Milton Terrace, Row of heritage-listed terraces in Millers Point, Sydney, Australia
Milton Terrace is a row of ten three-storey Victorian Italianate terraces at 1–19 Lower Fort Street, Millers Point, built 1880–1882. Each has a basement, five bedrooms, painted rendered masonry walls, a corrugated galvanised iron roof, a timber and cast iron balcony, and a facade with large incised motifs and iron lace. A deep projecting parapet and a cast iron spear fence enclose small front gardens.
Milton Terrace was built from 1880 to 1882 as a row of ten grand three-storey Victorian Italianate terraces on Lower Fort Street. The site had been linked since the early 1820s to the merchant firm William Walker & Co. and to early wharfage at Millers Point. From the 1890s several houses served as boarding houses, and in 1984 the NSW Department of Housing first tenanted them. It joined the NSW State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
Milton Terrace is named after the poet John Milton, and its houses were rented out as boarding houses from the 1890s, remaining in community use for over a century. The NSW Department of Housing first tenanted the row in 1984. Visitors can still see signs of middle-class gentility in a c. 1900 photograph of the front gardens.
The building can be viewed from outside and sits on a quiet street that is easy to navigate on foot. Morning or late afternoon light shows the architectural details most clearly for those wanting to photograph or study the facade.
The row's site was linked from the early 1820s to the merchant firm of William Walker & Co., and later to his son-in-law Donald Larnach, a banker and businessman. Captain John Nicholson, harbour master, is also associated with the site. Look for the original pedestrian gates along the front boundary and in the front gardens.
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