Evatt House, Heritage house in Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia.
Evatt House is a Georgian Revival villa on Junction Road in Wahroonga with expansive gardens originally planted with native Australian trees. The property was expanded after 1986 with additional structures, including a clay tennis court on the western section of the grounds.
Architect Stuart Traill designed this residence in 1940 for Clive Raleigh Evatt Senior, a Labor politician from New South Wales and former Minister for Education. The house was built during a period when suburban architecture was embracing new stylistic directions.
The name Parklands refers to the grounds, where Clive and Marjorie Evatt kept the native vegetation instead of planting an English-style garden, an unusual choice for a Georgian Revival house of 1940. Marjorie Hannah Andreas Evatt, a lawyer, took part in shaping the design, as their daughters Elizabeth and Penelope recalled.
Evatt House is a privately owned residence at 69 Junction Road and is not open to the public, so the house and its grounds can only be seen from the street. The site lies in Wahroonga, a short distance from the railway station opened on the Hornsby to St Leonards line in 1890.
Clive Evatt's wife Marjorie took an active part in shaping the 1940 design, as their daughters Elizabeth and Penelope later recalled. The family chose to keep the existing native vegetation instead of laying out an English-style garden, a decision the source calls unusual and progressive for a Georgian Revival house of 1940.
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