An Arts and Crafts Style Bungalow - Ballarat
Surrounded by a well kept lawn, this sprawling Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style bungalow may be found at the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat.
Built in the years just before the Great War (1914), you can just start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular low slung Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. Although now painted white, the choice of red and brown brick to construct the house is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement, as is roughcast treatment of the wall above the brick dado. Elements of the Art Deco period of the 1920s are making themselves known in elements of this villa. The prominent gable features a geometric brick pattern underneath the eave which would originally have been picked out as an ornamental feature. A matching geometric pattern may be seen on the original stuccoed brick garden wall that surrounds the property, where the red bricks can be seen to great effect against their grey roughcast background. The windows also contain geometric Art Deco designs, rather than the more fluid Art Nouveau stained glass found in other villas of this era.
Arts and Crafts houses challenged the formality of the mid and high Victorian styles that preceded it, and were often designed with uniquely angular floor plans. However, this house's floor plan appears to be more traditional than others, with a central hallway off which the principal rooms were located.
This sizable house built on a large block in a prestigious street would have appealed to the moneyed middle-classes of Ballarat whose money came from the many businesses that boomed in the burgeoning city as a result of the Nineteenth Century gold rush. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectability and not inconsiderable wealth.
An Arts and Crafts Style Bungalow - Ballarat
Surrounded by a well kept lawn, this sprawling Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style bungalow may be found at the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat.
Built in the years just before the Great War (1914), you can just start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular low slung Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. Although now painted white, the choice of red and brown brick to construct the house is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement, as is roughcast treatment of the wall above the brick dado. Elements of the Art Deco period of the 1920s are making themselves known in elements of this villa. The prominent gable features a geometric brick pattern underneath the eave which would originally have been picked out as an ornamental feature. A matching geometric pattern may be seen on the original stuccoed brick garden wall that surrounds the property, where the red bricks can be seen to great effect against their grey roughcast background. The windows also contain geometric Art Deco designs, rather than the more fluid Art Nouveau stained glass found in other villas of this era.
Arts and Crafts houses challenged the formality of the mid and high Victorian styles that preceded it, and were often designed with uniquely angular floor plans. However, this house's floor plan appears to be more traditional than others, with a central hallway off which the principal rooms were located.
This sizable house built on a large block in a prestigious street would have appealed to the moneyed middle-classes of Ballarat whose money came from the many businesses that boomed in the burgeoning city as a result of the Nineteenth Century gold rush. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectability and not inconsiderable wealth.