An Art Deco Villa of Clinker Bricks - Ballarat
Standing well back from the road on a substantial block behind a well clipped hedge, this 1920s Art Deco villa with Arts and Crafts detailing in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree, would have been for a middle-class family.
Built of honeyed clinker bricks with red and brown feature brick detailing around the vestibule entrance and in geometric patterns across the walls, this house has typical Metroland suburban detailing. However the old fashioned sash windows and hipped roof are more in keeping with the prevailing fashions of the previous decade's Arts and Crafts Movement. The designers Percy Richards and Herbert Leslie Coburn of the Ballarat firm Richards, Coburn, Richards, were probably following the wishes of a more conservative client.
This style of house would have appealed to the up and coming middle-classes of Ballarat whose money came from local merchant trade, the wool or farming industries that developed in the Twentieth Century. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectablity and a mixture of traditional and modernity.
An Art Deco Villa of Clinker Bricks - Ballarat
Standing well back from the road on a substantial block behind a well clipped hedge, this 1920s Art Deco villa with Arts and Crafts detailing in the Ballarat suburb of Wendouree, would have been for a middle-class family.
Built of honeyed clinker bricks with red and brown feature brick detailing around the vestibule entrance and in geometric patterns across the walls, this house has typical Metroland suburban detailing. However the old fashioned sash windows and hipped roof are more in keeping with the prevailing fashions of the previous decade's Arts and Crafts Movement. The designers Percy Richards and Herbert Leslie Coburn of the Ballarat firm Richards, Coburn, Richards, were probably following the wishes of a more conservative client.
This style of house would have appealed to the up and coming middle-classes of Ballarat whose money came from local merchant trade, the wool or farming industries that developed in the Twentieth Century. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectablity and a mixture of traditional and modernity.