An Arts and Crafts Villa with a Spanish Mission Style Facelift - Travancore
This beautiful Arts and Crafts style villa built in a quiet, tree lined street in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore received a facelift in the 1920s.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the hip roof of terracotta roof tiles is very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the overall design with a central porch with a door to one side flanked by large windows. Yet somewhere in the 1920s, the facade of the house was updated to the prevailing style of the time; Spanish Mission, giving it a more hacienda style with three wonderful arches of stuccoed brick supported by barley twist columns. The windows were updated as well, with the original bay windows being replaced by flat ones with decorative boiseries and stylised sunray designs over them and window boxes beneath them. In spite of this amalgum of two very different styles, the house is quite charming, and its combination makes it more unique than its neighbours.
The Arts and Crafts style was most popular in the years just before and after Australian Federation, whilst the Spanish Mission style was typically a style that emerged in California during the interwar years and spread across the world.
Travancore is a bijou suburb named after a beautiful Victorian mansion erected in 1863. The mansion's grounds were subdivided in the late 1890s to form the new suburb, which consists only of only about five streets. With commanding views of Royal Park, the area was much sought after by aspiring middle and upper middle-class citizens. This spacious stand alone double brick residence would have been acquired by the latter of these groups. Houses like these would have suited a medium sized Edwardian family, and would have required a small retinue of servants to maintain.
The whole house, which has a large street frontage, is surrounded by a well established garden, including a splendid hedge and several well established birch trees.
An Arts and Crafts Villa with a Spanish Mission Style Facelift - Travancore
This beautiful Arts and Crafts style villa built in a quiet, tree lined street in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore received a facelift in the 1920s.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the hip roof of terracotta roof tiles is very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the overall design with a central porch with a door to one side flanked by large windows. Yet somewhere in the 1920s, the facade of the house was updated to the prevailing style of the time; Spanish Mission, giving it a more hacienda style with three wonderful arches of stuccoed brick supported by barley twist columns. The windows were updated as well, with the original bay windows being replaced by flat ones with decorative boiseries and stylised sunray designs over them and window boxes beneath them. In spite of this amalgum of two very different styles, the house is quite charming, and its combination makes it more unique than its neighbours.
The Arts and Crafts style was most popular in the years just before and after Australian Federation, whilst the Spanish Mission style was typically a style that emerged in California during the interwar years and spread across the world.
Travancore is a bijou suburb named after a beautiful Victorian mansion erected in 1863. The mansion's grounds were subdivided in the late 1890s to form the new suburb, which consists only of only about five streets. With commanding views of Royal Park, the area was much sought after by aspiring middle and upper middle-class citizens. This spacious stand alone double brick residence would have been acquired by the latter of these groups. Houses like these would have suited a medium sized Edwardian family, and would have required a small retinue of servants to maintain.
The whole house, which has a large street frontage, is surrounded by a well established garden, including a splendid hedge and several well established birch trees.