Elaine – 550 New South Head Road – Double Bay / Point Piper edge – NSW

Elaine – 550 New South Head Road – Double Bay / Point Piper edge – NSW

1863 marine villa · Long Fairfax ownership (1891–2017) · Standing — private; locally listed; redevelopment pressure · Not SHR

Between Redleaf’s civic terraces and Fairwater’s Hunt/Manson brick, Elaine held the Fairfax publishing dynasty’s other Seven Shillings Beach seat for more than a century. Geoffrey Fairfax bought it in 1891; Vincent and Nancy made it a family compound; John B. Fairfax sold in 2017. It is locally heritage-listed, failed a State Heritage push in 2014, and by 2025 was again in the papers as a possible seniors-living precinct — report the pressure, invent nothing about the outcome.

At a glance

• Address: 550 New South Head Road Woollahra fast facts / LEP schedule: Double Bay; popular media: Point Piper (same shore as Fairwater)
• Built: 1863 for W.F. (William Francis) Norie (Woollahra Local history fast facts – E)
• Fairfax: Geoffrey Evan Fairfax purchase 1891 (£2,100 — Domain); internal transfer to Sir Vincent & Lady Nancy Fairfax 1936 (£19,000); John Brehmer Fairfax bulk of estate 1989 ($3m — Domain)
• Site: c.6,9007,000 m² sloping to Seven Shillings Beach; significant trees (Cook pine, Norfolk Island pine, Bunya, camphor laurel, Port Jackson fig — LEP 1995 schedule wording)
• Heritage: Woollahra local listing (house, gateposts/gate, gardens to foreshore, stoneworks, named trees, Seven Shillings Beach). Not on NSW SHR — Council resolved Jun 2014 to take no further state-listing action after Paul Davies assessment
• Neighbours: Fairwater (560 NSHR; SHR; Cannon-Brookes from 2018); Redleaf / Blackburn Gardens (Council)
• Fate / current use: Standing as of research date — private; sold 2017 to Scott Farquhar (~$71m reported); resold Oct 2024 (~$130m reported); 2025 preliminary SSD scoping for seniors living / healthcare — demolition undecided in public reporting (SMH/AFR/Domain). Verify status at publish

Site & setting

Cadigal harbour Country; Seven Shillings Beach foreshore between civic Redleaf and Fairfax/Hunt Fairwater. The estate still reads as one of the larger private holdings on this shore despite twentieth-century subdivision attempts (1990s six-lot subdivision; 2015 DA for four new mansions under Fairfax ownership — Domain). Mature araucarias and figs frame harbour views and the axis toward Redleaf’s eastern trees noted in Redleaf CMP photography (inventory cross-views).

Timeline

• 1863 – House built for W.F. Norie (Woollahra fast facts).
• 1891 – Geoffrey Evan Fairfax purchases (£2,100) — start of century-plus Fairfax tenure (Domain).
• 1936 – Title path to Sir Vincent Fairfax & Lady Nancy Fairfax (£19,000) (Domain).
• c.1950 – Remodelling under Vincent/Nancy after a Leslie Wilkinson garden-house scheme was judged too extravagant (Domain / Howard Tanner reporting) — soft.
• 1989 – John B. Fairfax acquires bulk of estate ($3m) (Domain).
• 1990s–2015 – Subdivision into multiple titles; developer-oriented DA history while Fairfax sought a sale (Domain).
• Jun 2014 – Woollahra Council receives Paul Davies heritage assessment; resolves no State Heritage listing action (Council minutes).
• 2017 – Sold to Scott Farquhar / Kim Jackson (~$71m then-record reporting) (Domain/SMH).
• 2018 – Neighbour Fairwater sold to Mike Cannon-Brookes (~$100m) — Atlassian-neighbour chapter already on Fairwater SHR history.
• Oct 2024 – Resold to investor consortium (~$130m reported record) (SMH/AFR).
• Sep 2025 – Preliminary scoping for state-significant seniors living / healthcare precinct lodged; owners representatives state no final decision on demolition vs adaptation (SMH/AFR/Weekly Source).
• Today – Locally listed marine villa under active planning pressure — check DA/SSD status before publishing “still intact” claims.

Architecture & interiors

Nineteenth-century marine villa core with substantial twentieth-century Fairfax-era alterations — precisely why the 2014 state assessment found the house below SHR threshold while still supporting local listing of house, gates, gardens and trees (Council / Domain). Published Domain walk-throughs note a double sitting room with leadlight, twin arches, bay window, plaster ceilings and Delft-tiled fireplace commanding garden views to the beach — cite as secondary description, not measured drawing. Do not invent a room-by-room 1863 schedule.

