Winmarleigh Lodge and Stables

Winmarleigh Lodge and Stables, 6 Morris Avenue, Taroona TAS 7053

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Winmarleigh Lodge and Stables, 6 Morris Avenue, Taroona TAS 7053

Built in 1888 "Winmarleigh Lodge and Stables" are steeped in colonial history and represent a stunning example of Federation, Queen Anne style architecture.

• Originally forming part of the iconic Taroona residence "Winmarleigh" the building was completed prior to the main residence and is constructed of solid brick with sandstone quoins, lintels and sills.

Winmarleigh Lodge and Stables

History
In 1885, a successful stock broker named Henry Bayley purchased 23 acres of land first allocated in 1813 and commissioned construction of the iconic Taroona gentleman’s residence ‘Winmarleigh’ and the striking ‘Winmarleigh Lodge & Stables’ building.

Winmarleigh Lodge and Stables

Designed by Tasmanian architect George Fagg (The chancel and chapel of St David's Cathedral) these buildings were constructed by owner/builder H.W. Stabb in 1893 using brick (and sandstone quarried on the site?).

• Completed before the main residence in 1888 of solid brick, the building was generously dressed with sandstone quoins, lintels and sills to add enduring character.
  

  The building is dressed with sandstone quoins, lintels and sills

• Sir John Demetrius Morris (1902-1956), judge and university chancellor, was raised to the Supreme Court bench in July (1939?) as acting chief justice. His appointment was confirmed by (Sir) Robert Cosgrove in April 1940.
• Socially established (which pleased him and his wife greatly), he bought the spacious home, Winmarleigh (in 1940?).

The classic ‘Winmarleigh Lodge & Stables’ building is a two-storey Federation, Queen Anne style statement.

• The upper floor features semi attic spaces and half timbered gable ends with dormer windows. A prominent chimney is decorated with brick corbels and the magnificent roof of Welsh slate has a louvred turret with lead roof and weather cock adornment as a finishing touch.

‘Wimarleigh Lodge’ has had extensive renovations and improvements to now comprise a 365M2 gracious home in magnificent condition set on 941M2 of land and with easy care gardens.

• Rooms which once accommodated gentleman's carriage, horses and tack now form part of a stunning and gracious family home.
• The carriage house has become a dining room, the tack room an office or fourth bedroom and the loft a stunning master bedroom with water views from french doors opening onto 2 balconies, plus a walk through dressing room and large bathroom.
• The stables are transformed as a spacious and graceful salon with classic baltic pine ceilings, opening onto the gardens.

‘Winmarleigh Lodge & Stables

The accommodation is substantial and offers: entry foyer, 3 bedrooms 2 of which have built ins, 2 bathrooms, magnificent master suite which includes walk through dressing room, en-suite, sitting area and delightful river views from two separate balconies.

• The 4 living areas are all exceedingly spacious with a number opening to the delightful grounds, Including:
  formal dining room, formal lounge room, conservatory and huge salon with classic Baltic Pine ceiling,

  Baltic Pine ceiling

• These offer a great venue for both entertaining and casual relaxation. The kitchen is in keeping with the ambience of the home being large and an ideal place for both informal catch ups and breakfast.
• The grounds are beautifully landscaped utilising both sandstone and brick they surround and enhance the home to perfection.
  

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• Winmarleigh, 55-57 Morris Av, Taroona, TAS, Australia
• http://www.domain.com.au/6-morris-avenue-taroona-tas-7053-2012297802
• http://www.homehound.com.au/listing/withdrawn/tas/tasmania/hobart-southern/taroona-hobart-southern/6-morris-avenue-taroona-tas-7053/
• http://www.millionplus.com.au/property/residential/6-morris-avenue-taroona/1784746
• http://australia.trovit.com/property/listing/6-morris-avenue-taroona-tas.6f1b1-c71X1y

High Peak, Neika

High Peak, Neika, Hobart, Tasmania

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• See also page Architect George Fagg
• See also page Edwardian Heritage Gardens
  
• From the Northern Architecture post High Peak Tue, 22 Mar 2016 | Country Houses
  

‘High Peak’ is the home of the Grant family at Neika, about a ten minute drive from Fern Tree towards the Huon.

• ‘High Peak’ at Neika on the slopes of Mt Wellington is an 1891 Queen Anne style house.
• The extensive garden was started soon after the house was completed, its early establishment evidenced by huge old conifers on the drive and many other large old trees and shrubs.

