A Large Red Brick Arts and Crafts Style Bungalow - Coburg
This impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style bungalow, built in Darlington Grove in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg, has an extremely austere garden to allow the house to be fully on show. The house is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon. I have a friend who grew up in Darlington Grove in the 1950s and remembers the middle-aged couple as his neighbours. He has confirmed that they still live there to this day. They must be in their 90s now, yet they both still keep the garden neat and trim!
Built in the years just before the Great War (1914), you can just start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. The choice of red brick to construct the villa with is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement, as is the restrained use of decoration - most noticably pediment decoration over the enclosed porch, and the shingled barge boards on both gables. The two sets of front windows feature leadlight upper panes of a geometric design. To either side of the drawing room chimney breast are wonderful windows of stained glass featuring Dutch scenes. The one nearest the street has a windmill atop a hill, whilst the one farthest away depicts a Dutch girl in traditional dress looking out to sea as she sits on a fence.
Arts and Crafts houses challenged the formality of the mid and high Victorian styles that preceded it, and were often designed with uniquely angular floor plans. This house's floor plan appears to be more traditional than others, with a central hallway off which the principal rooms were located.
A Large Red Brick Arts and Crafts Style Bungalow - Coburg
This impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style bungalow, built in Darlington Grove in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg, has an extremely austere garden to allow the house to be fully on show. The house is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon. I have a friend who grew up in Darlington Grove in the 1950s and remembers the middle-aged couple as his neighbours. He has confirmed that they still live there to this day. They must be in their 90s now, yet they both still keep the garden neat and trim!
Built in the years just before the Great War (1914), you can just start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. The choice of red brick to construct the villa with is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement, as is the restrained use of decoration - most noticably pediment decoration over the enclosed porch, and the shingled barge boards on both gables. The two sets of front windows feature leadlight upper panes of a geometric design. To either side of the drawing room chimney breast are wonderful windows of stained glass featuring Dutch scenes. The one nearest the street has a windmill atop a hill, whilst the one farthest away depicts a Dutch girl in traditional dress looking out to sea as she sits on a fence.
Arts and Crafts houses challenged the formality of the mid and high Victorian styles that preceded it, and were often designed with uniquely angular floor plans. This house's floor plan appears to be more traditional than others, with a central hallway off which the principal rooms were located.