Cream Metroland Art Deco Villa - Travancore
This wonderfully stylised "Metroland" Art Deco villa in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore has a large street frontage, and would have been home to a medium sized family when first built.
Well proportioned, this stand alone villa has cream stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown feature bricks in geometric patterns along the interconnecting walls and around the windows. It also features leadlight windows with a geometric pattern picked out in frosted, bevilled and plain glass. This house even has its original fly screens (an essential domestic item in Australia) on the lower panels of the bay window. The picked out brick pattern also appears in original the stuccoed brick fence which surrounds the property.
This house has a beautiful garden with any number of perenials including geraniums and exotics, such as camelia trees and connifers.
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 later of these groups and is equally as grand in size as some of its Queen Anne and Arts and Crafts neighbours. Houses like these would have suited a medium sized family, and would still have required assistance from a number of servants in spite of many new and modern conveniences that would have been built into the house.
Cream Metroland Art Deco Villa - Travancore
This wonderfully stylised "Metroland" Art Deco villa in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore has a large street frontage, and would have been home to a medium sized family when first built.
Well proportioned, this stand alone villa has cream stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown feature bricks in geometric patterns along the interconnecting walls and around the windows. It also features leadlight windows with a geometric pattern picked out in frosted, bevilled and plain glass. This house even has its original fly screens (an essential domestic item in Australia) on the lower panels of the bay window. The picked out brick pattern also appears in original the stuccoed brick fence which surrounds the property.
This house has a beautiful garden with any number of perenials including geraniums and exotics, such as camelia trees and connifers.
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 later of these groups and is equally as grand in size as some of its Queen Anne and Arts and Crafts neighbours. Houses like these would have suited a medium sized family, and would still have required assistance from a number of servants in spite of many new and modern conveniences that would have been built into the house.