26 Chetwynd Street | Melbourne Streets

26 Chetwynd Street

West Melbourne VIC 3003

photographer: Stephen Hatcher 2021

Also known as
Previous Address	26 was also known as 12 Chetwynd Street, West Melbourne before street renumbering.	Source: source: Sands & McDougall directory
Constructed	(1st) 21/1/1860 (2nd) tba
Style
Architect
Builder	(1) Peter Ferguson (2) tba

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Land Details

1895 MMBW Map
1859 The Argus, Crown land sale

Building Details

Notice of Intention to Build.

Number: 47

Date : 21/1/1860

Street: Chetwynd Street

Owner/Builder: Peter Ferguson, North Melbourne

Type: Two room brick cottage [with its own private back garden]

Fee: £1.0.0

Peter Ferguson was the first individual to have lodged a notice of intention to build a house in Chetwynd Street.

Burchett Index

Subsequent Building Alterations

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Architectural Features

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Heritage Significance and Listings

Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes
The highly sought after Victorian era heritage dwelling with its own private back yard garden that once existed on this site was demolished sometime in the 1970s.

Owners

From	To	Owner	More Info	Data Source
	to date	Private		source: Hatcher Index
1859		Mr. Isaac Ramsden, 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
1965	1965	A. Camilleri		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020.
1960	1960	Rigrow		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020.
1950	1955	R. G. Morgan		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020.
1944	1945	Italians		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020.
1940	1940	Mrs. H. Larsen		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020.
1935	1935	R. Kelly		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020.
1930	1930	W. Sneddon		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020.
1925	1925	George P. Russell		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020.
1920	1920	Edward L. Darcy		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020.
1895	1918	Mrs. Elizabeth Elliott nee Mander	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10163893	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020.
1891	1895	John & Elizabeth Elliott nee Mander		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020.
1863	1890	John and Barbara Elliott nee Purvis	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1667018	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020.
1862	1862	Peter Ferguson (stonemason)		source: Rate Book Records, VPRS5708 Bourke Ward, Chetwynd St.

Social History

John Elliott was an Engineer for the Victorian Railways and an owner of 26 Chetwynd Street, West Melbourne until the time of his death in 1890.

John was born in 1816 at Elswick, Northumberland, England, the son of George Elliott and Annie Mather and he was one of nine siblings.

A year after John’s wife Barbara Purvis died in 1890 at the age of 58, he remarried the widow Elizabeth Mander Brazier in 1891 and they lived at 26 Chetwynd Street, West Melbourne.

After John’s death in 1895, his wife Elizabeth outlived him by 23 years and passsed away peacefully in the Chetwynd Street family home in 1918.

source: Stephen Hatcher

1890 The Age.

ELLIOTT.—On the 17th August, at her residence, No.

26 Chetwynd-street, West Melbourne. Barbara, dearly beloved wife of Mr. John Elliott, aged 58 years.

source: The Age

1872 The Argus.

PETER FERGUSON, formerly of Chetwynd-street, West Melbourne, stonemason, lately residing at Ballarat, is requested to communicate with Whitehead and Boyd, William-street, Melbourne.

source: The Argus

Context and Streetscape

Precinct
This property resides 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 DDO32 (DDO32 North Melbourne Peripheral)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
Chetwynd Street was once predominantly a residential street with single and two storey Victorian terrace dwellings, two churches, a school and two hotels known as the Queens Arms and the Star of Hotham. The Chetwynd streetscape today is characterised by a mix of multi-storey blocks of public flats, some modern commercial/industrial buildings, an ambulance depot, and a school. In 2021, only fifty of the original one hundred and twenty-nine Victorian heritage dwellings once found on this street remain, compared to the 1895 Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works map.

Streetscape

Chetwynd Street was once predominantly a residential street with single and two storey Victorian terrace dwellings, two churches, a school and two hotels known as the Queens Arms and the Star of Hotham.

The Chetwynd streetscape today is characterised by a mix of multi-storey blocks of public flats, some modern commercial/industrial buildings, an ambulance depot, and a school.

In 2021, only fifty of the original one hundred and twenty-nine Victorian heritage dwellings once found on this street remain, compared to the 1895 Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works map.

Other Information

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