People & anecdotes

Geoffrey Fairfax planted the SMH dynasty on this beach; Vincent and Nancy raised the mid-century Fairfax household here; John B. Fairfax’s 2017 sale ended family occupancy after almost no Fairfax had lived in the house for nearly twenty years (Domain). The Atlassian chapter — Farquhar at Elaine, Cannon-Brookes at Fairwater — is already public record on Fairwater’s SHR history field. Whatever 2025–26 planning delivers, the scrapbook value is the Fairfax century and the Seven Shillings Beach villa cluster.

Image gallery guidance

1. Harbour elevation / Seven Shillings Beach clear “Elaine, not Fairwater” captions. 2. Gates and gateposts to New South Head Road. 3. Significant trees (Bunya / Cook pine / figs) — LEP list. 4. Historic Fairfax social photography — social history, not sales porn. 5. Neighbour context plate — Redleaf / Elaine / Fairwater along the shore. 6. Avoid unverified “before demolition” speculative montages.

What stands today

Elaine stood as a private, locally listed harbour estate at research date (Sep 2026 draft). No public access. Fate under SSD/seniors-living proposals was not settled in public sources — re-check planning status and fabric before publish. Pair with Fairwater draft and Redleaf Double Bay.

Sources & further reading

• Woollahra Municipal Council — Local history fast facts – E (Elaine): https://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/Library/Local-history/Local-history-fast-facts/Local-history-fast-facts-E
• Woollahra LEP heritage schedule wording (house, gates, gardens, trees, Seven Shillings Beach) — LEP 1995 Sch. 3 / successor LEP listings
• Woollahra Council minutes 23 Jun 2014 — Elaine state heritage assessment (Paul Davies); no further SHR action

Domain / SMH — 2017 Fairfax sale; Farquhar chapter; 2024 resale; 2025 seniors-living scoping (secondary for prices/fate)

Fairwater SHR #01381 (neighbour context): https://apps.environment.nsw.gov.au/dpcheritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5014213

Draft Fairwater-Point-Piper-BLOGGER-DRAFT.md (this workspace)

Related on this blog

• Fairwater Double Bay / Point Piper draft
• Redleaf Double Bay (Council) — this batch
• Ginahgulla / other Fairfax Bellevue Hill posts
• Point Piper estates overview on the blog

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Redleaf (Woollahra Council Chambers) – 536 New South Head Road – Double Bay – NSW

Redleaf (Woollahra Council Chambers) – 536 New South Head Road – Double Bay – NSW

*(Not Redleaf Wahroonga — different house, different s uburb, different century of Federation fabric)*

Victorian Italianate harbourside mansion · George Allen Mansfield 1863 · Standing — Woollahra Municipal Council Chambers + Blackburn Gardens / Redleaf Pool · Local heritage (LEP #212)

William Benjamin Walker’s Italianate seat on Seven Shillings Beach became the civic front door of Woollahra: Council chambers in the villa, library in St Brigid’s, formal Blackburn Gardens stepping to a tidal pool. Where almost every peer along this shore stayed private or fell to flats, Redleaf was reconsolidated for the public and that is why the mid-Victorian mansion, gates, Moreton Bay fig and Bunya still frame the Double Bay foreshore.

At a glance

• Address: 536 New South Head Road, Double Bay NSW 2028 (Woollahra Council Chambers)
• Traditional Custodians: Cadigal / Eora (inventory Aboriginal notes)
• Built: 1863 for William Benjamin Walker (lease endorsement: £2,000 expended on first-class building by 7 Nov 1863) (inventory)
• Architect: George Allen Mansfield (SMH tender Oct 1862 for villa at Double Bay; Woollahra fast facts). Inventory also notes possible J.F. Hilly flag
• Style: Mid-Victorian Italianate sandstone mansion with terraced Italianate grounds to the harbour
• Early occupants after Walker: H.C. Dangar (while altering Grantham); Hon. William Busby; Frederic Lassetter; later Dixson / Sir William Cooper / W.H. Mackay (inventory / fast facts)

Civic chapter: Woollahra Council purchase 1940; RAAF/WAAAF occupation 1942–46; Council Chambers from Aug 1947; St Brigid’s library from 1950s; Blackburn Gardens 1955; Redleaf Pool 1941 (opened by Premier McKell)

Heritage: Woollahra LEP #212 (23 May 2015) — house, interiors, gates, gateposts, Moreton Bay Fig, Bunya Pine (and related landscape). Not SHR

Fate / current use: Standing — Council chambers/offices; public gardens; Redleaf Pool; Allen Jack + Cottier / Design 5 conservation + underground offices 1999–2001

