Identifying Period Styles

Roof

• Corrugated iron.
• Often have several single chimneys.

Verandah

• Bullnose corrugated iron, often painted in wide stripes.
• Decorative timber or cast-iron valances and often brackets under the eaves for extra decorative appeal.
• Slender timber or iron support columns.
• Verandah flooring tiled or timber: tiled floors often feature geometric patterns

Windows

• Typically double-hung timber framed sash windows. Generally located centrally around the front door and often have louvered shutters.
• Sash windows became more decorative as the period progressed. Stucco arches over sash windows and coloured glass.

Walls

• Either brick, stucco or weatherboard.
• Different coloured bricks were used for decorative effect including extra details around doors and windows in patterns such as diamonds.

Fence

• Timber picket or cast iron palisade
• Decorative tops were featured in later stage of period.

Colour Pallete

• Details: Indian Red, Deep Brunswick Green, Rich Red, Shell Pink
• Main Colours: Beige, Stoneware, Pale Stone, Salmon Pink

Roof

• Roofs are broken up by false gables and capped with decorative teracotta ridges and ornamentation.
• Teracotta tiles and sometimes corrugated iron.

Verandah

• Turned timber verandah columns are supplemented by elaborate decoration often influenced by Art Nouveau styles.

Windows

• Bay windows with shingles above. Leadlight window panes or coloured glass are featured over main windows.

Walls

• Red or dark brown bricks and often a mixture of both.
• Exposed rafters are visible under roof.
• Brickwork often finished with 'tuck pointing' - ridges of white mortar along brickwork.

Fence

• Low picket fences usually in white or cream.

Colour Pallete

• Details: Grey Green, Sky, Mid Brunswick Green, Dark Crimson
• Main Colours: Rich Red, Pearl Lustre, Manilla, Mistletoe, Dark Brown

Roof

• Hipped roofs with wide eaves, usually featuring a prominent front gable end.
• Teracotta tiles and sometimes painted corrugated iron.
• Roughcast rendered shingles, pebbledash or half timbered features usually situated over a bay window.

Verandah

• Usually a return L-shape. Homes frequently had one room projecting forward with return verandah attached to this.
• Valances with timber decorative posts and brackets. Fretwork was used for finer details.

Windows

• Grouped together in pairs or threes.
• Leadlight windows featured near doors.
• Sunshades supported by timber brackets over windows common on the north and west sides of the home.

Walls

• Either red brickwork or weatherboard square edged or bullnosed.
• Sometimes weatherboard replicates blocks of stonework.
• Decorative bands of render, usually in cream, often included.

Fence

• Cyclone fences made of woven wire with posts of timber or steel and tubular steel gates.

Colour Pallete

• Details: Grey Green, Sky, Mid Brunswick Green, Dark Crimson
• Main Colours: Rich Red, Pearl Lustre, Manilla, Mistletoe

Roof

• Broad simple roof, low pitched and usually gabled with wide spreading eaves to cover a large verandah. Often an attic is featured under the roof lit by long dormer windows.
• Roofs were typically clad with teracotta tiles or painted corrugated iron in red or green.
• Shingles or roughcast render were often featured on curbed facing gable ends.
• Chimneys frequently in roughcast render, were prominent.

Verandah

• Deep verandahs supported by chunky sloping masonry piers or sturdy timber posts.
• Balustrades commonly decorated with roughcast or pebbles.

Windows

• Double hung sash or casement.
• Window panes were small rectangle or diamond-shape often with leadlights in front rooms or in bay shaped projections. Stylistically influenced by Art Nouveau or Arts and Crafts.

Walls

• Red or brown brick with flush joints, weatherboard or roughcast render.
• Rustic effects were achieved by clinker bricks or pebbles.
• Brown or green stained wall-hung shingles or pebble roughcast helped decorate gable   ends.
• Timber walls were painted in light colours, with trims in dark green and brown.

Fence

• Crimped wire with looped tops, timber pickets or masonry to match verandah balustrades.

Colour Pallete

• Details: Pearl Lustre, Dark Brown, Traffic Green, Indian Red
• Main Colours: Cream, Sky, Mistletoe, Stoneware