A Metroland Mock Tudor Villa in White - Essendon
This wonderful Metroland "Mock Tudor" Art Deco Villa can be found in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon.
Well proportioned, the stand alone villa with white painted stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns beneath the eaves and around the enclosed vestibule 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 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 brick wall featuring brick nogging and cornices, which are echoed on the villa's "olde English" chimney.
This villa is almost exactly the same as another I found in Essendon on an earlier visit: www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/6088446999 The only real differences are that this villa has different picked out brick patterns and that it has a latticed nook to the far left of the house, whereas the other villa has an arched window in the same shape.
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 villa like this may have required the employment of a live-in maid or two to assist the mistress of the house keep the villa well maintained.
A Metroland Mock Tudor Villa in White - Essendon
This wonderful Metroland "Mock Tudor" Art Deco Villa can be found in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon.
Well proportioned, the stand alone villa with white painted stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns beneath the eaves and around the enclosed vestibule 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 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 brick wall featuring brick nogging and cornices, which are echoed on the villa's "olde English" chimney.
This villa is almost exactly the same as another I found in Essendon on an earlier visit: www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/6088446999 The only real differences are that this villa has different picked out brick patterns and that it has a latticed nook to the far left of the house, whereas the other villa has an arched window in the same shape.
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 villa like this may have required the employment of a live-in maid or two to assist the mistress of the house keep the villa well maintained.