Mock Tudor Villa - Kooyong
After the Great War (1914 - 1918), although many people were affected by the "servant problem", it was not impossible to find good help, it simply meant living in a comfortable style, rather than a grand one.
Set well back from the road, 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, buttercup yellow stuccoed brick work, picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns, stylised stepped edgeing beneath the eaves, shutters and the Mock Tudor lamp above the porch was popular amongst the newly moneyed middle-classes who could finally afford to leave the inner city buy their own homes in the burgeoning suburbs. 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.
Australia was still a British Colony when this house was built, and styles in the Motherland were mirrored in Australia.
Mock Tudor Villa - Kooyong
After the Great War (1914 - 1918), although many people were affected by the "servant problem", it was not impossible to find good help, it simply meant living in a comfortable style, rather than a grand one.
Set well back from the road, 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, buttercup yellow stuccoed brick work, picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns, stylised stepped edgeing beneath the eaves, shutters and the Mock Tudor lamp above the porch was popular amongst the newly moneyed middle-classes who could finally afford to leave the inner city buy their own homes in the burgeoning suburbs. 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.
Australia was still a British Colony when this house was built, and styles in the Motherland were mirrored in Australia.