Fernleigh Castle Explained

Fernleigh Castle
Alternate Names:Fernleigh
Status:Built
Building Type:Castle
mansion
Architectural Style:Victorian
Location:5 Fernleigh Gardens,, Sydney, New South Wales
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Location Country:Australia
Coordinates:-33.8681°N 151.2726°W
Destruction Date:-->
Client:Frank Bennett (1892)
Material:Sydney sandstone
cedar joinery
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Embedded:
Embed:yes
Designation1:RNE
Designation1 Offname:Fernleigh Castle, 5 Fernleigh Gdn, Rose Bay, NSW, Australia
Designation1 Date:21 March 1978
Designation1 Number:2495
Designation1 Free1name:Class
Designation1 Free1value:Historic
Designation2:NSWHD
Designation2 Offname:Fernleigh Castle - main building
Designation2 Type:Built
Designation2 Date:10 March 1995
Designation2 Number:Local register
Designation2 Free1name:Group/collection
Designation2 Free1value:Residential buildings (private)
Designation2 Free2name:Category
Designation2 Free2value:Mansion
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Fernleigh Castle is a historic house in the Sydney suburb of Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Completed in the Victorian architectural style, the house is listed on the (now defunct) Australian Register of the National Estate and the Woollahra local government heritage database.

History and description

Fernleigh Castle was built in 1892 on the site of a sandstone cottage built in 1874, and incorporates the original walls of that building. Castle-like in appearance, it is constructed of sandstone and features a square Norman-style tower, smaller towers with their own turrets, and castellated walls. Although it also includes wrought iron balconies similar to homes in Paddington. The house has thirty rooms and a number of stained-glass windows.[2] [3]

Heritage listing

One of the very few large Victorian mansions still intact in Sydney. A product of the 1890's boom, the structure is a highly decorated example of the stonemason's craft using pink to brown fine dressed sandstone, still in very good condition. The interiors of the main rooms are very decorative contained elaborate plaster ornamentation to walls, piers and archways. Much original cedar joinery remaining and fine crafts example in the main stair. Other notable items include large tiled fireplaces framed by finely carved mahogany mantels with marble pillars supports, intricate stained glass windows, large bedroom (35ft by 18ft) three feet deep porcelain bath in cedar and marble frame, figured of white zinc.

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Notes and References

  1. 16 November 2019.
  2. Heritage of Australia, p.134
  3. Web site: Heritage .