A Weatherboard Victorian Villa - Flemington
This smart late Victorian boom period single storey villa in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Flemington is built of weatherboard.
Built between the 1880s and the 1890s, as were most of the residences in this area, this villa is not as grand as some of the polychromatic brick or stuccoed brick contempories. Built for a middle-class family, rather than an upper-middle class one, the house is not set as far back from the street, and is constructed of the cheaper alternative to brick: weatherboard. Nonetheless, the house is still quite substantial in size, has two chimneys and lovely sash windows with narrow side panes. It also maintains its original slate tile roof. No doubt the mistress of this house would still have had servants, but not as many as some of her richer neighbours; perhaps a maid-of-all-work who doubled as a cook and a "daily" who would have come to do the hardest chores on a daily basis for a few hours.
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.
A Weatherboard Victorian Villa - Flemington
This smart late Victorian boom period single storey villa in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Flemington is built of weatherboard.
Built between the 1880s and the 1890s, as were most of the residences in this area, this villa is not as grand as some of the polychromatic brick or stuccoed brick contempories. Built for a middle-class family, rather than an upper-middle class one, the house is not set as far back from the street, and is constructed of the cheaper alternative to brick: weatherboard. Nonetheless, the house is still quite substantial in size, has two chimneys and lovely sash windows with narrow side panes. It also maintains its original slate tile roof. No doubt the mistress of this house would still have had servants, but not as many as some of her richer neighbours; perhaps a maid-of-all-work who doubled as a cook and a "daily" who would have come to do the hardest chores on a daily basis for a few hours.
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.