An Arts and Crafts Style Villa - Ballarat
Standing well back from the street on a very large block behind its original high brick wall, this impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa of grand proportions would have been built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914).
The the choice of red brick with which to build the house is very Arts and Crafts Movement inspired. 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 and the garden wall. The sprawling villa features wonderful hipped roof with a central gable which has a sweeping balcony. Also Arts and Crafts inspired is the shingling under the bay windows. Unlike its more stylised Queen Anne neighbours, this villa has no stained glass in any of its windows, only leadlight panels set in large squares in the upper panes.
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 style of house would have appealed to the moneyed upper-classes of Ballarat whose money came from either the Nineteenth Century gold rush, or from the wool or farming industries that developed post the boom. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectable and not inconsiderable wealth. Being quite original in design also suggests that the family wished to express their artistic influence and temperament through the design of the villa.
An Arts and Crafts Style Villa - Ballarat
Standing well back from the street on a very large block behind its original high brick wall, this impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa of grand proportions would have been built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914).
The the choice of red brick with which to build the house is very Arts and Crafts Movement inspired. 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 and the garden wall. The sprawling villa features wonderful hipped roof with a central gable which has a sweeping balcony. Also Arts and Crafts inspired is the shingling under the bay windows. Unlike its more stylised Queen Anne neighbours, this villa has no stained glass in any of its windows, only leadlight panels set in large squares in the upper panes.
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 style of house would have appealed to the moneyed upper-classes of Ballarat whose money came from either the Nineteenth Century gold rush, or from the wool or farming industries that developed post the boom. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectable and not inconsiderable wealth. Being quite original in design also suggests that the family wished to express their artistic influence and temperament through the design of the villa.