| House | $1,396,000  |
| Unit | $523,000 |
Surrounding suburbs
| Carlton North | $1,592,300 |
| East Melbourne | $3,052,500  |
| Fitzroy | $1,649,100 |
| Melbourne | $590,000 |
| Parkville | $1,881,400 |
| House | $875 |
| Unit | $583 |
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| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| Last updated on - May 21, 1999 What is significant? Carlton Police Station was designed by Public Works Department architects William Steel and George Watson and erected in 1878 by contractor William Smith. It is a two storey brick building in a restrained classical style. A two storey addition was added in 1890, built by John Dow. Both buildings are constructed of Hawthorn face brick on a basalt plinth and have red and cream face brick dressings. Both buildings have round-headed windows and the roofs are hipped and slate-clad. The 1878 building is strictly symmetrical while the rear 1890 structure is asymmetrically arranged. Police buildings like the 1878 front building usually contained a mess room, sergeants' and married constables' quarters, and a kitchen and bathroom on the ground floor. The first floor housed more of the sergeants' quarters and a dormitory. The rear building has an attached single-storeyed, coursed bluestone cell block at the rear. The station has an historical and physical relationship with the former courthouse on the other side of Drummond Street and forms part of a group of buildings around the intersection of Drummond and Elgin Streets which formed the civic core of Carlton for a long period from the late nineteenth century. How is it significant? Carlton Police Station is of historical, architectural and scientific significance to the State of Victoria. Why is it significant? Carlton Police Station is historically significant as one of a group of buildings which formed the civic core of nineteenth century Carlton. In close proximity to the old Carlton courthouse, the post office, a bank, Church and other early structures, the police station contributes to the historic character of this part of Carlton. Carlton Police Station is architecturally significant as an unusual combination of two police buildings of differing designs, one built in 1878, and the other in 1890. They highlight the change in Public Works Department architectural design in the intervening twelve years. The Station's front building is significant for demonstrating the typical Public Works Department layout of double-storey, six-roomed police quarters of the 1870s and 1880s period. Carlton Police Station became a prototype for later police stations at Richmond, Geelong and Kyneton. Carlton Police Station is scientifically significant for the survival in the 1890 lock-up of an early example of the Tobin Tube ventilation system. The system provided ventilation for each cell and nightpan. |
| 21 Aug 1995 |
| Replace existing roller door |
| (Source: Melbourne Council, reference no: TP-1995-799) |
| 30 Apr 2015 |
| Demolish brick boundary fence between 334 and 336 Drummond Street, Carlton. |
| (Source: Melbourne City Council, reference no: TP-2015-338) |
| 06 Mar 2019 |
| Buildings and works to an existing building |
| (Source: , reference no: ) |
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