leased to Levinson Davis, and Messrs Hellerstein and Langtree. By 1889 Davis, who had continued as tenant of the larger house, had acquired the three houses, by then known as Rosslyn Terrace, and leased the middle house to a Mrs Oyston. By 1908, the two western-most houses (122-124) were occupied by John Gibson and Miss Amelia Davis. The third, house, at the east end, number 120, has been extensively altered.The houses at 120-124 Rosslyn Street are double-storey attached Victorian residences with double-storey verandahs and hipped corrugated galvanised steel roofs. The houses are of rendered masonry and share similar details, although No. 124 is wider and has a segmented arched vehicular entrance and bluestone pitched drive. The verandahs have simple timber slatted balustrading and terminated at wing walls embellished with consoles and pine cones. French doors open onto the verandah at the first floor level; ground floor windows are timber-framed double-hung sashes. Chimneys are brick with corbelled cappings. The cast iron palisade fences appear to be original or early. No. 120 has undergone the most severe alterations. A projecting double-storey wing dating from the inter-War period has been added, obscuring the original façade.Rosslyn Terrace is of local aesthetic and historic interest. Constructed in 1865, the houses are representative of the early development of the suburb in the mid-nineteenth century. Aesthetically the houses are important heritage elements in the streetscape; of particular note are the bluestone pitched drive and the carriageway.
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