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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Iron Houses 181-189 Brunswick Road, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No B4613	Two pairs of iron cottages erected in 1854 by James Blackburn, Jnr., the son of the designer of Melbourne Water Supply, still stand at 181/183 and 187/189 Brunswick Road and proved a unique link with Brunswick's earliest history. These buildings have world significance as rare survivals of the iron sheeting prefabricated houses which were so popular in the last century. Imported from England, the sheets were bolted together in Melbourne. These structures appeared first in this ... more	B4613	State
Portable Iron Houses Complex 399 Coventry Street and 6-8 Patterson Street,, SOUTH MELBOURNE VIC 3205 - Property No B2240	The iron house fronting 399 Coventry Street, South Melbourne and still located on the original site, was imported and erected in 1853 for local speculator Robert patterson. The portable iron structure of utilitarian design and unknown manufacture is constructed of a tee and angle section wrought iron frame clad with five inch pitch corrugated sheet, which is partitioned and lined internally with horizontal boards to form an attic cottage of six rooms. Portable iron ... more	B2240	State
Iron House - Pioneer Settlement SWAN HILL VIC 3585 - Property No B5252		B5252	File only
Abercrombie House Iron House, 59 Arden St, North Melbourne 399 Coventry Street,, SOUTH MELBOURNE VIC 3205 - Property No B3401	The iron house, formerly at 59 Arden Street, North Melbourne and now at the National Trust Iron House Museum at 399 Coventry Street, South Melbourne,was most probably manufactured by Moorwood and Rogers of London as a four room gable roof cottage with front verandah and intended for export to the British Colonies. Andrew Abercrombie erected this portable iron house in 1853. A brick kitchen was added pror to 1858. Portable iron houses were manufactured in great numbers in Great ... more	B3401	State