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 double storey 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 a full time domestic, if not a whole retinue of servants to keep it maintained for her Edwardian large family.
The villa is built of decorative red and brown bricks with a panel of clinker and brown brick nogging at the apex of the eaves. There are also a stepped design in brick at the end of the eaves. To add to its cottage-like appearance and to make it a true "Mock Tudor" villa, the house features an enclosed vestibule of faux latticework in black and wattle-and-daub painted white.
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.
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.
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 double storey 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 a full time domestic, if not a whole retinue of servants to keep it maintained for her Edwardian large family.
The villa is built of decorative red and brown bricks with a panel of clinker and brown brick nogging at the apex of the eaves. There are also a stepped design in brick at the end of the eaves. To add to its cottage-like appearance and to make it a true "Mock Tudor" villa, the house features an enclosed vestibule of faux latticework in black and wattle-and-daub painted white.
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.
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.
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.