Site & setting

Lot 13 of Point Piper Estate on the ridge between the Double Bay arms, looking north between Clark Island and Bradley’s Head. Stone terraces, dry-stone walls, flights of steps and a hierarchy of formal upper lawn, steeper bank, and wilder foreshore scrub once structured the Italianate garden (Woore watercolours 1877; Bayliss c.1875 — inventory). St Brigid’s (1897) was built in the south-east corner under Lassetter ownership; 1912–13 split Redleaf from St Brigid’s; Council resumptions 1943–51 reunited the foreshore for public bathing and civic use (inventory). Neighbours historically include Gladswood/Glenyarrah, Elaine, and Fairwater along Seven Shillings Beach.

Timeline

• 1853–62 – Cooper trustees lease Lots 10/13; Dillon / Cheeke assignments; 26 Aug 1862 Lot 13 leased to W.B. Walker (inventory).
• Oct 1862 / 1863 – Mansfield tender; Walker occupies Redleaf by late 1863 (after temporary stay at neighbouring Seaford/Glenyarrah per Griffiths — inventory). Name Redleaf in Sands by 1871 (inventory).
• 1860s – Seven Shillings Beach tradition: Gurrah’s fishing rights bought for seven shillings by Mrs Walker (CMP anecdote on inventory).
• Oct 1872 – Lease assigned to Hon. William Busby for £7,000; Busby family chapter to 1891 (inventory).
• 1889–1911 – Occupancy then leasehold/freehold of retailer Frederic Lassetter; St Brigid’s built 1897; freehold from Coopers 1905 (inventory).
• 1912–13 – Subdivision: Redleaf to T.S. Dixson; St Brigid’s (with former stables) separate (inventory).
• 1918–39 W.H. Mackay ownership; dies at Redleaf Dec 1939 (inventory).
• 1940 – Woollahra Council purchases Redleaf to protect Seven Shillings Beach foreshore and build public bathing (inventory / fast facts).
• 29 Nov 1941 – Redleaf Pool opened by Premier W. McKell (inventory).
• Feb 1942 – Jul 1946 RAAF / WAAAF accommodation (inventory / fast facts).

11 Aug 1947 – First Council meeting at Redleaf (inventory).

1951 – Full resumption of St Brigids; title reconsolidated (inventory).

1955 – Blackburn Gardens opened; municipal library moves into St Brigid’s 1957 (inventory).

1960s–80s – Office additions (later partly reversed); pool controversies and restoration 1987–88 (inventory).

1999–2001 – Conservation of villa + new subterranean Council offices (Allen Jack + Cottier; Design 5; landscape Tom Sitta) (inventory).

Today – Civic harbour estate: chambers, gardens, pool, library.

Architecture & interiors

Dressed sandstone ashlar Italianate villa with quoins, bracketed eaves, slate roof; reconstructed verandahs to east/north/west after removal of 1960s office accretions (inventory). Original room arrangement substantially intact despite twentieth-century alterations; fine stonemasonry, plasterwork and joinery called out in significance statement (inventory). Bas-relief hall panels traditionally associated with Busby’s Italian imports (Griffiths via inventory). Service wings south in rendered brick; c.1910 first-floor junction visible (inventory). Landscape significance: mature figs and araucarias, remnant woody pear (Xylomelum pyriforme) near the pool bank, gates and gateposts (inventory).

People & anecdotes

William Benjamin Walker — “merchant prince,” Legislative Council 1863–67, founding commodore of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron; named the house after his parents’ English Redleaf (Wikipedia / fast facts). William Busby outgrew Edgecliffe House and bought the harbour terrace; Frederic Lassetter made it a retail dynasty seat and added St Brigid’s for the next generation. Civic punchline: Council bought a mansion to save a beach, then moved the town hall into the drawing rooms. Pool associations later include Olympic swimmer Murray Rose, coach Sam Herford, administrator Arthur Tunstall (significance statement).

Image gallery guidance

1. 1871 Illustrated Sydney News / Bayliss panoramas — Redleaf + Glenyarrah on the ridge. 2. Thomas Woore 1877 watercolours — terraces and steps (inventory). 3. North elevation / reconstructed verandah after 2000–01 works. 4. Main entry gates and sandstone piers. 5. Blackburn Gardens terraces to harbour. 6. Redleaf Pool opening / mid-century carnival scenes. 7. St Brigid’s / library — clear captions as 1897 sibling house on the estate.

