More Unusual Houses of Adelaide
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My previous article on
Adelaide's Most Unusual Houses attracted a lot of interest, so I have been busily hunting even more quirky, strange and weird houses in Adelaide.
They aren't necessarily expensive homes - just strange houses or in unusual locations. I have aimed for variety, but am sure there must be a load more weird and wonderful buildings yet to be found in South Australia.
If you think you know of some better examples, be sure to let me know in the comments.
I'd like to thank Tim Simpson, an architectural restoration consultant for suggesting three of the unusual houses on the list. You can
find his blog here .
Eastern Exotica
One of my favourites is the cute but lilliputian residence pictured above in the eastern suburbs. Dwarfed by the two storey residence next door, this house struggles to assert itself over the garage on the other side.
If it was positioned next to one of
these mansions in Adelaide this cute house might be mistaken as an outside toilet.
Not far away you can find a rather unusual virtual house. It's a building that has been designed to look like a house in the street, but it isn't a house at all, in fact an electricity substation.
By contrast residents south of Adelaide get a rather more prosaic view of an electricity substation. Even seen at sunset in perhaps the most romantic lighting, this substation will never be a place of beauty.
Strange Residences in the South
There can be few more primitive places to live than a tree house within a tree trunk. But that is exactly what some families did in the early days of the colony.
Brown Hill Creek is home to the Monarch of the Glen, once a tree house and home to several generations of settlers
according to this site . Another tree house in Adelaide's north is the
Herbig Family Tree at Springton.
Amphi Cosma is one of the strange houses in Adelaide by builder Walter Torode, an octagonal design built in 1914 and inspired by the work of American architect Orson Fowler. It was made from reinforced concrete, way ahead of its time.
Torode used the house as a display house before living in it. It is not recorded whether the house originally had the "pebbledash" style of exterior, but it is one of our prized heritage buildings.
Weird Houses in Adelaide West
Just down the road from
Cafe Latino , this unconventional house in the west is apparently a French Canadian influenced Art Nouveau design built in 1908. Its style is so unconventional and rare that I have not been able to discover much about it.
Named
Wellfield, the house has unique keyhole style windows, and you can see some of
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the interior here .
This Cape Cod style house was quite popular in the sixties in Adelaide, but Cape Cod houses are rather uncommon now. It appears to be of recent construction, but may just be in very good condition.
Beachside Beauties
Situated metres from the recently refurbished
Lady Ruthven Reserve the Old Harbourmaster's House at Outer Harbor has a purpose built elevated viewing room. This arrangement has now been superseded by the specially designed viewing tower. The house itself has Art Deco influences, and is one of the heritage buildings in the area.
The next offering is a somewhat weird house that appears to defy logic. I cannot think of a purpose for the erections atop the roof unless they have a Freudian significance. Nor would I want to sleep upstairs after a few drinks and forget which door to use.
These Adelaide apartments are heritage buildings - a former Navy base put to a new use. It is good to see historical buildings re-used, although to my eye this one is a little unprepossessing externally. Photos of the interior do look far more attractive though.
For even more unusual properties, be sure to check out
these unusual buildings in Semaphore .
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