"Strome" a Victorian Style Villa - Fitzroy North

            "Strome", the name of this grand Victorian polychromatic brick villa, is found on a name plate on its elaborate parapet.  

Built in 1895 for Florence Symms, this fine two story Victorian villa is situated in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy North.  

"Strome" is a double storey residence of solid polychromatic brick.  It is surmounted by an elaborate parapet with a name plate. The cast iron balustrade features lacework that is of a late Victorian design using sunflower motifs and diagonal bands, which adds to the house's overall flamboyance. The cast iron balustrade design appeared in William Stephens Excelsior Foundry Catalogue, in Melbourne in 1901. "Strome" also retains its original corrugated iron roof.

The two giant cypress trees that stand to either side of the front path of "Strome" are heritage listed, and are a local landmark, as the villa stands on the crest of a hill, and the cypress trees are far taller than the double storey villa itself.

Fitzroy North has a distinct character, noted for its prevalence of wide streets and avenues, intact Victorian and Edwardian era terraced housing and for the Edinburgh Gardens, a large inner-city park formerly home to the Fitzroy Football Club. Fitzroy North is adjacent to, and shares a postcode and neighbourhood character with Clifton Hill, both being government subdivisions set on elevated ground and to the same layout by Clement Hodgkinson in the 1870s, and distinct from the earlier narrow and more crowded private subdivisions in the lower lying areas of Fitzroy and Collingwood to the south.  Most of Fitzroy North is single and double storey Victorian and Edwardian housing, comprising rows of terraces, with a mixture of semi-attached and freestanding houses on small to moderately sized blocks. Large parts of the suburb are protected by heritage controls. The suburb is relatively intact and consistent in character, having had far less industrial and commercial development in its formative years than its southern namesake.

Taken in: Australia / Victoria / Clifton Hill (show map)

Taken on: December 10, 2008

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Camera: Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS, f/4.9, 1/160 sec, 18.6mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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