A Deco Villa of Clinker Brick - East Ballarat
Ballarat is a provincial Victorian town established during the Australian Gold Rush. For many years it was an extremly prosperous town which demonstrated its wealth through architecture on a grand scale. As a result, there are buildings and public infrastructure from different decades and even different centuries right alongside one another. Although not famous for its Art Deco architecture, the city does have some fine examples of interwar and post war architecture when the gold boom was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture.
Made of and honey coloured clinker bricks with red and brown feature brick detailing, this neat Metroland villa would have been perfect for a middle-class family.
What makes this villa stand out from its neighbours is its wonderful angular portico which features four white Ionic columns and a very Jazz Age stepped balustrade. Neither strictly Art Deco nor Spanish Mission, this villa is an amalgum of these styles, unique to the interwar period. With a low roofline and simple sash windows without ornamentation, the villa has a cozy and simple style 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 Deco Villa of Clinker Brick - East Ballarat
Ballarat is a provincial Victorian town established during the Australian Gold Rush. For many years it was an extremly prosperous town which demonstrated its wealth through architecture on a grand scale. As a result, there are buildings and public infrastructure from different decades and even different centuries right alongside one another. Although not famous for its Art Deco architecture, the city does have some fine examples of interwar and post war architecture when the gold boom was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture.
Made of and honey coloured clinker bricks with red and brown feature brick detailing, this neat Metroland villa would have been perfect for a middle-class family.
What makes this villa stand out from its neighbours is its wonderful angular portico which features four white Ionic columns and a very Jazz Age stepped balustrade. Neither strictly Art Deco nor Spanish Mission, this villa is an amalgum of these styles, unique to the interwar period. With a low roofline and simple sash windows without ornamentation, the villa has a cozy and simple style 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.