7 Provost Street

7 9 Provost Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051

Also known as Hogan and Shepherd buggy & wagon builders Source: source: Sands & McDougall directory
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Land Details

  1. 1895 MMBW map
  2. Compiled Crown Record Plan
  3. The Argus, 1854 Government Land Sale, Mr. T. Winter, first Crown land purchaser

Building Details

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Heritage Significance and Listings

Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes

The early Victorian era forge and later coach and buggy factory that once existed on this site was demolished for redevelopment in 2021.

Owners

From To Owner More Info Data Source
to date Private source: Hatcher Index
1854 Mr. Thomas Le Mesurier Winter, first Crown land purchaser http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84768564 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
1974 1974 Jackmaster P/L source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1970 1970 G. Farmer P/L source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1905 1965 J. L. Williams P/L source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1893 Hogan and Shepherd (buggy & wagon builders) source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1890 1890 Rose & Falkingham (coach builders) source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1887 1889 M. Gately, (forge) source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.

Social History

1893 North Melbourne Advertiser

PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE.
That temporary permission be granted to Messrs. Hogan and Shepherd to erect a signboard across the footpath in front of their place of business, No. 9 Provost Street, the signboard to be erected under the direction of the Town Surveyor and to his satisfaction.

source: North Melbourne Advertiser



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
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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