Posts Tagged: sandstone

1920s Quarrymaster’s Cottage

Built in the early 20th Century, this stone cottage is of historical interest as the local stone quarry manager’s house. We were invited in to give the home some cohesion throughout and to re-establish lost heritage details. The restoration of the leadlight and the front door, the replacement of side entrance leadlight, a more authentic […]

Wiston Gardens

“Professor Leslie Wilkinson’s domestic architecture is a bottomless source of surprises, discoveries and idiosyncrasies; his houses are complex, full of unexpected twists and turns.  The scale is human, comfortable and not rhetorical.”  Luigi Rosselli   The Sea Dragon,  located at Wiston Gardens in Sydney’s Double Bay, was designed in 1936 by the eminent Australian architect Professor Leslie Wilkinson with Spanish […]