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TERRACE

Location 14-18 MORRISON PLACE EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY File Number 602612 Level Registered

[1/3] TERRACE SOHE 2008 [2/3] 1 terrace 14 & 18 morrison [3/3] H0854 H0854 plan

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The terrace at 14-18 Morrison Place is a row of three houses constructed in two phases. Peter Cunningham was the builder of nos. 16 and 18 in 1867. 14 Morrison Place was designed by the architect J W Lockwood in 1889 to match the existing pair. The three two-storey rendered brick houses form a terrace with an arcade of depressed arches on the ground floor. There are three bays to both 16 and 18 and two slightly elongated bays to 14. The upper storey of windows are similarly arranged as two groups of three to 16 and 18 and one group of two slightly wider-spaced windows to 14. The upper-floor windows are all finished with the same moulded hood, architrave and bracketed sills. The string course to the upper storey is expressed as a cornice running across the keystones to the ground floor arches. A plain parapet hides the roofline. 14 has retained a more original interior than Nos. 16 and 18. It includes pressed-metal panelled doors and parquetry floors in the entrance hall and front room. An original cast-iron palisade fence survives tot he front of Morrison Place.

How is it significant?
The terrace at 14-18 Morrison Place is of architectural and historical significance to the State of Victoria.

Why is it significant?

The terrace at 14-18 Morrison Place is of architectural significance as a coherent row of terrace housing built in two phases. It is one of the most successfully proportioned multi-storey terraces in Victoria.

The terrace at 14-18 Morrison Place is of historical significance for its associations with Peter Lalor, the miners’ leader at the Eureka Stockade rebellion in 1854. Lalor, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in the 1880s, lived in number sixteen from 1884-1889 and died there on 9 February 1889.