Showing posts with label Wollongong Rd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wollongong Rd. Show all posts

Monday, 25 February 2008

Victorian Domestic Architecture: some more modest examples!

Modified Victorian cottages, Wollongong Rd

'Tardis' , Stanley St (bigger inside than it looks on the outside, just like Dr Who's police phone box, I guess!
Victoria St
Old coach house/stables at rear of Victoria St terrace


78 Wollongong Rd



Wollongong Rd
Semis, Stanley St
Semis, Stanley St




71 Hirst St



23 Walters St



16 and 18 Wollongong Rd


16 Mitchell St. A lovely modest weatherboard cottage






9 Dowling St



1 Dowling St


3-4 Mitchell St. Terrace-style semis

Victorian Domestic Architecture: Belmont and Fairview, built 1881


Fairview. 197 Wollongong Rd


Belmont: 215 Wollongong Rd

Brothers Thomas and Alexander Milsop were attracted to Australia in 1852 by gold discoveries in Victoria. They failed to make their fortunes there or in New Zealand. They then struck it rich on the Kurrajong goldfield near Forbes in NSW.

The Milsop brothers moved to Wollongong Rd in 1881, purchasing six acres each and erecting two identical houses, Belmont and Fairview. Alexander became the first Mayor of Hurstville.

I don't know anything about their current use, but supect they are either boarding houses, halfway houses or some kind of rehabilitation centres.