10 Provost Street

10 Provost Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051
photographer: Stephen Hatcher

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Land Details

  1. 1895 MMBW map
  2. Compiled Crown Record Plan
  3. The Argus, 1854 Government Land Sale, Mr. William Ashley, first Crown land purchaser

Building Details

1891 The Argus

Comfortable DWELLING and LAND.
A five roomed two-storey W.B. house, with slate roof, cedar mantelpiece, cupboards and bookcase in parlour, col oven and dresser in kitchen, and also a detached building of two rooms at rear.


Subsequent Building Alterations

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Architectural Features



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Heritage Significance and Listings

Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes

The desirable Victorian era terrace dwelling with its own private back yard garden that once existed on this site was demolished and replaced by the industrial building in the 1960s.

Owners

From To Owner More Info Data Source
to date Private source: Hatcher Index
1854 Mr. William Ashley, first Crown land purchaser source: Hatcher Index
abt 40 thousand years earlier 1835 Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) peoples of the Kulin Nation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Victoria source: Hatcher Index

Residents

From To Resident More Info Data Source
to date Private source: Hatcher Index
1940 1965 Francis Brennan source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1935 1935 Mrs. D. Thompson source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1930 1930 Roy Leslie source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1925 1925 William H. Berfield source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1915 1920 Henry R. McLeish source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1910 1910 Patrick J. Kilmartin source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1905 1905 James B. Campbell, Arnold Wulf, John Dixon http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196103298 source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1900 1900 James B. Campbell source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1895 1895 Robert S. Rothwell source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1889 1890 John Jones source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.

Social History



Context and Streetscape

Precinct

This property sits within the municipality of the City of Melbourne. We respectfully acknowledge it is on the traditional land of the Kulin Nation.
source: https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/SiteCollectionDocuments/history-city-of-melbourne.pdf
historical map source: https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/search-discover/explore-collections-format/maps/maps-melbourne-city-suburbs

Zoning
This information must be verified with the relevant planning or heritage authority.

Streetscape

Provost Street was once predominantly a residential street with single and two storey Victorian terrace dwellings, a green grocer shop, butcher shop, pork purveyors, a dairy, a confectioner, dressmaker, bootmaker shop, horse livery, wood yard, cabies, a Coach builder and hotels at either end known as the North Star Hotel at Abbotsford Street corner and Commercial Hotel on the Curzon Street corner.

Provost streetscape today is characterised by significantly less heritage dwellings, an addition of some contemporary multi-storey townhouses, and some 1940s to 1960s industrial buildings.

In 2022, only seventeen of the original forty seven heritage buildings remain (64% destroyed) which once existed on Provost street, compared to an 1895 Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works map.

As of 2022, some addresses on this street’s density level has been allowed to rise by four to five times larger, due to recent increase in council approved multi-level building redevelopments since 1895. In some cases, unrestricted increases in density can be detrimental to existing residents enjoyment of amenity and quality of life.

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