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29-474: Lindfield may refer to: Lindfield, New South Wales , Australia Lindfield, West Sussex , United Kingdom Lindfield Rugby Club in NSW, Australia Bob Lindfield (1901–1959), Australian rugby player Craig Lindfield (born 1988), English footballer See also [ edit ] Linfield (disambiguation) Lingfield (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

58-507: A dormer window (or an attic vent designed to look like one) over the main portion of the house. Ideally, bungalows are horizontal in massing, and are integrated with the earth by use of local materials and transitional plantings. This helps create the signature look typically associated with the California bungalow. Bungalows commonly have wood shingle , horizontal siding or stucco exteriors, as well as brick or stone exterior chimneys and

87-462: A broad opening into a separate dining room . All common areas are on the first floor with cozy atmospheres. Though the ceilings are lower than in homes of Victorian architecture , they often feature redwood beams and are usually higher than in ranches and other homes built later. Attics are located under the sloping roof. The bungalow actually traces its origins to the Indian province of Bengal ,

116-522: A bungalow for himself and erected it at 555 Blair Ave, atop a hill in Piedmont, California , in Oakland, California , across the bay from San Francisco , in 1877–78. The bungalow influenced Bernard Maybeck , Willis Polk and other San Francisco architects, and Jack London , who rented Worcester's house from 1902 to 1903, called it a "bungalow with a capital 'B ' ". The bungalow became popular because it met

145-420: A much smaller area on its second floor, centered on the structure, and is thought to look like the cockpit of an early airplane . True bungalows do not include quarters for servants, and have a simple living room , entered directly from the front door, in place of parlors and sitting rooms , as well as a smaller kitchen . The focal point of the living room is the fireplace , and the living room often has

174-520: A partial-width front porch. Larger bungalows might have asymmetrical L-shaped porches. The porches were often enclosed at a later date, in response to increased street noise. A "California" bungalow (except in Australia, see below) is not made of brick, but in other bungalows, most notably in the Chicago area, this is commonplace due in large part to the weather. A variation called the " Airplane Bungalow " has

203-419: A short time. The majority of bungalows did include some elements of mass production; typically doors, windows, and built-in furnishings such as bookcases, desks, or folding beds were sourced from lumber yards or from catalogs. Bungalows can be found in the older neighborhoods of most American cities. In fact, they were so popular for a time that many cities have what is called a "Bungalow Belt" of homes built in

232-548: Is a separate suburb to the east, sharing the postcode of 2070. This suburb of 5.17 square kilometres contains residential housing of California bungalow and federation style , in double brick and tile construction. Australian native bushland in Garigal National Park and Lane Cove National Park borders the suburb. Lindfield was originally the home of the Kuringgai indigenous people. Europeans first became active in

261-521: Is also close by, in Killara . The University of Technology Sydney , Kuring-gai Campus, (formerly The William Balmain Teachers College and then The Kuring-gai College Of Advanced Education,) operated at a campus on Eton Road from 1971 to 2015. It offered courses in business, nursing and midwifery, education and travel. The site was then closed in 2015 while an extensive interior fitout was undertaken. It

290-537: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lindfield, New South Wales Lindfield is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales , Australia . It is 13 kilometres north-west of the Sydney Central Business District and is in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council . East Lindfield

319-580: Is mostly residential and its leafy neighbourhoods include a range of best preserved period-style detached houses. An attraction is the Seven Little Australians Park, a near bushland park, for which it received its name from a classic Australian children's novel. Lindfield railway station is on the North Shore railway line of the Sydney Trains network and is about 30 minutes by train from

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348-556: The Ashgrovian Queenslander (the idea being to protect against flooding, create a shaded area and to allow free movement of air in the hot climate). Key practitioners of the California bungalow style were Peddle and Thorp, Kenneth B. Milne, Alexander Stewart Jolly and Cedric Ballantyne. One of the outstanding examples was Jolly's Belvedere in the Sydney suburb of Cremorne . Belvedere is heritage-listed. The Californian bungalow

377-777: The Sydney central business district . The Pacific Highway is the main arterial road through Lindfield. Lindfield has a small commercial area on both sides of Lindfield railway station on the Pacific Highway and Lindfield Avenue. The former Commonwealth Bank is an art deco style building on the Pacific Highway. Lindfield Library is a branch of the Ku-ring-gai Municipal Library Network. There are two community halls: East Lindfield Community Hall at Crana Avenue and West Lindfield Community Hall at Moore Avenue. There are two tennis courts at Lindfield Community Centre (behind

406-1191: The " Dryden District ") in San Diego . Separate from the main building, The Beverly Hills Hotel has 23 garden bungalows containing guests rooms and suites. Examples of neighborhoods in other U.S. states include: the Avenues District in Salt Lake City ; Westwood Park, San Francisco ; Midtown Columbus, Georgia ; Virginia Highland and Candler Park , Atlanta ; Houston Heights in Houston ; Park Hill and Washington Park in Denver; Takoma Park, Maryland , and Takoma, Washington, D.C. ; Cherrydale and other neighborhoods in Arlington County, Virginia ; Del Ray in Alexandria, Virginia ; Historic Kenwood in St. Petersburg, Florida ; The Garden District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana ; and

