East Melbourne, Darling Street 012, 014, The Old Police Station

Initially described in the Rate Books as six rooms, the following year the description changes to five rooms, pantry, bath and shed, and by 1875 it has become seven rooms. Fielding lived in the house until 1883 when he sold to Robert Richardson who added another room. From this time it was leased to the police and was the local police station. Whether there was a resident police officer or whether the station was manned round the clock by different shifts is not clear, but Winston Burchett reports that at midnight one night in 1919 Senior Constable Koetsveldt heard rapid gunfire close by which turned out to have come from the house in Darling Street on the corner of Gipps Street where one of Squizzy Taylor's gang was living. By 1900 James Perle Browne was the owner of the building. Browne was also the owner of the stables two doors down at No. 28. The house has been demolished and replaced by two town houses