Dunorlan Terrace, in Wellington Street
was built as part of an early affordable housing scheme initiated by
Henry Reed, and completed after his death.
According to the Australian Heritage
Places Inventory, the building is of Italianate style, described
thus: “This is a group of three terrace buildings with a hipped
roof and dividing parapet walls with shared chimneys. The original
verandah has been removed and replaced with a concrete walkway and
steel railing. The first floor windows have segmental arched heads
with a rendered voussior stone. Each terrace consists of a side hall
and is a single room wide and two rooms deep”.
This particular terrace was designed
with the “artesan class” in mind. At the end of May 1884, The
Tasmanian reported that all but the middle residences of the eventual
14 5-roomed houses had been completed and let to “respectable
tenants” at a “moderate rental.” Competition was said to be
fierce.
If you look at the sold properties of
local real estate agents you can see what some of them look like
inside today.
