#ruined facade

[upsurgecomic]

[vanishingsydney]

Former Commercial Banking Company of Sydney branch building, with four strange, morose, beady-eyed lion head motifs on the original facade. Most recently an art supplies shop, obvs, now vacant. Rozelle.

[vanishingsydney]

Absolute shocker. Bricked-in facade of what was probably a late Victorian-era lodging house (c.1884-89) to create extra flats in what is now an apartment building. Only the very top of the original facade survives and is mostly obscured from view at street level. Obviously added-on well before heritage regulations became a thing in the planning approval process. Just plain awful. Camperdown.