GBA Heritage was engaged to assist the architect, Coble Stephens Architects, and provide comment on proposed alterations and additions to this State Heritage Register (SHR) item, one of the largest country estates in the Southern Highlands, before its 2002 subdivision, and located just south of Bowral. It is a rare example of the British Queen Anne Arts and Crafts style and was directly copied from a pattern book of architecture. It is a finely crafted ‘Gentlemen’s’ residence from the early 1890s, with an impressive setting on the rise in the rolling landscape and surviving elements of the late Victorian garden.
Our advice for the proposed interior alterations was partly drawn from the 1995 Conservation Plan and its grading of significance. As is usual in heritage practice, the main alterations were proposed for the later area of the house where there was Little significance. Very little alteration was proposed to the original three-story section of the house of High significance, unless it was able to be demonstrated that it reinstaed of an original layout.