'High Peak', a Queen Anne Tudor style house on the slopes of Mt Wellington, was designed by George Fagg in the late 1800s as a summer retreat for Charles Grant and his family.

‘High Peak’ at Neika on the slopes of Mt Wellington is an 1891 Queen Anne style house. The extensive garden was started soon after the house was completed, its early establishment evidenced by huge old conifers on the drive and many other large old trees and shrubs.

• Situated high on the slopes of the spectacular Mount Wellington, there is a sense of isolation in this subalpine environment of forest and pristine creeks, and this is what made High Peak such a perfect summer retreat for generations of the Grant family from the late 1800s.
• Neika is about thirteen kilometres from Hobart along the winding old Huon Highway that was once the main thoroughfare between Hobart and the thriving Huon Valley apple-growing district.

'High Peak', Neika, Tasmania; Thwaites, Jack; 28 September 1971

Staircase at 'High Peak', Neika, Hobart, Tasmania

Charles Henry Grant, described as 'pre-eminently a money making machine and successful speculator', bought twenty-three acres of land here in 1888, and in 1891 he engaged prominent architect George Fagg to design him a chalet for his family's summer residence.

• Fagg remains highly regarded for his work on church buildings, including the chancel and chapel of Hobart's St David's Cathedral. The mountain chalet he designed is a grand, two-storey Victorian Tudor-style building, with an asymmetrical roof featuring gables of different sizes with battened ends.

The exterior woodwork is of rare King Billy pine— the trees were cleared on site—the windowsills are of Huon pine, the lower floor was built of rubble stone collected on the property, and the upper storey features stucco over timber lathes and wire mesh.

• The home, one of only a few heritage Tudor-style buildings in Tasmania, has a grand formal entrance hall, dining and drawing rooms, children's playroom with separate entrance, a large kitchen, butler's pantry, seven bedrooms, servants' quarters, and a more recently built conservatory/sunroom living area.
• From the upstairs balcony, the views down over Kingston and the Derwent River are perhaps only surpassed by those from the Mount Wellington summit.

A photograph of High Peak,Neika, Tasmania, taken in 1898

Exquisite stained-glass windows brought out from Belgium and featuring rare cranberry glass roundels adorn the front door. The home is decorated with Jacobean-style English oak furniture that was hand-carved in France especially for this summer home.

• The house and tennis court at High Peak sit at the bottom of highly significant gardens, which have thrived in annual rainfall of over a metre (twice that of Hobart) and rich volcanic soil.
• Some of its rare species include monkey puzzle trees, or Araucaria araucana, native to the lower slopes of the Chilean Andes and so named because they would puzzle (as much as severely injure) any monkey that tried to climb them. It takes about eighty years before the monkey puzzle trees even produce seeds.
• Those in the garden of High Peak were bought by Charles Henry at great expense about 130 years ago, and it is from High Peak that the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens has recently received a monkey puzzle seedling.
• There are also sequoia trees or giant American redwoods, yew (which can live for thousands of years), other araucarias and conifers, yellow holly, spruce, cedar, Norfolk pine and the common macrocarpa pine.

The formal gardens are laid out with extensive English box and pittosporum hedges, hydrangeas, and the Grants stopped counting the different rhododendrons at fifty-two. Thanks to the possums, the roses have to be kept in a separate area under protective nets but, nevertheless, springtime ushers in a carpet of flowers.

Exquisite stained-glass windows brought out from Belgium and featuring rare cranberry glass roundels

The Duke and Duchess of York were entertained at High Peak in 1901, as were departing Antarctic expeditioners, and in 1902 High Peak hosted a garden party as part of the Australian Science Congress.

• Charles Henry Grant, a brilliant mathematician and engineer, came to Tasmania in 1872 to oversee construction of the Hobart to Launceston rail line. After the first train travelled the route in 1876, Grant pursued a range of business interests; some of his many directorships included Cascade Brewery, Hobart Gas and the Hobart Coffee Palace.
• He was returned unopposed twice as a Legislative Council member for Hobart, and was the driving force behind the Hobart Electric Tramway company.
• Such was the esteem in which C.H. Grant was held that when he died in 1902, flags on all public buildings in Hobart were flown at half-mast, and in 1914 the locality of Granton was named in his honour.

	Verandah at 'High Peak', Neika, Hobart, Tasmania
Grandfather clock in 'High Peak', Neika, Tasmania	The home is decorated with Jacobean-style English oak furniture that was hand-carved in France especially for this summer home.

