Houses

Further Inter-War Domestic Styles C1925-39:

Exotica: Spanish, Italian, Mediterranean

Examples:

• Pinehill, 34 Pinehill Drive (1926)

Post-Bungalow styles were more frivolous in their approach: the Spanish. Mission, Italian Villa and Mediterranean Villa types (c1925-35) all having tiled, hipped roofs, arched porches and cream-painted textured stucco cladding. Theses styles provided a base for a sequence of developments which led to the 1950s suburban multi-fronted 'brick veneer'. Each had its particular attributes, intermixing as hybrids of the three; the Spanish Mission had more deeply textured stucco, sometimes in a fan pattern; the Italian villa had arcaded porches and both could have Cordova pattern terracotta tiles.

26. Lord Bruce's Pinehill, a complete example of the Spanish provincial villa revival.

27. Georgian revival (American) at St. Mirins, Golf Links Road

28. Tudor revival or Neo-Tudor style at the Long Island Golf Clubhouse, with the typical Italian cypress of the era nearby: half timbered gables, picturesque roof forms and clinker bricks are all typical.

Moderne

Example:

• 318 Nepean Highway (timber)

Along the way the double-fronted L-plan villa was influenced by European Modern to become the Moderne style locally and was used c1935-55. Cream and manganese (trim) bricks were used but smooth stucco was too and rarely timber. Some roofs were flat, with parapets (part or whole) but others were hipped with glazed terra-cotta tiles, Marseilles pattern. This sometimes exciting style was reduced to the bare essentials post-war and became the cream brick veneer.

Tudor and Georgian Revived

Examples:

• (Old English/Tudor) 50 Warringa Road;
• Examples (Georgian revival) 638 Nepean Highway

Contemporary styles to the Moderne were more romantic in nature. One was the Old English or neo-Tudor where clinker bricks, diamond-pane casement windows and steep half-timbered gables were the norm. There was also the Georgian revival or neo-Georgian for the more ostentatious house of the 1930s with its hipped roof form, smooth stucco walls, porticoed entrance and multi-paned windows. These are still being built.