An Art Deco Villa of Clinker Bricks - Ballarat
Standing amid a well maintained garden, this substantial 1920s Art Deco villa in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, would have been built for a larger sized middle-class family.
Built of red and brown feature bricks, this sprawling house with its high gables is far simpler than some of its older late Victorian or Federation Queen Anne style neighbours, extolling the clean lines of the Art Deco movement so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s. Built in the years after the Great War (1914 - 1918), you can start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. The overall design is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement. However, decoration typical of the "Metroland" Art Deco period are starting to appear in the design: most notably in the window design which features leadlight glass, rather than stained glass, in geometric patterns.
This style of house would have appealed to the merchant middle-classes of Ballarat whose money came from the business generated in the burgeoning city by the Nineteenth Century gold rush. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectability and not inconsiderable wealth, yet not been to showy.
An Art Deco Villa of Clinker Bricks - Ballarat
Standing amid a well maintained garden, this substantial 1920s Art Deco villa in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, would have been built for a larger sized middle-class family.
Built of red and brown feature bricks, this sprawling house with its high gables is far simpler than some of its older late Victorian or Federation Queen Anne style neighbours, extolling the clean lines of the Art Deco movement so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s. Built in the years after the Great War (1914 - 1918), you can start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. The overall design is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement. However, decoration typical of the "Metroland" Art Deco period are starting to appear in the design: most notably in the window design which features leadlight glass, rather than stained glass, in geometric patterns.
This style of house would have appealed to the merchant middle-classes of Ballarat whose money came from the business generated in the burgeoning city by the Nineteenth Century gold rush. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectability and not inconsiderable wealth, yet not been to showy.