AsTud' investment

From Australia's sentimental home of mock Tudor, Dalkeith, comes today's eyesore.

The owners are obviously on holiday, as the branch and leaves of a eucalypt tree has been allowed to violate the front of their otherwise exotically-inspired villa.

From its lofty position, along the Birdwood Parade escarpment, this mocker has a delightful view of the blue River Swan. The view back from the Swan, unfortunately, is not so enticing.

Mock a block

This week, I draw you attention to that most expensive of all Westralian locales - Dalkieth.

Chocked full of jumped-up Anglophiles, the suburb naturally has its fair share of Mock Tudor McMansions.

Dalkieth Plaza, built I would guess in the 1980s, shows us that forelock-tugging to the mother-country is still frustratingly prevalent down by the banks of the antipodean Swan.

Tudor fat

This structure on Stirling Highway runs a close second to Western Australia's most famous Mock Tudor, London Court in Perth's CBD.

Officially dubbed the Renkema Buildings [sic] in 1937 (and isn't it indeed renk [sic]), the insides of this Faux-Elizabethan have the honour of hosting the original Bibik Chan's - a Malaysian restaurant and Perth institution, which now has half-a-dozen outlets across the metro area.

The architecture's abysmal. But the Rendang is sublime.