Don Bank, House museum in North Sydney, Australia

Don Bank is a single-story timber slab cottage with a symmetrical facade and four main rooms arranged around a central hallway. The small house shows the typical building style of homes from the middle of the 1800s in this area.

Edward Wollstonecraft took possession of Portion 323 in September 1819, and it was granted to him on 30 June 1825. Don Bank was built on part of that 212-hectare grant, but research based on survey plans and titles shows it was built no earlier than July 1853, not between 1820 and 1830 as once assumed. Solicitor William Carr bought the site in 1853, and the house was built as the intended residence of his widow Charlotte Carr, advertised for sale in November 1854 as a four-room home called St. Leonard's Cottage. The dining room, room 1 and kitchen wing were added between 1856 and 1858.

The house keeps its original name from the 1853-54 sale advertisement, when it was called St Leonard's Cottage after the North Shore suburb of St Leonards. Rooms 2 and 5 are lined with calico cloth hung during the 1980 restoration as an interpretive element, and the central hall still connects the front and rear verandahs.

Don Bank stands at 6 Napier Street, with its front facing Napier Street and a rear entrance from Oak Street; a public garden and path beside it link Napier Street to Wheeler Lane. Napier Street is one-way and leads east to the Pacific Highway, so approach on foot from the North Sydney CBD. The house is set back up a small slope behind a fenced garden.

The roof was re-shingled with she-oak (Casuarina), believed to be only the second reshingling since the post-1980 restoration. Inside, calico cloth lines the walls outside Rooms 2 and 5, hung as an interpretive element during the 1980 restoration. Rooms 2 to 4 in the central core are estimated to retain up to 80% of their original fabric.