Upper Floor of a Mock Tudor Villa - Kooyong
Set well back from the road behind an ivy covered wall, this villa with its generous proportions in the Melbourne suburb of Kooyong was probably the home of an upper-middle class family of a decent size with at least two servants and a daily maid-of-all work.
This Mock Tudor, or Turoresque style house with its stepped gabling, stuccoed brick work and the Mock Tudor windows was popular amongst the newly moneyed middle-classes who were building their own homes in the burgeoning suburbs of the 1920s and 1930s. It gave them the ability to live in chic and spacious modern style with all the mod-cons, without sacrificing the respectability of English design.
Upper Floor of a Mock Tudor Villa - Kooyong
Set well back from the road behind an ivy covered wall, this villa with its generous proportions in the Melbourne suburb of Kooyong was probably the home of an upper-middle class family of a decent size with at least two servants and a daily maid-of-all work.
This Mock Tudor, or Turoresque style house with its stepped gabling, stuccoed brick work and the Mock Tudor windows was popular amongst the newly moneyed middle-classes who were building their own homes in the burgeoning suburbs of the 1920s and 1930s. It gave them the ability to live in chic and spacious modern style with all the mod-cons, without sacrificing the respectability of English design.