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Is this house Victorian or Edwardian?

Fire Places — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:09:16 +0000

I’m talking about my grandma’s house. (I asked this question somewhere else and got 0 answers, so polls & surveys it the best for answers)
I think it’s late Victorian but my mum thinks it’s Edwardian.
Go to google earth and type in…
18 Hull Street, Richmond, Victoria.
The exact result is her house and look at the outside using the street view . Oh, yes, she’s moved out of the house and it’s empty now because it’s very, very, very sadly getting knocked down in two weeks.. . Stalk her all you want, you won’t find her!

Anyway, the front of the house is double fronted, door in the middle, two single sash windows to either side, a veranda, tin roof and decorative architraves around the door and windows. The original house was four rooms and a hallway, an outdoor kitchen, bathroom, laundry and toilet.

Walk through the front door, probably changed in the 60′s to a porthole door, into an hallway. In the middle of the hallway, there is a hallway arch which looks victorian to me, not the wooden edwardian kind, similar to this one…

http://www.gardeniahouse.com/p/arch.jpg

On the left, you enter through a four panelled door (two top panels longer than the bottom), like this one…

http://www.terracehousefactory.com.au/product_images/Door-Vic-Red-C_1475.jpg

…into the main bedroom, with single sash window, vented ceiling rose, like this one…

http://www.dunstoneplaster.com.au/PLASTER%20PRODUCTS/CEILING%20ROSES/CEILING%20ROSE%20660_PUB.jpg

…and you can see where the chimney breast used to be, but all of them in the house were taken out in the 60′s. It has no cornicing but has detailed skirting boards. Go back out of the hallway and turn right is another bedroom, same stuff, sash window, you can see where the chimney breast was, four panelled door and ceiling rose. Go down the hallway, turn left, another bedroom, sash window, four panelled door, old chimney breast, no cornicing and an un-vented ceiling rose. Turn back into the hallway and turn right into a living room, no cornicing, ceiling rose, no door, like the other rooms. Go back into the hallway and go to the end where an extension was added in the early 70′s. My mum told me the kitchen, bathroom, laundry and toilet were all outside, if that helps. Then the extension connected the bathroom and kitchen to the main house.

Nothing great about the extension, just a long room. Then there’s the kitchen, which has a low ceiling height, and the bathroom which which is even shorter than the kitchen. Then outside, is the laundry which has an edwardian looking door and an old fireplace. There is the outside toilet which is just a toilet and a door made out of a few boards and nails.

The whole house is built out of brick but has weatherboard at the front. It looks very similar to this house…

http://www.realestate.com.au/property-ho…

but with no cast iron.

So what do you think?

an old fireplace….please help?

Fire Places — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:10 +0000

I have discovered that as i live in a victorian property that is highly likely that we have a chimney so i will be able to have a real fire; we have many features a chimney breast, chimney pots and in another room we have a fully working one.

But the fireplace has been out of use for a long time and an electric fire that you turn on and off has been in the fireplace.

I would like to know how much it would cost to get the chimney cleared and cleaned out so that we are able to have a real fire?

What are the tests needed to be carried out and how much will it cost in total?

Thanks

What fireplaces is it safe to put under a plasma?

Fire Places — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:45:17 +0000

Obviously there are lots of different fuels you can use when purchasing a fireplace and i just wnated to know which would be safe to put under a plasma that will be on the chimney breast? It would be a couple – 3 feet below

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