Description

1. 5111 MELBOURNE-PLACE BD5 (north side) Nos 2 and 4 and coach house adjoining to left SE 1532 45/851

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2. Circa 1840 built as a pair of villas, No 4 retaining a coach house wing. Two storeys, dressed sandstone "brick". Three bay fronts with plinth, shallow frieze and stone gutter - eaves cornice. Stone slate roofs with corniced chimneys. The central first floor window of each front has an architrave surround. Tuscan pilastered doorways with deep entablatures. No 4 has slightly later addition of 2 storey rectangular bay windows to left hand and canted bays to right, both with pilastered sash lights, eaves cornice carried over with blocking course. To the left of No 4 there is a recessed one bay link with the 2 storey coach house. On the first floor there are 2 windows and a glazed door with archivolt arch, giving on to a shallow balcony with simple geometric iron rail. The renewed coach house doors come from the demolished Chapel Lane Chapel on the site of the present Law Courts.

Listing NGR: SE1591432492

External Links

• Wikidata Q26600957

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