Art Deco Metroland Maisonette in White - Preston
The facade of a pretty stylised white stuccoed brick Art Deco maisonette villa in the Melbourne suburb of Preston.
This cottage style with its low slung tile roof in a mixture of shades, white stucco work and picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns were very popular amongst the newly moneyed middle-class who could finally afford to buy their own homes. Comfortable and cottage like in the Metroland style of interwar Art Deco architecture so popular in Australia during the late 1920s, this house and many others like it represented stability and respectability, without being showy.
Although all very similar, each house could be afforded some individuality, usually in the window treatment given them. In this case an unusually low casement window, almost out of proportion with the height of the wall, is surrounded by a plaster rope "boisery" decoration.
This house has an appropriately charming cottage garden with standard roses, bush roses and daisies. It also still has its original side gate with a stepped brick geometric pattern along its top.
Art Deco Metroland Maisonette in White - Preston
The facade of a pretty stylised white stuccoed brick Art Deco maisonette villa in the Melbourne suburb of Preston.
This cottage style with its low slung tile roof in a mixture of shades, white stucco work and picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns were very popular amongst the newly moneyed middle-class who could finally afford to buy their own homes. Comfortable and cottage like in the Metroland style of interwar Art Deco architecture so popular in Australia during the late 1920s, this house and many others like it represented stability and respectability, without being showy.
Although all very similar, each house could be afforded some individuality, usually in the window treatment given them. In this case an unusually low casement window, almost out of proportion with the height of the wall, is surrounded by a plaster rope "boisery" decoration.
This house has an appropriately charming cottage garden with standard roses, bush roses and daisies. It also still has its original side gate with a stepped brick geometric pattern along its top.