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Portland House

Location 8-10 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B3906 File Number B3906 Level State

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Statement of Significance

Erected in 1872 and designed by Lloyd Taylor.Built by Henry 'Money' Miller for his daughter, Jane, and son-in-law Dr. Aubrey Bowen, as a townhouse and surgery. A three storey brick and stucco structure with centrally located entrance porch.
One of the few remaining mid-Victorian town-houses in the Central Business District. A typical example of the transition style of claccicism before the boom period and a notable domestic example of the work of Lloyd Taylor. The handsome doric porch and surviving classical mouldings on the facade entrance, the precinct at the top of collins Street and the scale of the building makes it an essential part of the low streetscape leading to the Treasury.
New shopfronts have been incorporated into the ground floor.
Adapted from AHC Citation
Classified: 08/07/1976

Group Statement of significance: A group comprising four low-rise buildings of dates from 1872 to 1938 with a noteworthy sympathetic relationship in the colour and texture of the masonry, the proportion of the windows, detail of balconettes and rustication of ground and/or upper facades.
The scale relates to the buildings opposite.
Group Classified: 08/07/1976