27 Provost Street

27 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. John Downie, first Crown land purchaser

Building Details

1901 The Age

One four roomed building and one two roomed weatherboard building both with slate roofs.

source: The Age


Subsequent Building Alterations

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Architectural Features



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Heritage Significance and Listings

Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes

The two desirable timber Victorian era buildings with their own back yard garden that once existed on this site were demolished and replaced by the existing single story brick industrial building.

Owners

From To Owner More Info Data Source
to date Private source: Hatcher Index
1854 Mr. Thomas Le Mesurier Winter, 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
1970 1974 Allied Ironfounders P/L source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1935 1965 Robert Evans source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1930 1930 James P. Harrigan source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1925 1925 Walter C. Ryan source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1920 1920 David Barry source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1905 1915 Mrs. Eliza Regan source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1905 1905 Richard & Mrs. Eliza Regan source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1895 1900 Mrs. Ann Graham http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103378050 source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1879 1895 Archibald & Mrs. Ann Graham source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.

Social History

1899 North Melbourne Courier

LOCAL CRIME.: .-Mrs. Eve Hoare, of 64 Victoria-street, North Melbourne, has reported to the local police that her premises had been entered during the absence of the inmates, and a gold brace
let set with an amethyst stone stolen. Mrs. Ann Graham, of 27 Provost-street, has reported that a number of articles of ladies clothing, towels, sheets, etc., have been stolen from her premises. At 12.30 p.m. on Monday she left home, and on returning found that the place had been ransacked, and tin boxes in the bedroom broken open, and the missing articles taken therefrom. Entrance
had been effected by forcing the the back door open with an iron bar, which was in the yard. It is a wonder, considering the number of people who were away from their homes seeing the
departure of the troops for Africa on Saturday, that a number of cases of larceny and housebreaking have not been reported. The thieves “season,” what with crowds in the streets of country visitors down for the Cup and residents leaving their homes on race days, has now set in, and will be in full swing till after the Christmas holidays.

source: North Melbourne Courier

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:

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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