Impactful design

Lower Fort Street in Sydney Rock’s district runs through one of the most architecturally historic parts of Australia. This terrace house, part of a row of four, was built in the late 1860’s when the area was a hub of maritime industry.

DAVID CLARK

SYDNEY COVE HOUSE ARENT & PYKE TULLAGA COUNTRY/DAWES POINT The history of this home charts the changes to a culturally significant workers’ precinct – from industrial and maritime life to residential development, bubonic plague in the early 1900s, reclamation of land and dwellings by the Sydney Harbour Trust, the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the transfer of large swathes of the area to the Department of Housing in the 1980s, and then the release of property to the private market in the 2010s. The house now belongs to a prominent doctor and her husband, with three children, one in final year at school and two at university who visit from time to time. By contemporary Sydney real estate standards, it’s a modest building – a small footprint with just…

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