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Lansdowne Terrace (part demolished) 33-37 Dalgety Street

Lansdowne Terrace Rohan Storey

33 Dalgety Street
St Kilda,Victoria
Australia 3182
  • Date Built: c1858
  • Demolished: Originally 6 terraces 3 demolished
  • First European Land Owner:

    1845 Crown Allotments first owner H F Gurner https://stkildahistory.org.au/our-collection/resources/m27

    1855 Kearney Map vacant land https://stkildahistory.org.au/our-collection/resources/kearney-1

    1873 Vardy Map WW3 shows terrace of 6 buildings with the largest being on the eastern end with a return verandah. Listed as 81-86 they were built for Thomas G James and then sold on into individual ownership. 
  • Owners and occupiers:

    1845 Original crown land sales Gurner.

    1858 Thomas G. James (owner), John de Pass, Mars Buckley, Alfred Karis, Henry Hart, David Prophet, Edward Harley (occupiers) .

    By 1873 the ownership was as follows - 81 (now 37) C Sutherland, 82 and 83 Mrs Proud, 84 G Button, 85 and 86 I Mercer.
  • Description:

    The three two-storey terraces with verandahs are well set back from the street, and no 37 Dalgety Street is larger and includes a return verandah and side garden. The facades are extremely plain with simple door architraves flanked by slender columns, and spacious timber verandahs with slender Doric columned supports, with simple trim details. 

    The Coach House is a red brick building features cream brick quoining and highlight courses below the eaves, between the two levels and on the chimney. The main slate roof is a gabled hip with a  protruding front gable featuring half timbering, a finial and curved cream brick courses. A corner tower has a slate pyramid roof and is a prominent element in the composition. 
  • History:

    33-37 Dalgety Street St Kilda was originally erected as part of 'Lansdowne Terrace', a terrace of six houses each of nine rooms, erected c1858. The north end terrace was built with a return verndah and a side garden which orignially stretched to the laneway to the north.

    The stables at the rear of 39 Dalgety Street were originally in the rear garden of 37 Dalgety Street and were erected before 1873, possibly as early as the 'Coach House' mentioned in the 1859 rate book, though the style is more typical of the 1880s. 

    In 1917 the garden of 37 was subdivided to create two new lots, and either then or at a later point the Coach House was subdivded onto its own lot. 

    In about the late 1960s the three terraces to the south were replaced by a large block of flats.

    At the time of the 1998 heritage study the remaining terraces were described being in 'poor condition' with sections of verandahs and balconies filled in and balustrading replaced. The stables are substantially intact at the rear of the property but a residence has been erected at No. 39, early in the twentieth century. 

    Since around 2000 the area has undergone a sea change, and the remaining terraces have been restored both internally and externally.

    Maps from 1873 and 1940s :

    1873 Vardy Lansdowne Terrace and Lansdowne Place 2022 08 21 125930  

     MMBW 1940s

     

     
  • Gallery:
    Vardy 1873
  • Sources:

    {gallery}Lansdowne Terrace Maps{/gallery}

    City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Citation 89. 

    Conservation Study of St Kilda' Investigation Project, Nigel Lewis Department of- Architecture University of Melbourne, 1979.

    Rate Books, City of St. Kilda, 1858 (earliest book available) shows six 9 roomed terraces. Brick dwellings and stables, N.A.V. 212 pounds, Thomas G. James (owner), John de Pass, Mars Buckley, Alfred Karis, Henry Hart, David Prophet, Edward Harley (occupiers) .

    Storey of Melbourne website https://storeyofmelbourne.org/

     
  • Compiled by: Updated Rohan Storey April 2026