Ginahgulla

Ginahgulla
Ginahgulla, Bellevue Hill
Ginahgulla Location within east Sydney
Alternative names	Fairfax House
General information
Status	Completed
Type	House
Architectural style	Victorian Free Gothic
Location	17-25 Ginahgulla Road, Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates	33°52′32″S 151°15′05″E
Completed	1858 (1858)
Client	John Fairfax
Owner	The Scots College
Technical details
Material	Brick and Sydney sandstone
Design and construction
Architect	Edmund Blacket (attrib.)
Register of the National Estate
Official name	Ginahgulla
Type	Heritage
Designated	21 October 1980
Reference no.	2578
New South Wales Heritage Database (Local Government Register)
Official name	Fairfax House part of Scots College
Type	Landscape
Designated	10 March 1995
Reference no.	Local register
Group/Collection	Parks, Gardens and Trees
Category	Tree groups - copse
References

Ginahgulla, also known as Fairfax House, is a historic house in the Sydney suburb of Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Completed in 1858 in the Victorian Free Gothic style, Ginahgulla and its gardens are listed on the (now defunct) Australian Register of the National Estate and the Municipality of Woollahra local government heritage list.

History

This two-storey Gothic house is situated on the south side of Ginahgulla Road. It was built in 1858 by John Fairfax, of the Fairfax family of newspaper proprietors. It may have been designed by Edmund Blacket, who was otherwise distinguished as an ecclesiastical architect, responsible for many churches in the Sydney area. The Fairfax family used the house until 1945, when it was bought by the nearby independent school, The Scots College. The College uses the house as a boarding house and is sometimes known as "the house on the hill."