Alameda is known for its Victorian houses ; 9 % of all single-family houses ( 1500 ) in Alameda are Victorian, and many more have been divided into two to four-unit dwellings.

The Old West End is a historic neighborhood of Victorian, Arts & Crafts, and other Edwardian style houses recognized by the National Register of Historic Places.

Nicholas Tucker described the early Harry Potter books as looking back to Victorian and Edwardian children's stories: Hogwarts was an old-style boarding school in which the teachers addressed pupils formally by their surnames and were most concerned with the reputations of the houses with which they were associated ; characters ' personalities were plainly shown by their appearances, starting with the Dursleys ; evil or malicious characters were to be crushed rather than reformed, including Filch's cat Mrs Norris ; and the hero, a mistreated orphan who found his true place in life, was charismatic and good at sports, but considerate and protective towards the weak.

Stained glass windows were popular in Victorian houses and some Wrightian houses, and are especially common in churches.

This high density is not formed from high-rise buildings ; instead, it has come about through the subdivision of large mid-rise Victorian and Georgian terraced houses ( generally of some four to six floors ) into flats.

Many San Francisco gays also moved there after about 1970 from what had been the formerly most prominent gay neighborhood, Polk Gulch, because large Victorian houses were available at low rents or available for purchase for low down payments when their former middle-class owners had fled to the suburbs.

The Castles to Country Houses exhibition contains a collection of 1 / 12 scale model houses ranging from the medieval to Victorian periods made by master miniaturist John Hodgeson.

On the hillside above the river are situated the stone-built 16th-century hunting lodge at Lincoln Hill, many 17th-and 18th-century workers cottages, some imposing Georgian houses built by ironmasters and mine and canal barge owners, and many early Victorian villas built from the various coloured bricks and tiles of the locality.

Many interesting Victorian houses around the Tannoch Conservation Area show Scottish cottage, Scottish Baronial, Classical architecture and Gothic influences.

The Estate mainly comprises substantial houses, was built in the grounds of the old Bedford Hill House and was the work of local Victorian builder, Alfred Heaver.

* Shaftesbury Park Estate, conservation area consisting of over a thousand Victorian houses preserved in their original style.

The area has attractive streets and garden squares lined with Victorian stucco terraces, mostly now subdivided into flats and boarding houses.

Built over in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it contains many fine examples of substantial Georgian and Victorian houses – most notably Michael Searles ' crescent of semi-detached terrace houses linked by colonnades, The Paragon ( c 1793-1807 ) – as well as some 1930s and 1960s additions.

Most of the area remained agricultural until the mid nineteenth century, the most notable building of the time being the ' Brockley Jack ' ( since rebuilt ), a large Victorian public house which today houses the Brockley Jack Theatre.

Its later development as a passenger line led to the redevelopment in the 1880s of the medieval core of the village on Homerton High Street with Victorian dwellings and public houses, and speculative building on the lands either side of Homerton High Street.

Much of this part is the Warner Estate built up with large well-appointed late Victorian houses.

Norbiton's housing stock largely consists of large family Victorian and Edwardian houses, plus small localised brownfield redevelopments of 1960s, 1980s and modern flats.

A triangular area of Northwood including the old High Street, Chester Road and Hallowell Road has been deemed a place of special-interest restriction, in order to protect the numerous Victorian houses situated there.

* Penge is home to a number of taverns and public houses, indeed it was noted in Victorian times for its ' 25 pubs to the square mile '.

There are a large number of fine houses in the area, many of them Victorian.

* A Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne and Victorian Opera ( Melbourne ) co-production of The Threepenny Opera was presented in Melbourne between 28 May and 17 June 2010 and again in Sydney by the Sydney Theatre Company in September 2011.

Despite being dominated by modern apartments and office towers Southbank has a number of significant heritage buildings existing in the Arts precinct, on the eastern end and along St Kilda Road, which includes the Victorian Arts Centre and National Gallery of Victoria ( 1960s ), parts of the Victorian College of the Arts campus as well as the Victoria Barracks and Malthouse Theatre.

The Melbourne Theatre Company has performed in many venues in its history, including the Russell Street Theatre, the Melbourne Athenaeum, St Martins Theatre, the Merlyn and Beckett Theatres at the CUB Malthouse, and the Playhouse and Fairfax Studio of the Victorian Arts Centre.

A Victorian footbridge beside Waddon New Road was dismantled to make way for the flyover that takes Tramlink over the West Croydon to Sutton railway line.

Dartmouth also has a pre-school in the centre of town, established for over 40 years and based in the old Victorian school rooms at South Ford Road.

Dover has one hospital, Buckland Hospital located in a former Victorian workhouse on Coombe Valley Road.

The road was the scene of frequent hold-ups during the Victorian gold rush by bushrangers, mostly former convicts from Tasmania ( then known as Van Diemen's Land ), which collectively became known as the St Kilda Road robberies.

The Great Ocean Road is an Australian National Heritage listed stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Torquay and Warrnambool.

The town centre and Strathblane Road have remaining Victorian shop / tenement buildings and a few Arts and crafts influenced commercial buildings.

All Saints Church, West Dulwich ( Church of England ) alongside Rosendale Road is a Victorian Gothic building, originally intended to be the cathedral for south London.

During the Victorian period, the village to the north of the Uxbridge Road began to slowly expand to the south of the road.

The Victorian poet Robert Browning moved from No. 1 Chichester Road to Beauchamp Lodge, 19 Warwick Crescent, in 1862 and lived there until 1887.

Camberwell Old Cemetery, on Forest Hill Road, is a later example of the ring of Victorian cemeteries that were built to alleviate the overcrowding of churchyards that was experienced with the rapid expansion of London in the 19th century.

* Thomas Crapper, the famous Victorian manufacturing plumber retired to live at 12 Thornsett Road ( c1897-1910 ).

Two notable exceptions are the classically grand parish church of West Hackney, St James's, on Stoke Newington Road, which dated from 1824, and St Faith's, a Victorian Gothic church by William Burges.

Victorian artist and illustrator Holland Tringham lived in Streatham, and reproductions of his work depicting local scenes can be seen at the pub in Streatham High Road that bears his name.

In particular Clifton Road, Belmont Road and Park Road exhibit some imposing Victorian and Edwardian villas.

Major landmarks include Cody's Hot Spot Gas Station ( 1998 ) on the corner of NC 107 and Cope Creek Road ( a gas station under the name of Cody's has been located there since the 1950s ), the Old Field Church and Cemetery ( 1830, the church later became Scotts Creek Baptist Church in Beta ), and an historic Victorian house that serves as a bed & breakfast.

Linacre's property on Banbury Road, Ursula Hicks House, is a three-storey Victorian mansion with 17 rooms.

The Victorian houses include 1 – 10 Bevington Road, 58 / 60 Woodstock Road, and 39 / 41 Banbury Road.

Munstervillage has been coined as a name for the tree-lined roads, in which Victorian and Edwardian houses are situated, that run off Munster Road which is a large residential road off Fulham Road in the northern end of Parsons Green.