Caroline Simpson Collection

Carriageway entrance of Ecclesbourne, Double Bay, Sydney / photographer unknown

[191?]

1 photoprint : sepia toned ; 15 x 19.5 cm.

Ecclesbourne (Double Bay, N.S.W.)
gardens
carriage loops
towers
garden beds
footscrapers

Ecclesbourne at 17 Ocean Avenue, Double Bay, Sydney, was built in the 1840s by a businessman named Thomas Whistler Smith (1824-1859) on land that was then part of the Glenrock Estate, Darling Point. The property was later owned by his brother Eustace Smith (1825-1872) who sold Ecclesbourne in 1857 to Sydney solicitor James Norton (1824-1906). Norton made extensive alterations to the house in the 1870s, including the addition of a tower which served as the entrance hall on the Ocean Avenue side of the house.

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; copy of original photograph in private collection.

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