A Mock Tudor Style Villa - Ascot Vale
The facade of a Mock Tudor style villa in white and cream stucco, and red brick in the Melbourne suburb of Ascot Vale.
Set well back from the road behind its original low Art Deco fence, this house with its generous proportions was probably the home of an upper-middle class family of a decent size.
This English Turoresque style with its half-timbered gabling and stuccoed brick work with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns, and the Mock Tudor entrance with its red brick canopy was popular in the early 1920s amongst the newly moneyed middle-classes who could finally afford to leave the inner city and buy their own homes in the burgeoning suburbs. It gave them the ability to live in chic and spacious modern style with all the mod-cons, without sacrificing the respectability of English design.
Australia was still a British Colony when this house was built, and styles in the Motherland were mirrored in Australia.
Ascot Vale, etablished in the late 1880s and early 1890s is bound in the west by the Maribyrnong River, in the north by Maribyrnong and Ormond Roads, in the east by the Moonee Ponds Creek, and in the south by Lyons Road, Epsom Road to the railway line thence generally north-east to Moonee Ponds Creek. Like its neighbouring suburb Flemington, Ascot Vale had a mixture of lower middle, middle and upper middle-class citizens. Situated on Union Road, this large residence would have required a small retinue of servants to maintain it for the family that lived in it.
A Mock Tudor Style Villa - Ascot Vale
The facade of a Mock Tudor style villa in white and cream stucco, and red brick in the Melbourne suburb of Ascot Vale.
Set well back from the road behind its original low Art Deco fence, this house with its generous proportions was probably the home of an upper-middle class family of a decent size.
This English Turoresque style with its half-timbered gabling and stuccoed brick work with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns, and the Mock Tudor entrance with its red brick canopy was popular in the early 1920s amongst the newly moneyed middle-classes who could finally afford to leave the inner city and buy their own homes in the burgeoning suburbs. It gave them the ability to live in chic and spacious modern style with all the mod-cons, without sacrificing the respectability of English design.
Australia was still a British Colony when this house was built, and styles in the Motherland were mirrored in Australia.
Ascot Vale, etablished in the late 1880s and early 1890s is bound in the west by the Maribyrnong River, in the north by Maribyrnong and Ormond Roads, in the east by the Moonee Ponds Creek, and in the south by Lyons Road, Epsom Road to the railway line thence generally north-east to Moonee Ponds Creek. Like its neighbouring suburb Flemington, Ascot Vale had a mixture of lower middle, middle and upper middle-class citizens. Situated on Union Road, this large residence would have required a small retinue of servants to maintain it for the family that lived in it.