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Haberfield Federation Arts and Crafts influences
Federation Arts and Crafts
– From Wikipedia
The Arts and Crafts style came out of a movement to get away from mass-production and rediscover the human touch and the hand-made.
The architectural style was widely used in Australia during the Federation period and was characterised by
Add to this the Arts and Crafts roof:
Windows are typically cottage style, with multiple small panes of glazing set in side-hung casements.
Haberfield developer Richard Stanton’s own Arts and Crafts House, The Bunyas: (1906 – designed by John Spencer-Stansfield)
1. Rough-cast walls
– http://www.freepedia.co.uk/DIRHomesPebbledash.php
Rough-Cast in Haberfield:
2.Shingles
The wooden Shingle style is an American architectural style made popular by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which disliked the highly ornamented patterns of Queen Anne architecture.
(Painted wooden) Shingles in Haberfield:
Roslare, 34 Ramsay Street heritage listing
Statement of significance:
The property was also occupied by the one family for most of its life.
Description
Arts and Crafts influences are also clear:
The hipped roof is slate, trimmed with terra cotta including crested ridges, and has exposed rafter feet. To one side a bay projects towards the street, with a roughcast base and an ample six-light bay window surmounted by a shingled gable having a decorative panel-and-batten apex.
The windows have casement sashes and bullnose sills. The chimneys are roughcast with brick decoration. The unusual verandah has a skillion roof which continues down from the main roof plane. The verandah has elegant paired brackets and paired posts supported on piers rising from inverted-arch balustrade bays, and a tiled floor.
3.Faceted Bay Windows
Faceted window: any window which has a number of ‘faces’, which are joined by silicon. For example, a bay window usually has three facets.
Faceted Bay Windows in Haberfield:
4. Stone bases
The Red House, in Bexleyheath, London , designed for Morris in 1859 by architect Philip Webb, exemplified the early Arts and Crafts style, with its well-proportioned solid forms, wide porches, steep roof, pointed window arches, brick fireplaces and wooden fittings. Webb rejected the grand classical style and based the design on British vernacular architecture expressing the texture of ordinary materials, such as stone and tiles, with an asymmetrical and quaint building composition.
Note that the bricks used in 1859 would have been hand-made, with mass-production starting in the 1880’s leading to a boom in brick housing.
5.Tall Chimneys
In English Arts and Crafts, asymmetry, dominant chimneys and high roof pitches with low eaves are the keys
Derrylyn, 16 Deakin Avenue, Haberfield, NSW 2045
Statement of significance:
The building is prominently sited on the corner of Dalhousie Street and Deakin Avenue, Haberfield. It retains many of its original features. (Heritage Council Branch Managers Report 29 July 1983)
Description
numerous tall roughcast chimneys.
Derrylyn was built in 1910.
An Interim Conservation Order was placed on Derrylyn on 11 December 1981 at the request of the vendor who was concerned that future owners of the property may propose internal and external changes to the house.
With the agreement of the new owner a Permanent Conservation Order was placed over the property on 2 December 1983.
In 1983 through the Heritage Assistance program funding assistance was provided to erect a new picket fence.
On 2 April 2000 the property was transferred to the State Heritage Register
6. A high pitched roof
Right: Thatch is used occasionally on new UK dwellings and demands a roof pitch of at least 45°, and more likely 50°, to allow the rain to flow off quickly and prevent ingress. This steep pitch is also an essential ingredient of cottage style.
from http://www.homebuilding.co.uk/design/design-guides/design-style/arts-crafts
7. Overhanging eaves
8. Windows and Doors
Dormer Windows
Feature Windows
Residence, Woodrow Vale Easton (C 1920); Waratah Rest Home (1941-61)
40 Dalhousie Street, Haberfield, NSW 2045
Statement of significance:
Window and Door Openings