Miss Traill's House, Heritage house museum in Bathurst, Australia
Miss Traill's House is a Colonial Georgian former rectory designed by Henry Kitchen and built from 1845 for Reverend Thomas Sharpe at 321 Russell Street. The single-storey brick residence, later a clergy house and school, is now a house museum owned by the National Trust, holding Ida Traill's furniture, horse-racing memorabilia and artefacts from early Bathurst.
Reverend Thomas Sharpe, first Rector of All Saints' Cathedral, was granted the Russell Street allotments on 29 January 1845 and built his rectory there, a Colonial Georgian house designed by Henry Kitchen. The property later served as a clergy house and a girls' school called Wyoming Lodge. Ida Traill lived in the house from 1931 until 1976 and bequeathed it to the National Trust of Australia.
The house preserves memories of how wealthy residents lived in the 1800s through its collection of furniture, ceramics, and personal objects. The rooms show how people arranged their homes and spent their time with horses and social activities.
The house museum stands at 321 Russell Street, Bathurst, on the block granted to Reverend Thomas Sharpe in 1845; the National Trust of Australia (NSW) owns and runs it. It was entered on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 1 March 2002. The collection inside relates to Ida Traill's family, including her furniture and horse-racing memorabilia.
The garden holds rose varieties that have grown on the property for more than 100 years and represent a living connection to the house's past. These old plants are often older than many of the objects inside the house.
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