His son, Charles William Grant, inherited High Peak in 1912 along with the family tradition of playing a prominent role in public life. In addition to serving as a state and federal politician, C.W. Grant was foundation chairman of the Hobart Bridge Company, which built the first pontoon bridge connecting the eastern and western shores of Hobart in 1943. He was also chairman of Cascade Brewery, had involvement in Hobart's first crematorium and was a director of Davies Bros Ltd, publisher of the Hobart Mercury newspaper.

Wooden furniture, 'High Peak', Neika, Tasmania
Walnut side table in 'High Peak', Neika, Hobart	Mantel in Sitting Room, 'High Peak', Neika

In the 1950s, C.W.'s son, Charles Henry, his wife, Gwen, and their three young boys decided to move from Hobart and make High Peak their permanent home, prompting the farewell party from their Hobart friends. Their son Jim and his wife, Annabelle, live here today.

• High Peak was lucky to survive the Black Tuesday bushfires that swept through southern Tasmania in 1967, claiming sixty-two lives. The fires came so close to the home that all the trees just below the formal garden were lost, and a man had to spend the entire day on the roof, putting out spot fires as the sparks landed.

Jim Grant leading a group through to the garden

The sequoia tree in the grounds of High Peak

When High Peak was re-roofed in 2003, the Grants discovered that the whole length of a barge-board on a northern gable of the house was charred through, so close did it come to being another casualty of one of Australia's worst disasters.

• Re-roofing is just one of the many updates that have occurred at High Peak since Jim and Annabelle moved here ten years ago from the property they named Off Peak, just down the hill. They repainted High Peak, laid new carpet, added a conservatory-style living area, renovated the laundry and bathrooms and have spent hours sorting through the heritage stored in some of the old cupboards.
• A clean-out of the linen cupboard uncovered several elegant maids' pinafores, cuffs and hats. In a small brown paper bag lying among old toothbrushes used for cleaning the silver was a stunning ivory silk presentation dress, with intricate bugle beading; it is thought Jim's grandmother probably wore it when she was presented to the royal court in England.

One of the biggest challenges is keeping the house warm. Jim is experimenting with double glazing and is so impressed with the initial results that plans are afoot to double glaze everything, even the fine stained-glass windows, to ensure that this grand old summer home continues to have a bright future, year-round.

Architect George Fagg

Tasmanian Architect George Fagg

Architect of many Churches, in Hobart (eg Baptist Church) and in other towns of Tasmania, and of High Peak, Neika
Proficient Architect of the 'Queen Anne' style, also renowned for Federation Extensions to BishopsCourt, Hobart

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Table of Contents

Tasmanian Architect George Fagg

George Fagg, Architect, Elizabeth St., Hobart (1848 - 1897)

Detailed chronology of George Fagg's Tasmanian Architecture

1. Baptist Tabernacle in Elizabeth St., Hobart (1886-1889)

2. St. George's Church &** **Anglican Bishop's house (1888)

3. St. Mary’s Cathedral, bell tower** **(1888)

4. Cottage Hospital at Campbell -Town (1889)

5. Winmarleigh, Tarooma**; **(1889-1892)

and the classic ‘Winmarleigh Lodge & Stables’ building,

6. Bishops Court, Hobart (1889)

7. Parattah Hotel, Oatlands (1889)

8. Theatre Royal (1890)

9. Murray Street Hobart, Shops for A.P. Miller and Son, Chemists (1890)

1891 Tenders Called:

10. High Peak, Neika (1891-1892)

See the page: High Peak, Neika

11. Magdalen Home and Convent of the Good Shepherd (1892)

12. St Clements Church, Kingston (1894)

13. Port Arthur (Carnarvon) - restoration and alteration to Town Hall buildings (George Fagg)(1895)

The Asylum, Port Arthur

14. St David's Cathedral (1896)

17. St. Joseph's Church (1896)

A Buggy Accident (1897)

19. Baptist Tabernacle** church in Clarence Street, Perth, Tasmania. **(P.M.,1899)

Obituary - George Fagg

'Boom' (Queen Anne) Architecture of George Fagg

• Related: Queen Anne, Gothic Queen Anne style
• NOT the Qld George Fagg, NOT William George Fagg, his son (see below)

Tasmanian International Exhibition, Launceston 1891/92

George Fagg, Architect, Elizabeth St., Hobart (1848 - 1897)

• British architect George Fagg M.S.A. arrived in Tasmania in 1885 and died at Claremont, 16 December 1897.
  See death notice in the Mercury Hobart December 17th 1897, p. 1. (reproduced below)
• George Fagg practised as an architect in his office in London and in 1885 left with his son for Tasmania where they practised in Hobart for about ten years.

