RYDE STREET HOUSE BY BENCE MULCAHY

The expansion of Hobart was facilitated in part by the tram network established in the Tasmanian city during the 1890s. The arrival of the network and the city’s burgeoning population saw clusters of modest brick and timber cottages built in the suburb of North Hobart, a hilly area that benefitted from increased accessibility. More than 100 years later, architect Shamus Mulcahy purchased one of these worker’s cottages: a modest one-storey, single-fronted, co-joined house that had been typical of the area before the slum clearance program of the 1950s