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A Metroland Style Villa - Ballarat

This wonderful Metroland Art Deco Villa can be found in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree.

 

Well proportioned, this small stand alone villa of clinker brick features a band of red and brown bricks around the foundations of the building as well as a row of feature bricks around the top of the verandah pillar.

 

This style of home was one that aspirational middle-class families in the 1920s wanted. 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.

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Uploaded on July 17, 2012
Taken on May 12, 2012