Launceston has one of the most intact colonial and early Victorian cityscapes in Australia. Along the streets leading out of the city to the south – George, St John, Charles and their cross streets and small side streets – cottages and houses from the 1830s and 1840s sit cheek by jowl with larger Victorian and Federation houses as well as more recent dwellings. James Street, a short, narrow, rather steep side street in this urban quarter, is like this, beginning at the bottom of the rise with early colonial cottages and moving up the hill in chronological order.
Launceston is also a brick town. One of its earliest brickfields, at Princes Square,
