William Daffern's houses, 9-11 Little Provost Street, North Melbourne
Butler, Graeme11/01/1985
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William Daffern's houses, 9-11 Little Provost Street, North Melbourne
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GRAEME BUTLER 1983, CONSERVATION STUDY FOR THE CITY OF MELBOURNE OF NORTH AND WEST MELBOURNEGrading as at 1985 : DPeriod : Early Victorian (c1859)Grantee : P Hayes 1854History- The first owner of these houses was William Daffern. In 1859 a two-roomed house was built and added to in 1866 with a timber extension. This extension is later described in 1872 as being brick without an increase in the rateable value. By this time it was owned by the same Mr. Solomon who owned 7 Little Provost Street. For a short time, they were owned separately, about 1875, when one of the owners was James Cheese, the Hotham butcher (Refer to 16 Molesworth Street). By 1885 they had both passed into the hands of Thomas Rivers who leased them to such folk as Walter Tyrell, a butcher, William Francis, a labourer and William Stewart, an ironworker.Description- A minute pair of transverse gabled and parapetted row houses: one (9) with an arched doorway, the other with a flat-headed opening. Floor level coincides with the stone plinth and no stair is provided.Integrity - The building may have been face brick as 3; windows have been replaced.Streetscape - Part Qf a row of small narrow frontage cottages of the 1850-60s, confined in a narrow street.Significance- Architecturally, a distinguishably early building which is generally original and part of a similarly early streetscapes: of regional interest. Historically, remnant of the earliest cottage types in the area's history, built typically in narrow streets and evoking North Melbourne's role as an area of cheap housing in the post-gold period.Recommendations –• Repaint in typical colours;• consider zoning provisions to maintain original use and form;• remove paint from stone plinth.References:(RB= Rate book; D= Melbourne or Victoria Directory)1. RB 1859, 940; .R8 1866-6, 1058; ,RB 1872-73, 2054,S; RB 1876-76, 2117, 2118; RB 1885-86. 2134, 2135; RB 1895-6, 2069, 2070___________________________RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2025:Resembles 5-7 Little Provost Street as a more intact example.
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