A Metroland Mock Tudor Villa - Essendon
This wonderful Metroland "Mock Tudor" Art Deco Villa can be found in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon.
Well proportioned and set well back from the road, this large stand alone villa stands on the corner of two streets has a large street frontage, which suggests that it may have belonged to an upper-middle class family with more money than some of its smaller neighbours. The mistress of this house would have required the assistance of a "daily" woman if not a full time domestic to keep it maintained.
The villa features biscuit coloured stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns beneath the eaves, around the top of the gable and around the enclosed vestibule. The whole house has an exposed red and brown brick dado which helps the impressive chimney (featuring a brick nogging panel) to blend in. A spacious villa like this was 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. Adding to its cottage like appearance, it features latticed leadlight windows.
This house has a beautiful garden of well kept lawns and old shrubs and ornamental trees, some of which may be part of the original plantings made back in the 1920s when the house was first built. The property is surrounded by the original low stuccoded brick wall featuring sunburst garden gates.
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.
A Metroland Mock Tudor Villa - Essendon
This wonderful Metroland "Mock Tudor" Art Deco Villa can be found in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon.
Well proportioned and set well back from the road, this large stand alone villa stands on the corner of two streets has a large street frontage, which suggests that it may have belonged to an upper-middle class family with more money than some of its smaller neighbours. The mistress of this house would have required the assistance of a "daily" woman if not a full time domestic to keep it maintained.
The villa features biscuit coloured stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns beneath the eaves, around the top of the gable and around the enclosed vestibule. The whole house has an exposed red and brown brick dado which helps the impressive chimney (featuring a brick nogging panel) to blend in. A spacious villa like this was 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. Adding to its cottage like appearance, it features latticed leadlight windows.
This house has a beautiful garden of well kept lawns and old shrubs and ornamental trees, some of which may be part of the original plantings made back in the 1920s when the house was first built. The property is surrounded by the original low stuccoded brick wall featuring sunburst garden gates.
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.