• George Fagg won the Tasmanian Exhibition Medal in 1891 for Architectural Drawings
  • In Tasmania, a series of arts and industrial exhibitions led up to international exhibitions held in Launceston in 1891/92 and Hobart in 1894/95.
  • The Tasmanian Exhibition, staged in Launceston over four months in the summer of 1891-1892, was the biggest event ever to be held in Launceston, attracting some 262,059 visitors.
  • "The exhibition had effectually removed the slur cast upon Tasmania by people who called it Sleepy Hollow, for it had shown that its people could do as well as any others, perhaps better." - p 16.
• He also conducted a major renovation of Theatre Royal in 1890.
  See tender notice: Geo. Fagg, Hobart. Tenderers listed for alterations to Theatre Royal, Hobart, in the Australasian Builder and Contractor's News 24.5.1890.
  • Father of William George Fagg, an architect who worked in South Africa:
  • William George Fagg was a partner in a well-known Cape Town firm, BLACK & FAGG, Fagg was active as an architect in Cape Town from about 1895 until 1938.
  • He was the son of a British architect, George Fagg, MSA, and was probably born in Britain where he was educated at the Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon, Surrey.
  • He trained as an architect in his father's office in London and in 1885 left with his father for Tasmania where they practised in Hobart for about ten years. George Fagg died in 1897, having won the Tasmanian Exhibition Medal in 1891 for Architectural Drawings 'most of which were my work' (W Fagg's comment in his LRIBA nom papers).
  • In the papers he stated which jobs were his 'work entirely' and listed a number of buildings he designed in Tasmania. After the death of his father, Fagg left Tasmania for South Africa in 1897 to work for William BLACK of Cape Town, who himself had come to South Africa from Australia in 1893."

Detailed chronology of George Fagg's Tasmanian Architecture

1. Baptist Tabernacle in Elizabeth St., Hobart (1886-1889)

Baptist Tabernacle in Elizabeth St., Hobart

'In the late 1860s the religious devotion and commitment of Perth graziers, William Gibson Senior and his wife Mary Ann, to the London Baptist preacher, the Rev. Charles Spurgeon, became the catalyst for the resurgence of Baptist belief and life in Tasmania.
They became the prime financial benefactors to a Baptist new beginning in Tasmania, including the work in Hobart. Their staggering wealth gained from their highly sought after world famous Scone Merino stock paid for the passages of the Baptist pastors from Spurgeon’s College who had accepted the offer to minister in the colony.' Read more: On The Convict Trail: Hobart Baptist Church

• George Fagg, M.S.A., Architect, 2 Lord's Buildings, Elizabeth St., Hobart, calls tenders for the erection of the new baptist Tabernacle in Elizabeth St., Hobart.
  Launceston Examiner 24.11.1886
• The contract to erect the edifice was awarded to the contractors, Stabb Brothers. The foundation stone was laid on 5 October 1887, in the presence of about 300 people.
• A bottle was placed underneath the stone containing a copy of the “Day Star”, “The Mercury” and “Tasmanian News”, and a parchment scroll.
• The Tabernacle was opened for worship on 20 January 1889 with Rev. McCullough still the pastor of the church.
• Read more: Hobart Baptist Church; On the Convict Trail: Hobart Baptist Church

2. St. George's Church & Anglican Bishop's house (1888)

• The Launceston Examiner reports that Fagg has examined the Anglican Bishop's house and said it would cost at least 1000 pounds to repair. Launceston Examiner 3.5.1888
• George Fagg has given his opinion that the fracture in the keystone will not affect the stability of St. George's Church. R. Huchson concurred.
  Launceston Examiner 16.10.1888

3. St. Mary’s Cathedral, bell tower (1888)

(Tasmanian News (Hobart, Tas. : 1883 - 1911: Mon 15 Oct 1888 Page 3)

4. Cottage Hospital at Campbell -Town (1889)

17.10.1888: Fagg calls tenders for the erection of a hospital at Campbell Town. His address: 2 Lord's Place, Elizabeth St., Hobart.

