Federation Fences

See also: Haberfield Fencing

• Victorian style houses were characterised by iron palisade or acorn-headed timber picket fences, while
• Federation style houses provided plainer flat-topped timber picket fences, or sometimes a combination of masonry and wrought iron

 

Australian Heritage Fence Styles:

Federation Queen Anne style house with late Victorian style picket fence

 

1850s	Gold rush economy	Colonial and Gothic	Simple pickets
1880s	Victorian land boom	Victorian Ornate	Pickets/rippleiron
1900s	Federation	Federation and Edwardian	Featured gates & caps
1910s	Edwardian era / Ist world war	Edwardian	Arts & crafts
1920s	Art Deco	Californian Bungalow	Woven wire
1930s	Great Depression	Garden City movement	Chain mesh
1940s	2nd world war the low brick fence	Late deco, double brick homes	The low brick fence

Table thanks to Dave English, Resurrection Gates and Fences

From: http://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/default/StrategicPlanningDocuments/Federation__Edwardian_Fencing_Guidelines.pdf

Closed Federation Fence

 

How to Install a Picket Fence By: Jefferson Kolle, This Old House magazine

Construction

In the most common construction, the pickets are mounted vertically on a pair of parallel stretchers (horizontal strips), one near the bottom and one near the top.

• These strips are attached to posts (upright sturdy poles made of timber or possibly metal) that are driven into the ground.
• The fence can be assembled from prefabricated sections, where the posts of each section are posted into the ground but
• the pickets or boards that make up the fence wall are not inserted into the ground.
• Federation style fences combine palings, lattice panels. and decorative finials.
• The fence is usually built as either 2.4 or 2.7 feet high.

 

Edwardian and Federation Fence detailing

The following excellent examples are all from

Heritage Fencing South Australia

Picket Fence Components from Heritage Fencing

Picket styles from Heritage Fencing S.A.