"Hillside" Victorian Villa - Flemington
"Hillside" is a magnificent late Victorian boom period villa in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Flemington.
Built between the 1880s and the 1890s, as were most of the residences in this area, this villa of stuccoed brick painted grey has a large bay window with floral decoration above and column decoration to either side of the large sash windows. Similar ornate plasterwork cane be seen on the panel under the eaves. However its crowning glory must be without doubt its wonderful verandah and balcony with its intricately frilly lace like wrought iron fretwork.
Flemington was a suburb in its own right by 1882 when it broke away from the City of Essendon, and at the time these houses were built, Flemington was had a mixture of lower middle, middle and upper middle-class citizens. Situated on Brighton Street, this spacious, stand-alone residence would have been for the latter of these groups. Houses like these would have suited a large Victorian family, and would have required a small retinue of servants to maintain.
"Hillside" Victorian Villa - Flemington
"Hillside" is a magnificent late Victorian boom period villa in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Flemington.
Built between the 1880s and the 1890s, as were most of the residences in this area, this villa of stuccoed brick painted grey has a large bay window with floral decoration above and column decoration to either side of the large sash windows. Similar ornate plasterwork cane be seen on the panel under the eaves. However its crowning glory must be without doubt its wonderful verandah and balcony with its intricately frilly lace like wrought iron fretwork.
Flemington was a suburb in its own right by 1882 when it broke away from the City of Essendon, and at the time these houses were built, Flemington was had a mixture of lower middle, middle and upper middle-class citizens. Situated on Brighton Street, this spacious, stand-alone residence would have been for the latter of these groups. Houses like these would have suited a large Victorian family, and would have required a small retinue of servants to maintain.