Queen Anne or Federation Queen Anne?

Queen Anne styled mansion located in South Yarra, Victoria.
Heritage Victoria, Queen Anne

• Often two storied
• wealthy homes

steeply pitched usually slate tiled roofs,

• often with a tall turret called a ‘witches hat’ or a ‘candle-snuffer’
• usually with a gable facing the street;
• extensive decorative embellishment,
• finials,
• dragons and gargoyles, esp. in Victoria;
• cannot see rafter ends or Victorian style eaves support structures
• tall chimney stacks often with multiple pots
• roof tiles in elaborate shapes

• Mostly single storey

steeply pitched terracotta tiled roofs, often using orange Marseilles tiles, sometimes slate

• an imitation tower or small turret often over a verandah
• always with a gable end facing the street;
• decorative embellishment, including terracotta ridge cappings, finials, dragons and gargoyles;
• Rafter ends visible under roof line
• chimney cornices and terracotta pots
• Marseilles tiles, initially imported from France, become the typical material for roofs

Roscraig, Hobart

87 Coogee Bay Road

Heritage Victoria, Queen Anne

Albyn House, Kensington Gardens, SA

• sometimes minimal verandah or colonnade;
• verandah roof separate to main roof
• arched decoration common
• fretted frieze panels and post brackets,
• iron or masonry verandah posts, sometimes wooden
• fretwork features geometric patterns

• fretted frieze panels and post brackets,
• square verandah posts,
• fretwork featuring patterns ranging from intricate geometric to extravagant Art Nouveau designs
• smaller homes, usually single storey

Heritage Victoria, Queen Anne

• bay windows framed in brick or iron, rarely wood
• leadlight in geometricpatterns, (Victorian style)
• rectangles often of plain, not coloured glass above windows
• bulls-eye windows in gable ends or in series, often not made of coloured leadlight

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• timber-framed bay windows usually white-painted
• leadlight in Art Nouveau style
• rectangles of coloured glass above windows
• bulls-eye leadlight windows set head-high in feature walls

1 Hilda Crescent, Hawthorn

Rotha 29 Harcourt Street Hawthorn

Homerton House – South Yarra by Dean-Melbourne

Homerton House – South Yarra by Dean-Melbourne

• Red brick! Except in S.A. and W.A. stonework
• strong colours, textures and ornament applied fairly evenly over the whole building
• red brickwork with flush joints and slate roofs
• gable ends highly ornamented
• timber, plaster or stucco mouldings and battens to gable ends usually painted a dark colour
• other woodwork painted cream, brown or green
• brickwork rarely painted, red oxide used in association with tuck-pointing

• Often red brick, stone if available
• strong colours, textures and ornament applied over the front of the building
• red brickwork with flush joints and tiled roofs
• gable ends rough cast or stucco, sometimes left natural grey or painted cream
• timber mouldings and battens to gable ends usually painted a dark colour
• other woodwork painted cream, brown or green
• brickwork often with tuck-pointing

• ceilings highly ornamented with elaborate cornices and ornate patterns
• marble fireplaces with inglenooks in very large houses
• elaborate wallpapers
• walls usually with friezes
• less ornate than Late Victorian

• ceilings sometimes divided into panels ornamented with plaster straps and shallow patterns with Art Nouveau motifs
• timber fireplaces
• rarely wallpapers
• painted plaster walls with picture rails, pressed metal or timber