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Completed
in 1845, historic Bronte House is among the oldest buildings in
the eastern suburbs of Sydney. Designed in the picturesque style,
it has romantic circular and hexagonal corner turrets, deep bay
windows and fanciful pierced wooden tracery on both the eastern
and western fronts.
Although lacking the elegance and grandeur of scale of Sydney's
great colonial mansions, Bronte House is nevertheless highly
significant
as a lively and largely intact example of a cottage orneé;
in the 'Gothick' taste, a decorative style much favoured in
the
last quarter of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries.
The placement of the house in its landscape is particularly felicitous,
the formal garden merging easily with the natural landscape
of
Bronte Gully to make it the embodiment of the romantic villa
by the sea.
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OPEN DAYS 2012:
Saturday 31st March & Sunday 1st April.
Saturday 22nd September & Sunday 23rd September.
Saturday 24th November & Sunday 25th November.
See Open
Days for further details.

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