An Arts and Crafts Style Villa - Essendon
This smart Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa may be found in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the shingled barge boards beneath the gable, the rough cast stuccoed brick upper dado, and the square window awnings over bay window are very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the choice of red brick to build the villa with.
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 is a fine example with the entrance at the side of the house, rather than at the front as Victorian homes had.
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 large villa like this built in one of the finer pockets of the suburb suggests that it was built for an aspiring upper middle-class family of some means. A villa like this would have required the employment of a retinue of staff to keep it well maintained.
An Arts and Crafts Style Villa - Essendon
This smart Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa may be found in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the shingled barge boards beneath the gable, the rough cast stuccoed brick upper dado, and the square window awnings over bay window are very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the choice of red brick to build the villa with.
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 is a fine example with the entrance at the side of the house, rather than at the front as Victorian homes had.
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 large villa like this built in one of the finer pockets of the suburb suggests that it was built for an aspiring upper middle-class family of some means. A villa like this would have required the employment of a retinue of staff to keep it well maintained.