"The Windsor" Flats - Malvern
After the Great War (1914 - 1918), higher costs of living and the "servant problem" made living in the grand mansions and villas built in the Victorian and Edwardian eras a far less practical and attractive option for both those looking for new housing, and those who lived in big houses. It was around this time, in answer to these problems, that flats and apartments began to replace some larger houses, and became fashionable to live in.
This stylish Mock Tudor block of two flats, featuring one dwelling above the other with an interconnecting staircase would have suited those of comfortable means who could afford to live in Malvern (the suburb in which these flats are located), and dispense with the difficulties of keeping a large retinue of staff.
This Mock Tudor, or Turoresque style house with its stepped gabling, stucco work between wooden latticing, brown and red bricks, stylised stepped edgeing beneath the eaves,and Mock Tudor latticed windows 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. Even the name: "The Windsor" is British!
Australia was still a British Colony when this house was built, and styles in the Motherland were mirrored in Australia.
"The Windsor" Flats - Malvern
After the Great War (1914 - 1918), higher costs of living and the "servant problem" made living in the grand mansions and villas built in the Victorian and Edwardian eras a far less practical and attractive option for both those looking for new housing, and those who lived in big houses. It was around this time, in answer to these problems, that flats and apartments began to replace some larger houses, and became fashionable to live in.
This stylish Mock Tudor block of two flats, featuring one dwelling above the other with an interconnecting staircase would have suited those of comfortable means who could afford to live in Malvern (the suburb in which these flats are located), and dispense with the difficulties of keeping a large retinue of staff.
This Mock Tudor, or Turoresque style house with its stepped gabling, stucco work between wooden latticing, brown and red bricks, stylised stepped edgeing beneath the eaves,and Mock Tudor latticed windows 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. Even the name: "The Windsor" is British!
Australia was still a British Colony when this house was built, and styles in the Motherland were mirrored in Australia.