• Launceston Examiner 17.10.1888:

Original Campbell Town Hospital. Campbell Town Tasmania. DSC03775

Architect- (Mr. George Fagg), contractor (Mr. James Dunn), clerk of works (Mr. Dalgleiah)
The Tasmanian (Launceston, Tas. : 1881 - 1895) Sat 23 Mar 1889 Page 25 CAMPBELL TOWN HOSPITAL

• Read more: On the Convict Trail: Campbell Town

Winmarleigh Lodge and Stables, 6 Morris Avenue, Taroona TAS 7053

5. Winmarleigh, Tarooma; (1889-1892)

and the classic ‘Winmarleigh Lodge & Stables’ building,

a two-storey Federation, Queen Anne style statement.

• Fagg designed Winmarleigh in Taroona for H.W. Bayley, a Hobart stockbroker.
• It was built of stone in 1892 and "is a magnificent example of the fully developed late (Queen Anne or 'Boom') Victorian colonial 'extravaganza' style of residential building."
• Illus. Kingborough Council, National Estate Study Municipality of Kingborough, 1976, pp 23-24

"Breathtaking" Winmarleigh. Taroona

Winmarleigh

• "Even today, its interior is little changed from the original design."
  • Illus. J.N.D. Harrison, The National Trust in Tasmania, Cassell Australia, pp 215-17
  • The upper floor features semi attic spaces and half timbered gable ends with dormer windows. A prominent chimney is decorated with brick corbels and the magnificent roof of Welsh slate has a louvred turret with lead roof and weather cock adornment as a finishing touch.
  • Winmarleigh, 55-57 Morris Av, Taroona, TAS, Australia - Listed on the Register of the National Estate
    Read more at Property Observer

6. Bishops Court, Hobart (1889)

• Bishopscourt has been until recently the home of the Anglican Bishop of Hobart for over 100 years. The early part of the main house was designed by Henry Hunter, and the massive Federation extension is by George Fagg.
• Included as part of the Fagg designed works was a separate brick schoolhouse near the rear entry. It was the beginning of Collegiate School, and one of its earliest pupils was ‘Monty’, Field Marshall Montgomery, of El-Alamein fame, who lived in the house from 1889 to 1897, when his father Henry was Bishop of Tasmania. More at Wikipedia.
• The property now belongs to Dermot and Rebecca Crean, and it is now their family home
• Website: http://www.bishopsquarters.com.au/
  See Airbnb listings: https://www.airbnb.com.au/rooms/971545 - https://www.airbnb.com.au/rooms/906304

Heritage listed Bishopscourt residence, Hobart c.1836

Bishops Court, Federation Extension Hobart (1889)

7. Parattah Hotel, Oatlands (1889)

Parattah Hotel, built in 1889

The area is home to about 100 families, and contains many historic buildings, such as a farmhouse which was once home to Hudson Fysh, one of the founders of Qantas, and a historic railway station.

Parattah is a small township in Tasmania, located approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) southeast of the town of Oatlands.

At the 2011 census, Parattah had a population of 360.[1]

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• The main street contains a number of attractive dwellings dating from the town's heyday, some of which are currently undergoing restoration.
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• The village retains the original general store, the impressive Tudor style 'Parattah Hotel' and a number of historic churches.

• The Parattah Hotel was built by W. Cheverton to plans by George Fagg for the Parattah Hotel Company.
• Illus. Nat. Trust News, No. 85, Oct. 1983, p.5

8. Theatre Royal (1890)

Theatre Royal, Hobart

Theatre Royal, Hobart

• He conducted a major renovation of Theatre Royal in 1890.
• See tender notice: Geo. Flagg, Hobart. Tenderers listed for alterations to Theatre Royal, Hobart,
• in the Australasian Builder and Contractor's News 24.5.1890.
  

  Collection of architectural drawing relating to the Theatre Royal Hobart Tasmania.

9. Murray Street Hobart, Shops for A.P. Miller and Son, Chemists (1890)

Miller's Corner Date 1904.

SENSATIONAL GAS EXPLOSION AT HOBART. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ) HOBART, JUNE 17, 1891 The coronial enquiry into the cause of the fire at Miller's buildings was continued today. George Fagg, architect, estimated the damage done at £2700. A P. Miller, owner of the premises, said the fittings had been put up under his own direction, and the damage done was covered by insurance. William M-Alister, practical gasfitter, said he had, by request, examined the chandelier shortly after the explosion, and found that it was short of water. The defects in the lamp were caused in his opinion through negligence or ignorance on the part of the fitter. Daily Telegraph (Launceston, Tas.) Thu 18 Jun 1891

Architectural drawing prepared by the architect George Fagg.A. P. Miller's Drug Establishment

Architectural drawing prepared by the architect George Fagg.A. P. Miller's Drug Establishment photographed by Anson Brothers, Hobart.

