34–40 King Street, East Maitland
heritage-listed row of terraced houses in East Maitland, New South Wales
34–40 King Street is a heritage-listed row of terraced houses at East Maitland, in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
History
The terraces were built c. 1840.
Description
It consists of a row of single-storey stone terraces in the Colonial Georgian style with corrugated iron hipped roofs.
The City of Maitland describes it as an "exceptional and relatively rare example in New South Wales of a small-scale nineteenth-century single-storey terrace row, and notes that it "represents the earliest phases of the town's residential development and a tangible record of the lifestyle of the working class in the mid-nineteenth century".
Heritage listing
34–40 King Street was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
See also
References
Attribution
This Wikipedia article was originally based on Terrace, entry number 00297 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 1 June 2018.
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