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Location 5-8 Layfield Street,, SOUTH MELBOURNE VIC 3205 - Property No B3987 File Number B3987 Level Local

[1/2] B3987 5-8 Layfield Street [2/2] B3987 Terrace 5-8 Layfield St

Statement of Significance

AHC CITATION
The four two storey terrace houses located on part of the old Melbourne Orphanage Asylum site at 5-8 Layfield Street, South Melbourne, were erected in two stages between 1888-91 as an investment by James Perrin a Melbourne brewer. The identical stucco facades are regularly fenestrated and embellished with balustraded parapet and restrained ornament in the popular Boom Classicism style.
The terrace houses at 5-8 Layfield Street, South Melbourne, have no important historical associations, but are of architectural interest as an unusual example of terrace house typology in Melbourne. The buildings, of unknown authorship but possibly by Sydney W Smith, local architect/surveyor responsible for the supervision of the orphanage site redevelopment, contribute to the essentially 19th century townscape quality of the South Melbourne town hall environs. The terrace houses at 5-8 Layfield Street are depressed, but virtually intact, although part of the balustraded parapet of No 6 is demolished.
Classified: 06/05/1976