A Large Red Brick Arts and Crafts Style Bungalow - Essendon
This impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style bungalow, built in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon, has an extremely austere garden to allow the house to be fully on show.
Built in the years just before the Great War (1914), you can just start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. The choice of red brick to construct the bungalow with is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement as are the latticed leadlight window panes. The builder has shown his admiration for the Arts and Crafts movement by making the bricks real features in their design and layout across the differing sections of the facade. The choice of decoration however is more leaning towards the Metroland style that became so popular on Californian bungalows in the early to mid 1920s - most noticably the geometric patterns on the piers and balustrade of the enclosed porch, and under the bay window. The bungalow still retains its original low brick garden wall.
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 house's floor plan appears to be more traditional than others, with a central hallway off which the principal rooms were located.
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 bungalow like this built in one of the finer pockets of the suburb suggests that it was built for an aspiring upper middle-class family. This bungalow would have required live-in domestics to help the mistress of the house maintain it for her family.
A Large Red Brick Arts and Crafts Style Bungalow - Essendon
This impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style bungalow, built in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon, has an extremely austere garden to allow the house to be fully on show.
Built in the years just before the Great War (1914), you can just start to see the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s. The choice of red brick to construct the bungalow with is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement as are the latticed leadlight window panes. The builder has shown his admiration for the Arts and Crafts movement by making the bricks real features in their design and layout across the differing sections of the facade. The choice of decoration however is more leaning towards the Metroland style that became so popular on Californian bungalows in the early to mid 1920s - most noticably the geometric patterns on the piers and balustrade of the enclosed porch, and under the bay window. The bungalow still retains its original low brick garden wall.
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 house's floor plan appears to be more traditional than others, with a central hallway off which the principal rooms were located.
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 bungalow like this built in one of the finer pockets of the suburb suggests that it was built for an aspiring upper middle-class family. This bungalow would have required live-in domestics to help the mistress of the house maintain it for her family.