'COLWYN' AT 50 VICTORIA AVENUE
Colour prints. (a) & (b) Large old brick home with steeply pitched terracotta shingle roof with two gables, finials, decorative ridge capping and double chimneys with pots. Unsympathetic alterations and additions include concrete verandah posts. solar panel, brick wall, steel gate and concrete drive. (c ) & (d) View showing two storeyed rear of house on steeply sloping, lawned block. French doors to verandah and balcony with white balustrade and enclosed end. Modern redevelopments on either side. Old cotton palm near picket fence with cyclone gate to foreshore reserve. (e) View of south east corner showing brick construction and two storey rear section through garden with Norfolk Island pine.
Home built by Arthur Bunning in 1909. Large two storeyed house with steeply pitched terracotta shingle roof extending over veranadah. Appears to be location P255 - originally a pensioner guard block. Mrs Bunning disliked the strong winds off Freshwater Bay and 'Colwyn' was sold to J.B.L. Weir (Waddie Waddie Pastoral Co.) in 1922. Sold to J.H.C. & E.V. McCaulay in 1953 who lived there until 2006 when it was sold to Peter Bacich who undertook extensive conservation with input form the Museum. Block subdivided and lower, riverside portion sold. 'Colwyn' sold 2011.
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- 'COLWYN' 50 VICTORIA AVENUE CLAREMONT (0.03km away)
- IVANHOE' 46 VICTORIA AVENUE (0.08km away)
- EFFORDS SHOP CHESTER ROAD,18 (0.17km away)
- POLICE STATION (LATER CLAREMONT MUSEUM) (0.19km away)
- HENNEKER, DAVID AT 66 VICTORIA AVENUE (0.19km away)
- 'HILLSIDE' AGETT ROAD, 32 (0.19km away)
- HENNEKER, KEITH AT 66 VICTORIA AVENUE (0.19km away)
- PROPOSED CLAREMONT MUSEUM BEFORE CONVERSION FROM POLICE HOUSE (0.19km away)
- MUMME CHILDREN AT 66 VICTORIA AVENUE (0.19km away)
- HENNEKER CHILDREN OUTSIDE 66 VICTORIA AVENUE (0.2km away)
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