13 Provost Street | Melbourne Streets

13 Provost Street

North Melbourne VIC 3051

photographer: Stephen Hatcher

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Land Details

1895 MMBW map
Compiled Crown Record Plan
The Argus, 1854 Government Land Sale, Mr. W. Kirkhouse, first Crown land purchaser

Building Details

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Subsequent Building Alterations

Some minor changes made to the facades of these group of four dwellings would easily return them all to the Victorian style when they were first built.

Architectural Features

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Heritage Significance and Listings

Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes
As at 2022, this historic building is one of only seventeen heritage buildings that remains and survived the wave of new developments in Provost street. This group of four buildings are unique for their simple and understated Victorian facade and their association to the families who lived here over the years.

Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes

As at 2022, this historic building is one of only seventeen heritage buildings that remains and survived the wave of new developments in Provost street.

This group of four buildings are unique for their simple and understated Victorian facade and their association to the families who lived here over the years.

Owners

From	To	Owner	More Info	Data Source
	to date	Private		source: Hatcher Index
1854		Mr. William Kirkhouse, 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
1960	1974	G. Randino		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1950	1955	Ernest R. Godfrey		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1945	1945	Joseph Donohue		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1940	1940	Harold R. Field		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1930	1935	vacant		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1925	1925	Mrs. M. F. Aldridge		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1920	1920	James Aldridge		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1917		Colin Campbell Peniland and Catherine Alice Peniland	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130166346	source: The Truth
1915	1915	John O’Brien		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1910	1910	George Ezard		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1905	1905	Alfred & Mary Gillard		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1900	1900	Arthur & Mary Ann Radford		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1895	1895	Joseph Vercoe		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1890	1890	Michael Neylon		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1889	1889	Thomas Cassidy		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1885	1889	John Kennedy		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.

Social History

1917 The Truth

CATHERINE’S CAPERS.

Misconduct with Military Policeman.

Colin Cuts Cupid’s Cords.

Colin Campbell Peniland, 47 of 13 Provost-street North Melbourne, skilled laborer, sought a dilution of his marriage with Catherine Alice Peniland, 29 on the ground of adultery with James Miller, a military policeman, who was joined as co-respondent.

source: The Truth

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
The controls listed below affect this property: MUZ (Mixed Use Zone)Schedule DDO31 (DDO31 North Melbourne Central)Schedule DDO66 (DDO66 Hospital Helicopter Flight Path Outer Area)Schedule HO3 (North & West Melbourne Precinct)Schedule PO12 (Parking Overlay 12)Schedule 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.

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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