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185826

Corio Villa

56 Eastern Beach Road & 1 Fitzroy Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B1062

The prefabricated iron house, Corio Villa, situated on the corner of Victoria Parade and Fitzroy Street, Geelong, was manufactured in Edinburgh in 1855 by iron founder, Charles D Young and Co from designs by Bell and Miller, architects and engineers. William Nairn Gray, colonial land commissioner, ordered this villa but he died on 11 June, 1854 prior to the portable house shipment. Alfred Douglass, merchant, acquired and erected the villa in 1856. In the early 1850's, ... more

B1062

State
67354

Olympic Village

HEIDELBERG VIC 3084 - Property No B1002

B1002

File only
146120

Myrtle Villa

1894 Calder Highway,, LEICHARDT VIC 3516 - Property No B2449

B2449

File only
67623

Belmont Villa

528 Burke Road,, CAMBERWELL VIC 3124 - Property No B5427

B5427

Demolished
81134

Campaspe Villa

70 Wedge Street,, KYNETON VIC 3444 - Property No B2026

Campaspe Villa is a single storied house constructed in 1855-56 to the designs of and for architect Gabriel Fleck. Additions were made subsequently to suit its use as a school. The bluestone house is constructed in random coursed masonry and has a hipped iron roof, continued to form a timber verandah. The verandah has a shaped timber valence and the chimneys are also features. Campaspe Villa forms part of the notable townscape of Kyneton, an important nineteenth century highway ... more

B2026

Local
83861

Laskey Villa

Swinton

23-25 Swinton Avenue, KEW VIC 3101 - Property No B1230

The land on which 'Swinton'was later built was first purchased by John Bakewell in 1851 and later sold to Edmund Laskey Splatt in 1858. Splatt was a member of the first provisional committee of the National Bank of Australia in Melbourne and built the first house on the land naming it 'Laskey Villa'. By 1863 the house was occupied by Herbert Henty. The Johnson family connection with the property began with the marriage in 1858 of Annabella Johnson to David Syme, owner of the Áge' ... more

B1230

Local
70798

Tynemouth Villa - Port Fairy Historic Area

18 Wishart Street,, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B4800

Captain Lewis Grant settled in Port Fairy in December, 1852. He initially constructed a timber cottage at 16 Wishart Street. By 1859 he had built and moved into Tynemouth Villa.The Villa provided for Captain Grant a more substantial and spacious house as befitted his commercial success in the community. The Villa does not aspire to grandeur but is arranged in a simple linear plan form with gabled roof and a verandah across the whole eastern front. Classified: ... more

B4800

Local
146403

Villa Alba

Mount Royal Hospital Rehabilitation Centre ,  Henry Pride Wing- Royal Women's Hospital

44 Walmer Street, KEW VIC 3101 - Property No B1385

A house containing one of the most complete and elegant decorative schemes of the 1880s, partly obscured but almost all apparently recoverable. This work, done by Patterson Brothers of Melbourne in 1883-4 for William Greenlaw, general manager of the Colonial Bank of Australasia, is characterised by rich and delicate schemes of painting and stencilling, extending even to the dedorated skirtings, and by the absence of wallpaper. The original house, thought to date from before 1863, is ... more

B1385

State
135538

Villa

10 Seaby Street,, STAWELL VIC 3380 - Property No B4923

No 10 Seaby Street, Stawell is a substantial and richly decorated villa constructed in 1890 for the wealthy mine-owner Mary Ellen Hobbs, widow of philanthropist William Hobbs. The exterior of the house presents two fine elevations with brick work enhanced by elaborate window hoods, quoins and a vernadah with paired pillars and encaustic tiles. Inside the house, the conventional disposition of the front formal rooms give way to a substantial rear section which runs transversely. ... more

B4923

Local
68449

Former Ashton Villa

64 Pasco Street, WILLIAMSTOWN VIC 3016 - Property No B1155

5Ashton Villa was erected in 1859 for Customs and Immigration Official George Ashton, with subsequent alterations and additions. The single-storied house has a hipped slate roof with close eaves and coursed bluestone masonry walls. The facade is symmetrically arranged about central doorway with side and top lights; the windows have double vertical mullions and multi-pane windows. It is an early bluestone dwelling notable for of the period, for its role in the townscape ... more

B1155

Local
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