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Suburbs Carthona |
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architect |
Design taken from Loudon’s “Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture” |
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location |
Carthona Avenue,
Darling Point. |
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date |
c.1841. |
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style |
Old Colonial Gothick Picturesque |
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construction |
Built for Sir Thos. Mitchell |
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House |
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| Built by Sire Thomas Mitchell, many of the keystones of doors and windows carved by him. Impressive two storey mansion with cellars, of mannerist Tudor Gothic style. Built of sandstone, exterior is a profusion of gabled slate roofs having castellated parapets and balconies dominated by tall tudor chimneys. Ground floor windows are pointed Gothic style having three centred heads and fretwork while first floor windows are flat arched and shuttered. Later sympathetic additions made. | |
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