The BuildingsLITTLE BOURKE STREET
365 Little Bourke Street
The building
A three-storey store and warehouse built in 1887 for the hardware and ironmongery merchant Thomas Warburton Pty Ltd, designed by the architecture firm Twentyman & Askew and built by William Radden. Its Little Bourke Street front is rendered brick; the Warburton Lane side keeps its original polychrome brickwork. One of a group of Warburton buildings raised here across the late nineteenth century, it was refurbished and subdivided around 2000 and now holds six apartments above a shop.
In brief
- 1865The Warburton family buys a block running from Bourke Street through to Little Bourke Street and builds shops and residences at 384–386 Bourke Street.
- 1886An application is lodged with the City of Melbourne to erect a new three-storey store and warehouse on the Little Bourke Street section of the land.
- 1887The store and warehouse is completed by builder William Radden to a design by the architecture firm Twentyman & Askew, with smaller warehouses raised at the rear.
- 1912The wider Warburton complex expands with three-storey brick warehouses in Warburton and Rankins lanes.
- 1965Thomas Warburton Pty Ltd's long association with the Bourke Street site ends when the property passes to William Drummond & Co Ltd.
The doorstep
Three places within a short walk.
What each one is, and how far it is from the front door. Select a place to see it on the map.
1
Nature636 m · 8 min walk
Flagstaff Gardens
Melbourne's oldest public park, on the hill that was the colony's first burial ground and signal station.
2
Dining270 m · 3 min walk
Patricia Coffee Brewers
A standing-room espresso bar at the rear of Little Bourke Street, single-minded about coffee since 2011 — no seats, no fuss.
3
Character552 m · 7 min walk
The Melbourne Athenaeum
Founded in 1839, it housed the city's first library and gallery and still runs a subscription library above Collins St.
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