An Arts and Crafts Style Villa - Ballarat
Standing well back from the street on a very large block, this impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style mansion would have been built in the first decade after Australian Federation in 1901.
The wonderful central gable is capped by a hipped roof treatment, an architectural feature which is very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the choice of a plain rough cast stuccoed rendering on the walls with minimal detailing by way of a few select picked out feature bricks. This villa has no stained glass in any of its windows.
Arts and Crafts houses challenged the formality of the mid and high Victorian styles that preceded it, and were often designed with uniquely angular floor plans. This villa appears to be no exception to the rule, with the main entrance to the house out of the photograph to the right hand side of the building.
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 Arts and Crafts Style Villa - Ballarat
Standing well back from the street on a very large block, this impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style mansion would have been built in the first decade after Australian Federation in 1901.
The wonderful central gable is capped by a hipped roof treatment, an architectural feature which is very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the choice of a plain rough cast stuccoed rendering on the walls with minimal detailing by way of a few select picked out feature bricks. This villa has no stained glass in any of its windows.
Arts and Crafts houses challenged the formality of the mid and high Victorian styles that preceded it, and were often designed with uniquely angular floor plans. This villa appears to be no exception to the rule, with the main entrance to the house out of the photograph to the right hand side of the building.
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.