Window Detail of a Metroland Style Villa - Ballarat
These pretty peep windows feature on a Metroland Art Deco Villa in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree.
Well proportioned, this small stand alone villa was biscuit coloured when previously photographed and unoccupied. In the ensuing months, the stuccoed brick walls have received a fresh coat of white paint. Sadly, this has covered the feature band of red and brown bricks around the foundations of the building which matches its neighbour. The picked out feature bricks around the chimney breast and above the windows to either side of the chimney have also been covered.
This style of home was one that aspirational middle-class families in the 1920s saught. Cottage like in style, it is not too showy, yet represented the comfort and modernity that the burgeoning Australian middle-class wanted. Adding to its cottage like appearance, it features latticed leadlight windows.
Window Detail of a Metroland Style Villa - Ballarat
These pretty peep windows feature on a Metroland Art Deco Villa in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree.
Well proportioned, this small stand alone villa was biscuit coloured when previously photographed and unoccupied. In the ensuing months, the stuccoed brick walls have received a fresh coat of white paint. Sadly, this has covered the feature band of red and brown bricks around the foundations of the building which matches its neighbour. The picked out feature bricks around the chimney breast and above the windows to either side of the chimney have also been covered.
This style of home was one that aspirational middle-class families in the 1920s saught. Cottage like in style, it is not too showy, yet represented the comfort and modernity that the burgeoning Australian middle-class wanted. Adding to its cottage like appearance, it features latticed leadlight windows.