"Loreto" a Mock Tudor Metroland Villa - Essendon
"Loreto" is a wonderful "Mock Tudor" Metroland Art Deco Villa in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon. It is named after a little Italian village. The name is written in very cursive script between the two windows on the right-hand side of the facade.
Well proportioned, "Loreto" is a stand alone villa with biscuit coloured stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns along the interconnecting walls and around the central porch. It also features leadlight windows with a beautiful Art Deco sunburst pattern picked out in frosted, bevilled and plain glass. However, one of its most impressive features is the red brick stepped chimney.
This house has a beautiful garden with any number of perenials including geraniums and salvias and exotics, some of which have probably been growing in the garden since the house was first built in the early 1920s. The whole property is surrounded by "Loreto's" original low brick wall featuring brick nogging.
Essendon was etablished in the 1860s and became an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens. Modern villas like these were very much the style of home that aspirational middle-class families in the 1920s saught. Cottage like in style, it is not too showy, yet represented the comfort and modernity that the burgeoning Australian middle-class wanted.
"Loreto" a Mock Tudor Metroland Villa - Essendon
"Loreto" is a wonderful "Mock Tudor" Metroland Art Deco Villa in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon. It is named after a little Italian village. The name is written in very cursive script between the two windows on the right-hand side of the facade.
Well proportioned, "Loreto" is a stand alone villa with biscuit coloured stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns along the interconnecting walls and around the central porch. It also features leadlight windows with a beautiful Art Deco sunburst pattern picked out in frosted, bevilled and plain glass. However, one of its most impressive features is the red brick stepped chimney.
This house has a beautiful garden with any number of perenials including geraniums and salvias and exotics, some of which have probably been growing in the garden since the house was first built in the early 1920s. The whole property is surrounded by "Loreto's" original low brick wall featuring brick nogging.
Essendon was etablished in the 1860s and became an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens. Modern villas like these were very much the style of home that aspirational middle-class families in the 1920s saught. Cottage like in style, it is not too showy, yet represented the comfort and modernity that the burgeoning Australian middle-class wanted.