The Gate, Porch and Name Plaque of "Carinya", an Arts and Crafts Style Villa - Ballarat

            "Carinya" is an Aboriginal word that means "cheerful".  This choice of name seems appropriate for this villa as it sits proudly behind its original stuccoed red brick fence. "Carinya" is a Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa that may be found at the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat.       

Built in the first decade of the Twentieth Century, the choice of a roughcast wall treatment above a red brick dado is very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement, as is the choice of terracotta tiles on the roof.  "Carinya" has a rounded gable treatment to its far right wall, a stylistic element that can also be found on Arts and Crafts houses in Australia.  The chimney of the "Carinya" feature red brick detailing which can be seen to great effect against its roughcast background.  "Carinya" has beautiful Art Nouveau stained glass windows and a neat portico supported by a thick pier.  "Carinya's" name plaque is located on the eave of the portico, so that all who enter know what "Carinya's" name is.  The villa also makes the air vents in its eave a feature, as it sprawls horizontally across the prominent gable.  

"Carinya" is one of a pair of Edwardian villas that share a central communal driveway.  It's pair is called "Allambi".  "Carinya" and "Allambi" mirror one another in layout and differ only slightly in detailing.

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.  With a front door built off to one side, "Carinya" may have a more unusual floor plan. 

"Carinya" would have appealed to the moneyed middle-classes of Ballarat whose money came from the many businesses that boomed in the burgeoning city as a result of the Nineteenth Century gold rush.  Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectability and not inconsiderable wealth.

Taken on: January 14, 2013

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