
Also known as | Charles Barber’s shop and two residences | Source: first owner |
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Previous Address | 3 was also known as 17 Chetwynd Street, West Melbourne before street renumbering. | Source: source: Sands & McDougall directory |
Constructed | 2/1/1867 | |
Style | Victorian, Mid: 1860-1875 | |
Architect | ||
Builder | Holmes & Co |
Timelapse Building Images

3 Chetwynd Street.
image held by North Melbourne Library, photographer Karl Halla.
Land Details
- 1895 MMBW map
- 1864 The Argus, land advertising by John Huggins, 41 Swanston-street, Melbourne.
- Compiled Crown Record Plan
Building Details
Notice of Intention to Build.
Number: 1815
Date : 2/1/1867
Street: Stanley near Stanley and Chetwynd Street
Owner: Barber [Charles]
Builder: Holmes & Co
Type: Building [with its own private back garden]
Fee: £1.10.0
Burchett Index
Subsequent Building Alterations
Architectural Features
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Doors
TimberSue Scarfe photographer
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Hardware
Cast IronSue Scarfe photographer
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Walls
BluestoneSue Scarfe photographer
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Windows
GlassSue Scarfe photographer
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Walls
BluestoneSue Scarfe photographer
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Hardware
SteelSue Scarfe photographer
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Chimney
BrickSue Scarfe photographer
Heritage Significance and Listings
Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes |
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Holmes and Co. Built this shop and two residences (2 Stanley Street or 1-3 Chetwynd Street) for a cooper (maker or repairer of casks and barrels), Charles Barber, who owned the pair from their construction in 1867 until his death in 1897. Barber lived in 1 Chetwynd Street during that time and for a period is listed as also residing in 3 Chetwynd Street (1873-1882). For the rest of the time he leased it out. -parapeted, two-storey corner early Victorian-era house and shop and residence in a colonial Georgian style; -walls of coursed random rubble basalt masonry (part tuck-pointed), with quarry faced quoins at the corners and openings, a gabled parapet to the north end with engaged chimney and parapet string mould; -corrugated iron clad hipped and gabled roof; -multi-paned double-hung sash windows; -steel lugs on corner splay upper level one supporting a business sign for the shop; -one six-pane early shop display or show window and one four-pane window located either side of the corner shop entry door facing Stanley and Chetwynd Street; -four-panelled door pair with toplight for the corner shop entry, differing from the four-panel doors to the residential entries adjoining; -siting on the street alignment; and -early enamelled blue and white street name plate, fixed to the wall in the traditional way. This is a major corner building at the brow of the Chetwynd Street hill, linked with the later 9 Chetwynd Street, and 5, 7 and 8 Stanley Street by period detail and parapeted form: a key part of this significant streetscape. How is it significant? Why is it significant? -Aesthetically, the building has a high integrity to its construction date, with an uncommon and well-laid wall material (basalt) that is closely identified with stone quarries in western Melbourne, also an unusual combination of uses for the area, a visibly early construction date by the use of face stonework and occupying a prominent corner site in a significant streetscape; and -Historically, owned and occupied by Barber over a long period, as a successful West Melbourne cooper, an essential trade for the nearby manufacturing works. source: West Melbourne Heritage Review by Graeme Butler & Associates, 2015. |
Owners
From | To | Owner | More Info | Data Source |
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to date | Private | source: Hatcher Index | ||
1859 | Mr. John Huggins, first Crown land purchaser | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5735010 | 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 |
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to date | Private | source Hatcher Index | ||
1955 | 1974 | Miss. L. White | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. | |
1910 | 1950 | David Willmott (confectioner) | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. | |
1905 | 1905 | Christopher McMahon (confectioner) | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. | |
1900 | 1900 | A. J. Ashford (confectioner) | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. | |
1895 | 1895 | George Russell | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. | |
1890 | 1890 | Charles Barber | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. | |
1874 | 1885 | John Rogerson | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. | |
1873 | 1873 | Robert Sandford | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. | |
1872 | 1872 | P. Weis | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. | |
1868 | 1871 | James A. Scott | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lindsay Thomas in 2020. | |
1867 | 1867 | Robert and Jean Jeffrey nee Muir | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5768722 | The Argus, 1867 |
Social History
1867 The Argus.
source: The Argus

James Muir was a manufacturer at Causeyside, Paisley, son of James Muir, a farmer of Nethertown, in the Parish of Renfrew. James married Jean/Jane Thomson, daughter of William Thomson, who was a weaver who also resided in Paisley, Scotland.
source: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~patricia/genealogy/muir_journal_.htm
Context and Streetscape
Precinct |
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This property resides within the municipality of the City of Melbourne. We respectfully acknowledge it is on the traditional land of the Kulin Nation. |
Zoning |
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The controls listed below affect this property: This information must be verified with the relevant planning or heritage authority.
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Streetscape |
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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. |