"Norwood House" a Polychromatic Brick Victorian Villa - Moonee Ponds
Set well back from the street amid a formal garden of lawns and brick edged garden beds, "Norwood House", a large double storey Victorian villa constructed in the 1890s is situated in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds.
This large villa has a splendid front verandah with elegant cast iron lacework showing fern fronds. The roof is made of slate, whilst the verandah is of corrugated iron. Built of polychromatic bricks, "Norwood House" uses them to great effect, making the walls and the arched window surrounds real features of the villa. "Norwood House's" foundations are of bluestone.
Moonee Ponds, like its neighbouring boroughs of Ascot Vale and Essendon, was etablished in the late 1880s and early 1890s. However, unlike its neighbours, it was an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens. Houses like these would have suited a large Victorian family, and would have required a small retinue of servants to maintain.
"Norwood House" a Polychromatic Brick Victorian Villa - Moonee Ponds
Set well back from the street amid a formal garden of lawns and brick edged garden beds, "Norwood House", a large double storey Victorian villa constructed in the 1890s is situated in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds.
This large villa has a splendid front verandah with elegant cast iron lacework showing fern fronds. The roof is made of slate, whilst the verandah is of corrugated iron. Built of polychromatic bricks, "Norwood House" uses them to great effect, making the walls and the arched window surrounds real features of the villa. "Norwood House's" foundations are of bluestone.
Moonee Ponds, like its neighbouring boroughs of Ascot Vale and Essendon, was etablished in the late 1880s and early 1890s. However, unlike its neighbours, it was an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens. Houses like these would have suited a large Victorian family, and would have required a small retinue of servants to maintain.