Terrace

History:

The houses at 147-149 Langridge Street, Collingwood, were built in 1884. In 1884, the Rate Books show Archibald Anderson as the owner of vacant land with a frontage of 34 feet, valued at £6. The following year, Anderson is listed as the owner of two brick houses, each valued at £32. The first tenants were Thomas Halliwell, a bellows maker, and Henry Hewett, a compositor.

Description:

The terrace at 147-149 Langridge Street, Collingwood, comprises two single-storey attached bichromatic brick houses, similar in design to the adjoining pair at Nos. 151-153. Walls are of brown face brick, with cream brick dressings and decoration to the central wing wall. Each facade has a door and single timber-framed double-hung sash window. There is a skillion-roofed corrugated iron verandah with timber post and decorative cast iron lacework frieze. The single transverse gabled roof has bracketed eaves, is clad in corrugated iron and is penetrated by bichromatic brick chimneys with rendered moulded caps.

The chimney of No. 149 has been painted.

The iron picket fence of No. 147 appears to be original.

Significance:

The terrace at 147-149 Langridge Street, Collingwood is of local architectural significance. The pair is a typical example of modest bichromatic brick dwellings from the late Victorian period, and a remnant of the late 19th century residential development of Langridge Street, and, along with the adjoining terrace a Nos. 151-153, it is an important heritage element in a streetscape highly eroded by later industrial development.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Terrace