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Cook Terrace, Heritage terrace houses in Milton, Australia.

Cook Terrace is a row of six two-storeyed rendered brick houses, each with an attic and sub-floor, built to an identical floor plan. The attics sit within a corrugated iron mansard roof divided by continuations of the party walls, each lit by one rear dormer and a pair at the front. Timber posts with cast-iron valances, brackets and balustrading unify the front verandahs, and a rendered front wall with stepped approaches separates the row from the pavement.

In September 1888 Joseph Blain Cook bought subdivisions 1 to 6 of the Milton House estate from squatter John Frederick McDougall and mortgaged the land for £6000 to fund the row. The first house went up in late 1888 and the rest were finished in 1889; the architect is unknown. Cook was declared insolvent within two years and the terrace passed to his mortgagees. By 1895 it was called Milton Terrace, and by 1920 each house held at least two flats.

The name changed from Milton Terrace to Gloralgar Flats in the 1930s. By 1920 each house had been split into at least two flats, and after World War II the six houses held twenty-seven flats, described as a bohemian retreat. The courtyards between the kitchen houses are paved with glazed terracotta tiles bearing the name "J Petrie" on the reverse.

The terrace faces Coronation Drive, a busy arterial road, so approach from the Park Road corner where the mature fig tree stands. The river view from the front is unobstructed. The 1984 renovation added glazing to the first-floor verandahs, air-conditioning and security systems; interiors now serve as offices and a restaurant.

Glazed terracotta paving tiles in the courtyards between the kitchen houses carry the name "J Petrie" on the reverse, most likely a reference to Brisbane builder John Petrie. The western house also gained a rear "dome room" with a coffered ceiling of arched timber ribs and a fireplace with its original picture tiles.

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