An Arts and Crafts Style Bungalow - Ballarat
Surrounded by a well kept garden and neatly trimmed 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 mid 1920s. The choice of red 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, the slate roof tiles and the terracotta capping. The stylish wide pillars of the portico, supported by four wooden columns can also be found on Arts and Crafts houses of the late teens in Australia. The chimneys of the villa feature red brick detailing which can be seen to great effect against their grey roughcast background. The villa also makes the air vents in its eaves a feature, as like the villa itself, they sprawl horizontally across both the front and the side of the facade. The windows along the front of the facade are all plain, however, looking around the chimney nooks, you will find fluid Art Nouveau stained glass windows in golden yellow and blue glass.
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. With a front door built off to one side of the villa's enclosed portico, this house may have a more unusual floor plan.
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 garden and neatly trimmed 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 mid 1920s. The choice of red 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, the slate roof tiles and the terracotta capping. The stylish wide pillars of the portico, supported by four wooden columns can also be found on Arts and Crafts houses of the late teens in Australia. The chimneys of the villa feature red brick detailing which can be seen to great effect against their grey roughcast background. The villa also makes the air vents in its eaves a feature, as like the villa itself, they sprawl horizontally across both the front and the side of the facade. The windows along the front of the facade are all plain, however, looking around the chimney nooks, you will find fluid Art Nouveau stained glass windows in golden yellow and blue glass.
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. With a front door built off to one side of the villa's enclosed portico, this house may have a more unusual floor plan.
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.