Ginahgulla, Historic house in Bellevue Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ginahgulla is a two-storey house in the Victorian Free Gothic style, standing on the south side of Ginahgulla Road in Bellevue Hill. Completed in 1858, it has pointed Gothic windows and gabled rooflines, and its gardens are listed with the house on the Woollahra heritage list.
John Fairfax, of the Fairfax newspaper family, built the house in 1858; it may have been designed by Edmund Blacket, an architect known mainly for Sydney churches. The Fairfax family kept it until 1945, when The Scots College bought it and turned it into a boarding house.
The house shows architectural tastes favored by wealthy Sydney residents in the Victorian era, with its Gothic design and grand proportions reflecting the owner's social standing.
The building operates today as a boarding facility for The Scots College students and is not typically open to the public. Visitors can view the exterior from Ginahgulla Road and appreciate the architectural features from the street.
The house may have been designed by Edmund Blacket, an architect better known for Sydney's churches; the attribution is uncertain. The Scots College, which bought the property in 1945, calls it "the house on the hill" because of its position above Ginahgulla Road in Bellevue Hill.
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