What stands today

Redleaf stands as Woollahra Council Chambers. Blackburn Gardens and Redleaf Pool are public; chambers access follows Council/public-meeting rules — check current visitor arrangements before publishing hours. Pair with Gladswood, Elaine, and Fairwater. Do not confuse with Redleaf, Wahroonga.

Sources & further reading

• Heritage NSW inventory “Redleaf”—Woollahra Council Chambers… (DB 2711246; LEP #212): https://apps.environment.nsw.gov.au/dpcheritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=2711246
• Design 5, Redleaf Conservation Management Plan (May 2004) — cited on inventory
• Woollahra Municipal Council — Local history fast facts – R (Redleaf): https://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/Library/Local-history/Local-history-fast-facts/R
• Wikipedia — Redleaf; William Walker (NSW colonial politician) verify against inventory/fast facts
• Existing Wahroonga disambiguation draft: /workspace/Redleaf-Wahroonga-BLOGGER-DRAFT.md

Related on this blog

• Redleaf – Wahroonga — different house
• Gladswood House / Elaine / Fairwater — this batch / drafts
• Grantham Potts Point — H.C. Dangar temporary Redleaf link

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Gladswood House (Glenyarrah / Seaford) – 11 Gladswood Gardens – Double Bay – NSW

Gladswood House (Glenyarrah / Seaford) – 11 Gladswood Gardens Double Bay – NSW

Gothic Revival sandstone marine villa · William Munro c.1860–64 · Joseland interiors 1913 · Standing — apartments (SHR #00496)

On the point between the two arms of Double Bay, a perpendicular Gothic pile once commanded the ridge beside Italianate Redleaf. Samuel Deane Gordon’s Glenyarrah became flour-miller John Spencer Brunton’s Gladswood, then a guest house, then strata. The harbour relationship thinned with the 1927 subdivision, but Munro’s stone, Lyon & Cottier glass, and Joseland’s baronial joinery still read as one of Woollahra’s rare colonial-Gothic survivors.

At a glance

• Address: 11 Gladswood Gardens, Double Bay NSW 2028 (Woollahra)
• Other names: Glenyarrah; Seaford House (WHHS / early directories)
• Traditional Custodians: Cadigal / Eora (SHR Aboriginal notes for Double Bay)
• Land: Point Piper Estate (Piper 1820 → Cooper & Levy 1826 → Sir Daniel Cooper); 99-year lease to E.T. Beilby from 1 Oct 1856 (65 p.a.; £2,000 building covenant); lease to Hon. Samuel Deane Gordon MLC 8 Jan 1858 for £800 (SHR)
• Built: tenders from 1860; substantially complete by 1862; gate pillars Aug 1864 naming Glenyarrah (SHR)
• Architect: William Munro (tender notices); possibly J.F. Hilly (WHHS alternate); R.G. Howard Joseland (1913 refurbishment / dining–ballroom); J.A. Dobson (1938 western wing / multiple occupancy)
• Style: Picturesque / perpendicular Gothic Revival sandstone marine villa
• Heritage: NSW SHR #00496 (gazetted 2 Apr 1999; PCO from 22 Apr 1988); Register of the National Estate; Woollahra LEP
• Fate / current use: Standing — strata apartments (SP 58597); stone stables survive as residence at 21 Gladswood Gardens (SHR)

Site & setting

Cadigal harbour Country on the Double Bay point of the old Point Piper Estate. Original holding a little over 3 acres, entered from New South Head Road through stone gate pillars (late 1864); lodge (demolished), drive, fernery, stone pier and timber boat house once tied the house to the bay (Eric Bayliss c.1875 view cited on SHR). 1927 subdivision into fourteen allotments created Gladswood Gardens and cut the landmark curtilage; Brunton bought back Lot 5 (pier access) in 1935. Remnant retaining walls and pier sections survive mainly on neighbouring northern land (SHR). Nothing of the original landscaped grounds of Gladswood remains intact on the house lot (SHR).

