An Arts and Crafts Villa - Ballarat
This very unusual and impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa built in a quiet, tree lined side street may be found in the suburb of Wendouree in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat.
Built in the years just after the Great War (1918), this house is particularly special owing to the brown and red bricks with which it is constructed. The brickwork us the major design element of the house and gives it a rather Tudoresque style without the black and white stucco and fretwork usually attributed to such a style. The designers Percy Richards and Herbert Leslie Coburn of the Ballarat firm Richards, Coburn, Richards have shown admiration for the Arts and Crafts movement by making the bricks real features in their design. The Spanish Mission style grilles over the vestibuke ans side entrance were obviously a later edition.
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 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 Villa - Ballarat
This very unusual and impressive Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa built in a quiet, tree lined side street may be found in the suburb of Wendouree in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat.
Built in the years just after the Great War (1918), this house is particularly special owing to the brown and red bricks with which it is constructed. The brickwork us the major design element of the house and gives it a rather Tudoresque style without the black and white stucco and fretwork usually attributed to such a style. The designers Percy Richards and Herbert Leslie Coburn of the Ballarat firm Richards, Coburn, Richards have shown admiration for the Arts and Crafts movement by making the bricks real features in their design. The Spanish Mission style grilles over the vestibuke ans side entrance were obviously a later edition.
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 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.