• Miller's Corner
  The Stabb Brothers built the "palatial three-story structure in red brick and Tasmanian freestone, at the corner of Liverpool and Murray Streets" for A.P. Miller and Son, Chemists.
• It was designed by George Fagg in the Queen AnneItalian style, and has an octagonal tower, balconette and oriel windows.
  [More details] Tas. Cyc., Vol I, p.351

1891 Tenders Called:

TENDERS are required for the Erection of (a) new School for the Wesleyan Church, New Town. Drawings and specification may be seen at my office, where tenders are to be delivered on THURSDAY, 1st October, at 12.15 p.m. (1891)
GEORGE FAGG, M S.A., Architect. 2, Lord's-place, Elizabeth street.

TENDERS are required for sundry work in restoration, re-seating and decoration to St, Joseph's Church, Macquarie-street, Hobart. Drawings and specification may be seen at my office, where tenders are to be delivered on THURSDAY, 1st October, at 12 noon. (1891)
GEORGE FAGG, M.S.A., Architect.

• Mercury (Hobart, TAS) Publication: Sep 28 1891 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

10. High Peak, Neika (1891-1892)

• See the page: High Peak, Neika

Fagg designed "High Peak", a house built in 1892 for C.H. Grant, M.L.C. near the Huon Highway at Neika. "A very academic, Tudor style building."

• Illus. Kingborough Council, National Estate Study Municipality of Kingborough, 1976, pp 152-153

  High Peak, Neika (1891-1892)

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  • Fagg remains highly regarded for his work on church buildings, including the chancel and chapel of Hobart's St David's Cathedral.
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  • The mountain chalet he designed is a grand, two-storey "Queen Anne" (Victorian Tudor-style) building, with an asymmetrical roof featuring gables of different sizes with battened ends.
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  • The exterior woodwork is of rare King Billy pine— the trees were cleared on site—the windowsills are of Huon pine, the lower floor was built of rubble stone collected on the property, and the upper storey features stucco over timber lathes and wire mesh.
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  • The home, one of only a few heritage Tudor-style buildings in Tasmania, has a grand formal entrance hall, dining and drawing rooms, children's playroom with separate entrance, a large kitchen, butler's pantry, seven bedrooms, servants' quarters, and a more recently built conservatory/sunroom living area. From the upstairs balcony, the views down over Kingston and the Derwent River are perhaps only surpassed by those from the Mount Wellington summit.
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  • Exquisite stained-glass windows brought out from Belgium and featuring rare cranberry glass roundels adorn the front door. The home is decorated with Jacobean-style English oak furniture that was hand-carved in France especially for this summer home.
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  • The house and tennis court at High Peak sit at the bottom of highly significant gardens, which have thrived in annual rainfall of over a metre (twice that of Hobart) and rich volcanic soil. Read More NorthernArchitecture
• Re: Building and Engineering Journal.
  • "The present number has some excellent illustrations, one depicts Mr C. H. Grant’s new residence, “ High Peak,” on the Huon road, and the other the handsome new residence on the Brown’s River road built for Mr H. W. Bayley. (History? More Information please?)
    Both are built from designs of Mr George Fagg, M.S, architect."
  • 'High Peak', on the slopes of Mt Wellington, was designed by George Fagg in the late 1800s as a summer retreat for Charles Grant and his family. The elaborately carved cabinet and chairs in the main hall are some of the pieces of Jacobean-style English oak furniture especially hand-carved in France for the house.
  • ‘High Peak’ at Neika on the slopes of Mt Wellington is an 1891 Queen Anne style house. The extensive garden was started soon after the house was completed, its early establishment evidenced by huge old conifers on the drive and many other large old trees and shrubs.

11. Magdalen Home and Convent of the Good Shepherd (1892)

"Erected at Sandy Bay by the Roman Catholics of Hobart under the will of the late Very Rev. W. J. Dunn, formerly Vicar-General of this diocese.

Magdalen Home (1893 - 1974) Now a retirement home

• Mount St. Canice convent

  "The institution now in course of erection is situate(d) on a splendid site upon the elevated land west of the Sandy Bay Road, close by the third mile stone from Hobart, and commands an extensive and uninterrupted view over the river north and south."
• "The present building is arranged to form the centre and right wing of a larger one for future completion, and contains the administrative offices, which are consequently larger than the immediate requirements necessitate.
  
