[1] The land occupied by Young Street Terraces was originally part of the grounds of First Government House.

Between 1937–1982 the terraces provided temporary accommodation for nurses from Sydney Hospital, with the offices converted into living quarters.

In late 1997, the building was refurbished by the Department of Public Works and Services to provide office accommodation for the Sydney Festival and the NSW Historic Houses Trust.

The interior detail is largely intact in terms of skirting, architraves, doors, windows and their furniture, staircases and skirtings, architraves, doors, windows and their furniture, staircases and fireplaces, and the timber surrounds with fluted pilasters on the first floor.

Together with the Phillip Street Terraces, they represent an essentially residential form of building which is now rare in the Sydney CBD.

[2][1] Young Street Terraces was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

[1] This Wikipedia article was originally based on Young Street Terraces, entry number 974 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 13 October 2018.