"Wilton" a Queen Anne Villa - Ballarat
Situated well back from the street behind its original wooden picket fence, "Wilton" is a wonderful Edwardian villa featuring a concoction of Art Nouveau fretwork and pressed metal, half timbered gabling and tall chimneys.
Built in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree around the turn of the Twentieth Century, "Wilton" has been built in the Queen Anne style, which was mostly a residential style inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement in England, but also encompassed some of the more stylised elements of Art Nouveau, which gave it an more decorative look. The red brick from which the villa is built is in keeping with the Arts and Crafts movement. Yet the stylised fretwork of the verandah and the pressed metal decoration around the hexagonal tower are Art Nouveau in design.
Queen Anne style was most popular around the time of Federation. With complex roofline structures, ornamental towers of unusual proportions and undulating facades, many Queen Anne houses fell out of fashion at the beginning of the modern era, and were demolished.
This sizable 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.
"Wilton" a Queen Anne Villa - Ballarat
Situated well back from the street behind its original wooden picket fence, "Wilton" is a wonderful Edwardian villa featuring a concoction of Art Nouveau fretwork and pressed metal, half timbered gabling and tall chimneys.
Built in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree around the turn of the Twentieth Century, "Wilton" has been built in the Queen Anne style, which was mostly a residential style inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement in England, but also encompassed some of the more stylised elements of Art Nouveau, which gave it an more decorative look. The red brick from which the villa is built is in keeping with the Arts and Crafts movement. Yet the stylised fretwork of the verandah and the pressed metal decoration around the hexagonal tower are Art Nouveau in design.
Queen Anne style was most popular around the time of Federation. With complex roofline structures, ornamental towers of unusual proportions and undulating facades, many Queen Anne houses fell out of fashion at the beginning of the modern era, and were demolished.
This sizable 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.