  On the ground floor are the entrance hall, stone staircase, sisters' apartments, dining hall (which will be for the present divided to provide a chapel), large classroom (etc)"
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  (The Mercury (Hobart, Tas.)Mon 15 Aug 1892 Page 3)
• Mount Saint Canice was a Catholic convent first opened in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia by the Good Shepherd Sisters in 1893. The sisters began to take in young women who were perceived to have fallen short of the morals and values of the times.
• The Mount Saint Canice convent was to become known as The Magdalene Laundry and was one of ten such laundries in operation throughout Australia.[1] They were based on existing Magdalene laundries in Ireland.[2] "The Magdalene Laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society."[3] The convent closed after 8 were killed in an explosion in 1974.
• Read more:
  Mount Saint Canice - Wikipedia
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Saint_Canice
  • Mount Saint Canice was a Catholic convent first opened in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia by the Good Shepherd Sisters in 1893. The sisters began to take in young women who were perceived to have fallen short of the morals and values of the times. The Mount Saint Canice convent was to become known as The Magdalene ... into the daily operation of Mount Saint Canice in "My Magdalene Home."

• [PDF]Magdalen Home, Mount St. Canice : the early years
  • eprints.u**tas**.edu.au/18871/1/whole_BaxterValerieJ1994_thesis.pdf
    "Prostitution was rife in nineteenth century Tasmania, and a variety of philanthropic efforts attempted to assist underprivileged girls who were involved or likely to become involved in the trade. Magdalen Home became the largest and most enduring of these endeavours. This thesis studies the early years of the Magdalen Home."

• Life in “The Mag” - National Museum of Australia
  • nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/02/28/life-in-the-mag/
  • "Janice Konstantinidis, shares a current photograph, as well as her detailed history of her time from the age of 12 working in the laundry of Mount Saint Canice, Tasmania, one of the Magdalena laundries, nicknamed “The Mag”. Janice also includes recollections of the lengths some girls would go to in order to escape...."
    " ...She asked me if I could see the rolls of barbed wire on top, and I told her that I could. I could also see that the windows through which I was looking were barred; ornate, but barred nonetheless. Someone asked me where the f** I thought I was. I told her that I was at the Mount Carmel Boarding school for Catholic girls. Huge peals of laughter followed. I was then informed that I was in the “Mag”. I asked what that was, and was told that it was the Magdalene Girls’ Reformatory – otherwise known as Mount Saint Canice."
  • Feb 28, 2011 - The laundry was run by the Order of Good Shepherd Nuns in Hobart, Tasmania. ... We, the girls from the home, had a part for ourselves that had been sectioned off, .... The nun in charge of my group was Mother Magdalene. .... the moon and some of lowerSandy Bay, and for this I was immensely grateful.

12. St Clements Church, Kingston (1894)

St Clements Church, Kingston (1894)

St Clements Church, Kingston (1894)

George Fagg's office designed the wooden St Clements Church, Kingston, in a late Victorian (Queen Anne) and Gothic inspired style. [Corner of Channel Highway and Beach Rd.]

• Illus. Kingborough Council, National Estate Study Municipality of Kingborough, 1976, pp 51-52

13. Port Arthur (Carnarvon) - restoration and alteration to Town Hall buildings (George Fagg)(1895)

Port Arthur (Carnarvon) - restoration and alteration to Town Hall buildings (George Fagg)

The Asylum, Port Arthur "The Asylum was the last major structure to be built on the Port Arthur site, being completed in 1868. For many years previously, the lunatics had been housed in a variety of old buildings around the site. Some of the convicts sent to Port Arthur were probably mentally unstable at the time of their transportation, while others became insane as a direct result of many years within the convict system. "The Asylum remained in Government hands until it was handed over to the Carnarvon Town Board in 1889 for use as their town hall. "The bushfires of 1895 destroyed the old building, but although it was promptly rebuilt, the design was different and the clock tower, featuring the clock from the penitentiary, was erected at a different angle. "Around this period, the building was also used as a community hall and for a period of time was also used as a school. "The local council conducted its business at various places around the peninsula but by 1938, it moved into the Asylum building and remained there until a new council chamber was constructed at Nubeena in 1973." "The Asylum has been lovingly preserved and now features a coffee shop, a small museum and site iinterpretations." Read more: On the Convict Trail: The Asylum Port Arthur

• Crawford de Bavay and Cripps, To Conserve Port Arthur, Final Report, Vol.1, p.27
• Fagg had the Port Arthur asylum building reconstructed for the Tasman Council for use as Council Chambers.
  