435-734: The 1920s. These neighborhoods were often clustered along streetcar lines as they extended into the suburbs. Bungalows were built in smaller groups than is typical today, often one to three at a time. Examples of neighborhoods in Southern California with a high concentration of California bungalows include: Belmont Heights in Long Beach , the Wood Streets in Riverside , Bungalow Heaven , Highland Park in Los Angeles , and North Park (site of

464-641: The West University Neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona . The Californian bungalow style was particularly popular in Australia from 1913 onwards. This period coincided with the rise of the Hollywood film industry, which popularised American clothes, furniture, cars and houses, and also with the increased importation of U.S. architectural magazines into Australia, a society which previously had been heavily influenced by British domestic styles. "...the concept of

493-414: The area around the railway and more professionals moved into the area. The name "Lindfield" means a clearing in the lime forest, and derives from the name given by an early landowner, Francis List, to a cottage he built in the area in 1884. List likely named his cottage after Lindfield , Sussex , England . When a railway line came through the area in 1890s, the name of the property was used to identify

522-474: The area in around 1810, when the colonial government set up a timber gathering camp staffed by convicts. The first land was granted in 1815 as a settlement when farmers cultivated the area. By the 1840s, fruit growing and farming became the suburb's primary industries. Settlement began to increase in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Lindfield railway station opened in 1890, and Lindfield Post Office opened on 5 January 1895. Land values increased in

551-403: The bungalow as a cheap and attractive form of permanent suburban housing for the masses was stimulated by a variety of economic and social factors." Timber versions of the bungalow were a low cost solution to shortages in housing and the California designs suited the growing suburbs of the larger cities in southern Australia. Having a similar climate to that of California the designs also reflected

580-466: The catalogs at a low cost and in some cases, give them away for free. They contained pictures and drawings of artistic bungalows. The style was also connected with the desire to find relief from modern technology through a return to nature. A variety of firms offered precut homes, which were shipped by rail or ship and assembled on site. These were most common in locations without a strong existing construction industry, or for company towns, to be built in

609-693: The first half of the 1900s. Resurgent interest in the American Arts & Crafts or American Craftsman movement and the emergence of special-interest publications such as American Bungalow magazine have contributed to the bungalow's recent popularity. Rising house prices nationwide through the late 1990s and early 2000s as well as the central and convenient location of many bungalow-heavy urban neighborhoods have further fueled demand for these houses; as one example, some three-bedroom bungalows in San Diego can sell for $ 650,000 to $ 700,000, or more. The strength of

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638-679: The library) and a further two courts at Lindfield Park in Tryon Road. Lindfield has five places of worship: St Albans Anglican Church, Holy Family Catholic Church, Lindfield Uniting Church (with church buildings on Tryon Road and the Pacific Highway) and the North Shore Synagogue . Schools in the suburb comprise: Lindfield Public School , Lindfield East Public School , Newington College Preparatory School , Holy Family Catholic Primary School, and Masada College (K-6). Killara High School

667-520: The needs of changing times in which the lower middle class were moving from apartments to private houses in great numbers. Bungalows were modest, inexpensive and low-profile. Before World War I , a bungalow could be built for as little as $ 900 although the price rose to around $ 3,500 after the war. Bungalow designs were spread by the practice of building from mail-order plans available from illustrated catalogs, sometimes with alterations based on local practice or conditions. Contractors and builders would sell

696-552: The requirements of Australians who needed to cater for relatively warm summers and mild winters. The bungalow in Australia underwent regional adaptations, often being built in the local red brick in Melbourne and the local liver-coloured brick of Sydney , and in limestone in South Australia . The bungalow was also constructed out of timber – in tropical Queensland these were raised on high (2.4 m (8 ft)) stilts as

725-505: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lindfield . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lindfield&oldid=835395419 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

754-424: The station and neighbourhood. During the years after World War II the suburb experienced significant growth. Today Lindfield is a leafy suburb with a set of maintained real-estate residential houses in combined styles of California bungalow and Federation architecture . Lindfield has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Lindfield has a pleasant suburban English-like village atmosphere. The suburb

783-735: The word itself derived from the Hindi bangla or house in Bengali style. The native thatched roof huts were adapted by the British , who built bungalows as houses for administrators and as summer retreats. Refined and popularized in California , many books list the first California house dubbed a bungalow as the one designed by the San Francisco architect A. Page Brown in the early 1890s. However, Brown's close friend, Reverend Joseph Worcester (1836-1913), designed

812-607: Was also common in New Zealand during the latter 1910s and 1920s (e.g. Railway houses ), and is credited with starting a trend towards bungalows and influencing new local styles of bungalow in New Zealand during the early decades of the 20th century. The bungalow was so popular in California and Australia that very few houses were built in any other style during the 1920s. A range of other detailing influences, including Georgian Revival , Dutch Colonial Revival, Mission Revival , and Spanish Colonial Revival Styles became very popular in

841-771: Was reopened ahead of the 2019 school year as The Lindfield Learning Village, an unconventional K-12 public school. Commercial developments in Lindfield are situated along the Pacific Highway, Lindfield Shopping Village and nearby Tryon Road. Lindfield Arcade was demolished in 2016 in order to facilitate the construction of residential apartments. At the 2021 census , Lindfield recorded a population of 10,943. Of these: 33°46′36″S 151°10′16″E  /  33.77674°S 151.17119°E  / -33.77674; 151.17119 California bungalow Bungalows are 1- or 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story houses, with sloping roofs and eaves with unenclosed rafters , and typically feature

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