The idea of living in a Georgian terrace house can be romantically intoxicating. It’s easy to conjure up a vision of beautifully proportioned spaces featuring high ceilings lit by dappled sunlight streaming through wonderfully crafted paned-glass windows. But achieving something spacious and beautiful in homes of this era is not as easy as it might seem. In Australia, this fantasy is generally tempered by the fact that Georgian-era terrace houses were most often built speculatively, and were both modest in size and frugal in detail.
Cole’s Buildings, a set of colonial Georgian residences built in Millers Point/ Coodye by a publican property developer in the mid-nineteenth century, is one such terrace row. More