14. St David's Cathedral (1896)

"The chancel, side chapel, chancel aisles, and vestries of the cathedral which have just been completed, are in the main in accord with the original design, and from the plans of Messrs. Bodley and Garner, of London, carried out under the supervision of Mr. G. S. Fagg, the local architect, and commenced early in December, 1890;"

The chancel, side chapel of St David's Cathedral Hobart

" I feel that it should be pointed out that the greater part of the Cathedral, as it now stands, is the work of Mr. (Henry) Hunter, who, some year since, prepared a design for the entire completion, which, however, was not fully carried out at the time.

• "In what is being done now I am endeavouring to follow the spirit of his intentions, which I consider to be due to his memory."
  • Yours, etc., GEORGE FAGG. 9, Elizabeth-street. (The Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) Mon 2 Nov 1896 Page 4)

17. St. Joseph's Church (1896)

St. Joseph's Church (1896)

"The general work of the sanctuary was carried out in a creditable and artistic manner by Mr. Maher, of Argyle-street, assisted by Mr. Harris, of Elizabeth-street, from designs furnished by Mr. Fagg. "The borders have been stencilled all round, so as to harmonise with the dado and frieze in richly relieved gold. Damaged portions of the central picture - the Resurrection - were cleverly and effectively restored by Miss Anastasia Hall, and the three paintings were cleaned, restained,' and varnished by Mr. R. L. Hood. "The floral decorations for to-day embrace the three altars, the front of the organ gallery, the foot of the windows, and the gasallers, the predominant colours being green and white. Tho rood-screen is decorated alternately with bouquets and tapers, and the tiny lamps on the altars and about the sanctuary are numerous." The Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) Fri 25 Dec 1896 Page 1

St. James Anglican Church, Ranelagh, Tasmania

"During the past couple of months the sanctuary of St. Joseph's Churoh has undergone a complete renovation under the supervision of Mr. George Fagg, architect, of Elizabeth Street. The whole of the sanctuary has been re-decorated."

• (The Mercury (Hobart, Tas.) Fri 25 Dec 1896 Page 1 ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH.)

18. St. James Church of England, Ranelagh (1896)

• The Anglican Church of St James, 1 Louisa Street, Ranelagh TAS, Australia
• One of Tasmania's 106 top heritage buildings (see NTT page 1)
• Victorian with Gothic detail. Detailed in the Tasmanian Heritage Assessment 1985

A Buggy Accident (1897)

• HOBART, Monday.— This morning as Mr 'George Fagg, architect, was driving from New Town to Hobart, the reins became en-tangled with the horse's tail, causing him to bolt.

Mr Fagg was thrown out of the vehicle with considerable force, and the carriage was smashed to pieces.

• Daily Telegraph (Launceston, Tas.) Tue 2 Mar 1897

19. Baptist Tabernacle church in Clarence Street, Perth, Tasmania. (P.M.,1899)

Baptist Tabernacle church in Clarence Street, Perth, Tasmania.

• "The church was designed by English architect George Fagg and built in 1889 by William Gibson (after Geo. Fagg's death)
• The church is said to have Indian influence, but Byzantine.
• "Erected in 1889 by William Gibson of ‘Native Point’, architecture by George Fagg during a visit from England, basically of European style but with strong Indian influences introduced, it is said, as a result of Mr Gibson’s travels in the east, or the visit to Perth of the Reverend Black, Indian missionary. It contains an Italian marble tablet to Mr and Mrs Gibson 'of the Point’.

Obituary - George Fagg

Tasmanian News (Hobart, Tas). Thu 16 Dec 1897 Page 4

• Universal regret was expressed in the city to-day when it was announced that Mr George Fagg, architect, of this city, had expired at his residence, New Town.
• The deceased, who has been unwell for some time, burst a blood vessel, and notwithstanding that he had the best medical aid, succumbed. He arrived in the colony some 13 or 14 years since, bringing with him a high reputation from the Old Country as an architect of eminence, and many of our large public and private buildings were designed by him.
• His latest work was designing the extension to Mary 's Roman Catholic Cathedral, a work of some magnitude. He was a large-hearted philanthropist, and was associated with the carrying on of many of the philanthropic institutions of the city .
• He was a quiet, unassuming man, who did not mix him self up in any way with political movements. He was a close reasoner, and charitable to a degree. He and Mrs Fagg have done much during their stay in this city to carry sunshine into many a poor home.
• He leaves a wife and family to mourn their loss.