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Vaucluse House
Houses and their owners have a tendency to be reflections of one another. Vaucluse House presents venerable Gothic Revival façades to Sydney Harbour but the mansion, built in fits and starts between 1805 and the early 1860s, is in a mixture of styles, is unresolved in terms of its layout and lacks the social grace of a formal entrance.
Its builder, William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872) is known today as one of our early colonial statesmen. His sense of his place in societywas undermined by illegitimacy and convict associations. With the rising tide of Victorian morality his wife Sarah was shunned as lacking respectability and the family had to socialise outside of colonial society. Vaucluse House’s lack of cohesion is perhaps a result of Wentworth’s brooding anger at this slight and the house’s slow growth over decades. In contrast with the house, the grounds preserve a remarkably complete 19th century estate plan with stables, rural outbuildings, carriage drives, paddocks, lawns, a serene pleasure garden and recreated Victorian kitchen garden. Read the guidebook | Read the newsletter
VINTAGE SUNDAYS: VICTORIAN
EAT YOUR HISTORY
TEAROOMS
Catch up with friends and family at the Vaucluse House Tearooms.
T 02 9388 8188
Address: Wentworth Road, Vaucluse, NSW 2030
Contact: House: 02 9388 7922 | Tearooms: 02 9388 8188
Admission:
- Adult $8 I
- Child/Concession $4 |
- Family $17 |
- Members free |
- Wheelchair access
Hours: Open Friday - Sunday 11am – 4pm | Tours every hour, last tour 3pm | Open daily during NSW school holidays | Closed Good Friday and Christmas Day
Transport:
- Bus
- Train
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