"Tay Creggan", an Inter-War Mediterranean Villa - Ballarat
Built in the late 1920s or early 1930s, "Tay Creggan" is a classic Inter-War Mediterranean villa that may be found in the provincial Victorian city of Ballart.
"Tay Creggan" has many attributes of the Inter-War Mediterranean architectural movement. These include the light coloured and subtly textured wall treatment, an arcaded loggia enclosing the portico, Georgian style fan detailing above the windows and a medium pitch roof of Spanish inspired terracotta tiles.
Inter-War Mediterranean style was a regionalisation of Georgian domestic architecture. The style was introduced to Australia by the Professor of Architecture of the University of Sydney, Leslie Wilkinson (1882 - 1973) in 1918 after perceiving a similarity in temperature between temperate coastal regions of Australia and European Mediterranean environments. Practitioners in this style usually had a very wealthy clientele who wanted something a little more chic and European than the Spanish Mission style that came out of America at the same time.
"Tay Creggan" comes from the Scottish which means "house built on a rock". Whilst this villa is certainly not built on a rock, it has been built on a block of land that affords it fine views of nearby Lake Wendouree. Many enterprising Scottish immigrants settled in and around Ballarat, so the name might be a throw back to the owner's heritage.
"Tay Creggan" is sizable villa and would have appealed to the moneyed upper middle classes of Ballarat whose money came from either commercial aspects of Ballarat, or from the wool or farming industries that developed in the area post the Gold Rush boom of the Nineteenth Century.
"Tay Creggan", an Inter-War Mediterranean Villa - Ballarat
Built in the late 1920s or early 1930s, "Tay Creggan" is a classic Inter-War Mediterranean villa that may be found in the provincial Victorian city of Ballart.
"Tay Creggan" has many attributes of the Inter-War Mediterranean architectural movement. These include the light coloured and subtly textured wall treatment, an arcaded loggia enclosing the portico, Georgian style fan detailing above the windows and a medium pitch roof of Spanish inspired terracotta tiles.
Inter-War Mediterranean style was a regionalisation of Georgian domestic architecture. The style was introduced to Australia by the Professor of Architecture of the University of Sydney, Leslie Wilkinson (1882 - 1973) in 1918 after perceiving a similarity in temperature between temperate coastal regions of Australia and European Mediterranean environments. Practitioners in this style usually had a very wealthy clientele who wanted something a little more chic and European than the Spanish Mission style that came out of America at the same time.
"Tay Creggan" comes from the Scottish which means "house built on a rock". Whilst this villa is certainly not built on a rock, it has been built on a block of land that affords it fine views of nearby Lake Wendouree. Many enterprising Scottish immigrants settled in and around Ballarat, so the name might be a throw back to the owner's heritage.
"Tay Creggan" is sizable villa and would have appealed to the moneyed upper middle classes of Ballarat whose money came from either commercial aspects of Ballarat, or from the wool or farming industries that developed in the area post the Gold Rush boom of the Nineteenth Century.