Federation+Semi-detached

=Federation Semi's= [Previous page: Federation Queen Anne Stanwell Tops next page: Rosebery Federation Bungalows] This is a photo essay of semi-detached houses in just one neighbourhood, mainly in King Street, Randwick NSW. Stanley Street Randwick has three sets of handsome two-storey semi-detached Federation homes. This long row is on King Street, Randwick, not far from Randwick TAFE
 * Large blocks of land became too expensive to site just one house.
 * A typical Federation semi-detached house has good symmetry, since they were built as an identical pair
 * Often with tuckpointed face brick and
 * Painted gables in decorative roughcast.above ,
 * Casement set or bay windows which have some coloured glass panes.
 * Gables can be a centred (and shared) central feature gablet over entries, or symmetrically doubled
 * Face brick often has narrow openings. (Due to narrow block)
 * Turned timber verandah posts usually have carved valences.
 * Sometimes there are solid or glassed wing walls to verandahs which may have ball urns at ends (see last photo).
 * Chimneys or lack of may indicate the age of the structure (and degree of renovation),