27 Provost Street | Melbourne Streets

27 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. 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: 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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