Timeline

• 1820 / 1826 – Piper grant; Cooper & Levy acquire Point Piper Estate (SHR).
• 1 Oct 1856 / May 1857 – Beilby 99-year lease (3 a. 3 r. 39 p.); building covenant £2,000 within eight years (SHR).
• 8 Jan 1858 – Lease to Samuel Deane Gordon for £800 (SHR).
• 1860–62 – Munro tenders (joinery, painting, masons/carpenters); house in course of erection (SHR).
• Aug 1864 – Tenders for gate pillars at Glenyarrah, Double Bay (SHR). Name often glossed “valley of the gums” (Griffiths via SHR).
• c.1863–64 – William Walker rated / temporary occupation while neighbouring Redleaf built (Griffiths tradition on SHR) — soft.
• c.1875 – Lyon & Cottier stained glass (Flora/Pomona; Gordon monogram & motto in deo fiducia est mia) (SHR).
• 1882 – Gordon dies; daughter Jessie Maria Gordon; sub-let F.B. Lark 188385 (SHR).
• 1885–1913 – Thomas Hussey Kelly Sr. (wool-broker) lease then freehold May 1901; son Thomas Herbert Kelly occupies; foreshore strip bought 1909 (SHR).
• 29 Dec 1913 – Sold to John Spencer Brunton (Brunton & Co. flour); renamed Gladswood after Berwickshire seat; Joseland works (£3,800 permit 24 Nov 1913) dining/ballroom wing, baronial interiors (SHR).
• 1927–28 – Sold to Maas estate agents for subdivision; Brunton re-purchases dwelling; Gladswood Gardens locality appears (SHR).
• 1937–39 Brunton dies; sons sell to builder F.L. Perini; Dobson western wing for multiple occupancy; guest-house lease to Gwendoline Jean Von Tidermann (SHR).
• 1951–88 – Guest house / private hotel under successive owners (SHR).
• c.1990 – Coronet Investments apartments west of house (Domain note on SHR).
• 2 Apr 1999 – SHR listing.
• Today – Strata apartments; restored fabric noted by WHHS (SHR citations).

Architecture & interiors

Two-storey sandstone Gothic asymmetrical harbour-side plan at variance with textbook pointed-Gothic axial types (SHR). Northern verandah with stone pillars and timber Gothic arches substantially in 1862 form; Joseland tessellated tiles and lanterns later (SHR). Entry vestibule Lyon & Cottier glass; Brunton carved Brunton / Gladswood” in flagging under the mat (SHR). 1913 Joseland dining room/ballroom: ornamental plaster ceilings, carved timber fireplace, oak sideboard with stained-glass Victoria/NSW arms; study with embossed copper three-link cable” Brunton ancestry motifs and motto carving (SHR). 1938 western wing (Dobson) judged of little significance on CMP — modern castellated Gothic at odds with picturesque original (SHR). First floor heavily altered by hotel bathrooms and partitions (SHR).

People & anecdotes

Samuel Deane Gordon — letter-carrier turned wine merchant, MLC, St Andrew’s College associate with Munro; Horticultural/Agricultural Society links may explain Flora/Pomona glass (SHR). William Walker next door at Redleaf — the Double Bay Italianate/Gothic twin skyline of the 1870s Bayliss panoramas. T.H. Kelly freehold and foreshore purchase locked the marine villa to the bay before subdivision. John Spencer Brunton and Howard Joseland remade the interiors as a Scottish-baronial statement; Joseland’s daughter later married Brunton’s son (SHR). Guest-house decades kept the shell standing when peers fell.

Image gallery guidance

1. c.1875 Eric Bayliss / harbour panoramas — Gothic Gladswood + Italianate Redleaf on the ridge (SHR / SLNSW). 2. Northern Gothic verandah — stone pillars, timber arches. 3. Lyon & Cottier vestibule / stair glass — Gordon monogram. 4. Joseland dining/ballroom fireplace & plaster 1913 craftsmanship. 5. Brunton carving under doormat — name change in stone. 6. Stables at 21 Gladswood Gardens — surviving service building. 7. 1927 subdivision auction notice — estate cut to building line (SHR illus.).

What stands today

Gladswood stands as private strata apartments at 11 Gladswood Gardens. Admire from Gladswood Gardens and distant harbour views; do not enter private grounds. Pair with neighbouring Redleaf (Woollahra Council Chambers) and Fairwater / Elaine along Seven Shillings Beach.

Sources & further reading

• NSW SHR — Gladswood House (#00496, DB 5045709): https://apps.environment.nsw.gov.au/dpcheritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5045709
• McGauran Soon Pty Ltd, Conservation Study / Conservation Plan, Gladswood House (1994 / 2003) cited on SHR
• Woollahra History & Heritage Society — Gladswood / Gladswood Gardens notes (2010, 2013) cited on SHR
• Register of the National Estate listing (21 Mar 1978) referenced on SHR
• Wikipedia — Gladswood House (portal only; verify against SHR)
• Trove — search Glenyarrah Double Bay; Gladswood Brunton; Munro architect Double Bay

Related on this blog

• Redleaf Double Bay (Woollahra Council) — this batch
• Fairwater / Elaine Seven Shillings Beach drafts
• Lindesay / Carthona / Swifts — eastern Gothic peers
• Redleaf Wahroonga — different house (Joseland Federation villa)

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Glenbrook – 19 Cooper Street – Double Bay – NSW

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

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