Ginahgulla

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title: "Ginahgulla" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["houses-completed-in-1858", "victorian-architecture-in-sydney", "houses-in-bellevue-hill,-new-south-wales", "new-south-wales-places-listed-on-the-defunct-register-of-the-national-estate", "1858-establishments-in-australia", "fairfax-family-(publishing)", "edmund-blacket-buildings-in-sydney", "new-south-wales-heritage-database"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginahgulla" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Ginahgulla
image	(1)Fairfax_House.jpg
image_size	270
image_alt
image_caption	Ginahgulla, Bellevue Hill
map_type	Australia NSW east Sydney
map_caption	Location in Greater Sydney
map_size	270
map_dot_label	Ginahgulla
relief	1
alternate_names	Fairfax House
status	Complete
building_type	House
architectural_style	Victorian Free Gothic
location	17-25 Ginahgulla Road, , New South Wales
location_city
location_country	Australia
coordinates
completion_date
demolition_date
client	John Fairfax
owner	The Scots College
material	Brick and Sydney sandstone
architect	Edmund Blacket (attrib.)
rooms
website
embed	yes
designation1	RNE
designation1_offname	Ginahgulla
designation1_type	Heritage
designation1_date	21 October 1980
designation1_number	2578
designation2	NSWHD
designation2_offname	Fairfax House part of Scots College
designation2_type	Landscape
designation2_date	10 March 1995
designation2_number	Local register
designation2_free1name	Group/Collection
designation2_free1value	Parks, Gardens and Trees
designation2_free2name	Category
designation2_free2value	Tree groups - copse
references
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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."

References

References

1. {{cite NSW HD. 2711160. Fairfax House part of Scots College
2. {{cite AHD. 2480. Ginahgulla, 17-25 Ginahgulla Rd, Bellevue Hill, NSW, Australia. (21 March 1978)
3. Heritage of Australia, p.2/131

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