A Metroland Villa - East Ballarat
Made of and red, brown bricks this neat Metroland villa in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, would have been perfect for a middle-class family.
This house with its stepped roof line features mottled terracotta tiles and cottage like windows, giving it a cozy and simple elegance which so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s.
The Metroland style, was most popular between the two World Wars, especially in the new garden suburbs and ribbon developments that appeared during this period.
This style of house would have appealed to the newly moneyed middle-classes who built homes in the burgeoning suburbs around old town centres around the world. Comfortable and very English, it would have represented the ability to afford chic modernity rather than the fusy Victorian and Edwardian villas of their forebears.
A Metroland Villa - East Ballarat
Made of and red, brown bricks this neat Metroland villa in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, would have been perfect for a middle-class family.
This house with its stepped roof line features mottled terracotta tiles and cottage like windows, giving it a cozy and simple elegance which so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s.
The Metroland style, was most popular between the two World Wars, especially in the new garden suburbs and ribbon developments that appeared during this period.
This style of house would have appealed to the newly moneyed middle-classes who built homes in the burgeoning suburbs around old town centres around the world. Comfortable and very English, it would have represented the ability to afford chic modernity rather than the fusy Victorian and Edwardian villas of their forebears.