An Art Deco Villa of Clinker Bricks - Ballarat
Standing well back from the road across a well clipped lawn, this substantial 1920s Art Deco villa in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree, would have been for a larger sized upper-class family.
Built of honeyed clinker bricks with red and brown feature brick detailing, this sprawling house with its wide gables and stepped chimney is far simpler than older Federation Queen Anne style properties in older subdivisions of Ballarat. It's simplicity extolls the clean lines of the Art Deco movement that was so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s. The cottage like decoration is typical of the "Metroland" suburban style. The white wrought-iron grille of curls enclosing the vestibule is more Spanish Mission in style.
This style of 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 respectablity and not inconsiderable wealth.
An Art Deco Villa of Clinker Bricks - Ballarat
Standing well back from the road across a well clipped lawn, this substantial 1920s Art Deco villa in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree, would have been for a larger sized upper-class family.
Built of honeyed clinker bricks with red and brown feature brick detailing, this sprawling house with its wide gables and stepped chimney is far simpler than older Federation Queen Anne style properties in older subdivisions of Ballarat. It's simplicity extolls the clean lines of the Art Deco movement that was so popular across Britain and her dominions during the 1920s and 1930s. The cottage like decoration is typical of the "Metroland" suburban style. The white wrought-iron grille of curls enclosing the vestibule is more Spanish Mission in style.
This style of 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 respectablity and not inconsiderable wealth.