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 symmetrical, this villa is smaller than its older neighbours and may have belonged to an aspiring middle class family with less money than other families in the street. Nonetheless, the mistress of this house would have required the assistance of a "daily" woman to keep it maintained.
The villa features biscuit coloured stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns, most noticeably around the enclosed vestibule and on the chimney. The whole house has a red and brown brick fence around it. 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.
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 symmetrical, this villa is smaller than its older neighbours and may have belonged to an aspiring middle class family with less money than other families in the street. Nonetheless, the mistress of this house would have required the assistance of a "daily" woman to keep it maintained.
The villa features biscuit coloured stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns, most noticeably around the enclosed vestibule and on the chimney. The whole house has a red and brown brick fence around it. 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.
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.