Glenbrook – 19 Cooper Street – Double Bay – NSW
Victorian villa (historic photograph) · Build date / architect / early owners not yet confirmed · Site now apartments (“Glamis”) — villa demolished (date unknown)
The live scrapbook pins a two-storey Victorian bay-and-verandah house to 19 Cooper Street, Double Bay, under the name Glenbrook. Cooper Street still runs through the village; number 19 today is known in agent copy as the Glamis apartment block. Between the sepia villa and the flat building lies a demolition story that archives have not yet handed us in dated form — so this draft refuses to invent one.
At a glance
- Name (live): “Glenbrook”
- Address (live): 19 Cooper Street, Double Bay NSW 2028 (live typo Sreeet)
- LGA: Woollahra
- Evidence in hand: historic exterior photograph (live); modern strata/agent identification of 19 Cooper Street as Glamis apartments
- Built / architect / first owner: Not established from consulted DoS / Heritage NSW / Trove / Woollahra searches this wave
- Fate: Historic villa does not stand; site redeveloped for apartments — demolition year unknown
- Disambiguation: ≠ Glenbrook, Blue Mountains (town, HCA, railway residence SHR)
Site & setting
Cooper Street, Double Bay — harbourside village streets between New South Head Road and the Cross Street / Guilfoyle Park pocket. Aboriginal Country: Gadigal / eastern harbour peoples — acknowledge at publish. Live photograph shows a sloping allotment, low street wall, cast-iron lamp, projecting bay with quoining, two-level verandah with striped blinds, and a secondary building to the side — classic late-Victorian Double Bay fabric, pending firm identification of the negative.
Timeline
- Late 19th / early 20th c. (undated) – Villa photographed as in live post — date of negative not proven.
- Name “Glenbrook” – Attached by live blog title; not independently verified against Sands/Trove for this street number in this research pass (flag for Sands Directory / rate-book follow-up).
- 20th c. redevelopment – Site becomes multi-unit Glamis at 19 Cooper Street (contemporary agent sources) — construction year of flats not fixed here.
- Live blog 2025-06 – Image stub with misspelt street.
Architecture & interiors
From the live photograph only: two-storey Victorian villa; projecting bay; quoining; hipped roof and chimneys; ground and upper verandahs; basement openings on the fall of the land; secondary structure to one side. No interior evidence. No architect attribution found.
People & anecdotes
None securely tied to this address under the Glenbrook name in sources consulted for this draft. Leave blank rather than guess Double Bay society names.
Image gallery guidance
- Keep live historic photograph; caption as “live scrapbook — Glenbrook, 19 Cooper Street (identification as per blog title).”
- Modern street view of Glamis / 19 Cooper Street for “what replaced it.”
- Pair with other documented Cooper Street / Double Bay villas only when separately sourced.
- Search SLNSW / Woollahra Local History for Cooper Street rate photos before asserting extra plates.
What stands today
The Victorian Glenbrook villa does not stand. 19 Cooper Street is an apartment address (Glamis in agent usage). Private flats — no house-museum access.
Sources & further reading
- Live post: https://historicsydneymansionsmanorshouses.blogspot.com/2025/06/glenbrook-19-cooper-sreeet-double-bay.html
- Contemporary agent/strata references to Glamis, 19 Cooper Street, Double Bay (site fate only — not historic proof)
- Research gaps to close before a richer rewrite: Woollahra Library local history / rate books; Sands Directories “Glenbrook” + Cooper Street; Trove auction notices; SLNSW pictorial catalogue
Related on this blog
- Other Double Bay / Woollahra demolished villas
- Do not cross-link Blue Mountains Glenbrook railway residence as the same house
Add historic photos with captions and credits from Image gallery guidance.
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