4. Edward Jeaffreson Jackson, NSW

• Hollowforth, Neutral Bay, 1892

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

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Hollowforth's architect E. Jefferson Jackson is regarded as a leading architect of the period and the house ranks alongside a number of Horbury Hunt's commissions as the finest examples of the shingle style within the State.

• Hollowforth which is both innovative and bold is an outstanding example of the American shingle style displaying further influence by the Art nouveau and English Arts and Crafts movement.

  • Hollowforth reflects the Art Nouveau influence the theme of which is carried through into the fluid geometric pattern of the shingled wall surfaces.

  • Its roof is a dramatic composition of stepped hips, broken gables, massive brick chimneys and dormer windows with conical caps.

  • The shingled upper walls are bellcast over the lower brick walls supported on a sandstone base. The variety of window forms is typical of the period. The interior contains several fine Art Nouveau features such as leadlighting, tapered stair balusters and joinery details. Prior to its conversion into 2 strata units, the house was being used as 13 flatettes.
     

• Dr. Capper's House, North Sydney, 1892

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This building is designed in the Federation Arts and Crafts style.

• The site was the 1870 home of James Husband and family. A new house, designed by E. Jeaffreson Jackson, was owned by Dr. Capper and his mother. From this a hand-carved mantelpiece remains in the front building.

• The house was used at times as a home and hospital.

• Remodelled, this was opened in 1926 by the Rt. Ho. W.M. Hughes as the Council Chambers, enlarged again in 1938. The northern end was burnt out in 1976, restored and re-opened in 1978. The Wyllie Wing, in McLaren Street, designed by Harry Seidler, was completed in 1977 [16]

• 'Hindfell', 11A Lucinda Avenue, Wahroonga, 1901-02

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House for Henry Gullett; Builder: Brown and Tapson; Cost: £1,685

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Left: Hindfell, 11A Lucinda Ave Wahroonga - State Library NSW

Above: Hindfell, 11A Lucinda Ave Wahroonga - – photo taken for the Exhibition of the Town Planning Associationof NSW and "The Commonwealth Home" at the Garden Design Exhibition, London, 1928 - State Library NSW

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"Journalist Henry Gullett (1837-1914) retired as editor of the Sydney Morning Herald in 1899 and travelled to England. On his return, he commissioned this house from architect E. Jeaffreson Jackson.

• Though built as a retirement home, Gullett was coaxed out of retirement to edit the Daily Telegraph from 1901 to 1903. Henry Gullett’s personal manuscript papers are held by Mitchell Library at MLMSS 1473.

The design of the house, with its shingling, arches and prominent bracketed oriel window under a large jettying gable was very influential.

• An almost identical design was used some years later by builder William Richards for “Mounteray”, in Burwood Road, Burwood, as part of George Hoskins’ Appian Way subdivision.

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Above: Mounteray, 318 Burwood Road by Appian Way, Burwood

“It is, in the first place, an essentially comfortable Australian home; it is picturesque without any obvious straining after effect; it has absolutely no unnecessary ornamental detail; and it groups well. No money has been wasted in attempting to achieve mere prettiness, and yet the house cannot fail to be interesting to any one who cares in the slightest degree for domestic architecture.”

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• The Hastings, Neutral Bay North Sydney (1904-13)

"A large, dramatically designed Federation Arts and Crafts style house on an important harbourside site. Design is attributed to noted architect E Jeaffreson Jackson. Site includes a stone wall which may be associated with "Thrupps Cottage" or "Craignathan" both important early houses. It forms a part of the collection of large fine houses in the vicinity.

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Above: The Hastings, 2 Hayes Street, Neutral Bay, NSW

"A two storey brick house with attic rooms below a multi-gabled roof of terracotta tiles. It features a roughcast rendered upper floor and square tower with battlemented parapet, bracketed, oriel windows, timber shingled gable ends, and sills and lintels and windows, dramatic arched brick verandah entries and timber slat balustrades to upper verandahs. This building is designed in the Federation Arts and Crafts style."

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5. George Sydney Jones, NSW

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• Architect George Sydney Jones [1868-1927] was the grandson of retailer David Jones and the son of Sir Phillip Sydney Jones [1836-1918], a prominent physician. The Jones family resided at ‘Llandilo’ on The Boulevarde Strathfield [now Trinity Grammar Preparatory School] from c.1878.

• George Sydney Jones spent his childhood and early life in Strathfield and many of his early designs are located in Strathfield.

• George Sydney Jones was educated in architecture in London, qualifying for the diploma of Associate in the Royal Institute of British Architects [ARIBA] in 1890. He returned to Australia in 1891 and started his own architectural practice. He was elected a Fellow of the NSW Institute 1896-1901, Editor of Art & Architecture 1909-1912 and President of the NSW Institute of Architects [1912-1914 & 1920-21] .

• George Sydney Jones designed six properties in Strathfield

1. ​‘Trinity Congregational Church’ [1889],

2. ‘Springfort’ [1894],

3. ‘Darenth’[1895],

4. ’Bickley’ [1894],

5. ‘Treghre’ [1899], and

6. ‘Luleo’ [1912].
   With the exception of ‘Springfort’ and ‘Luleo’, all properties were built for or financed by the Jones family.

• ‘Luleo’ was a private commission, it was built on land jointly owned by Sir Phillip Sydney Jones and his uncle, stockbroker Thomas James (TJ) Thompson

• Three survive reasonably in-tact, ‘Springfort’, ‘Darenth’ & ‘Trinity Congregational Church’.

• Springfort, Strathfield, 1894
  
   

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Above Left and Above: Springfort, 108 Redmyre Road Strathfield, the residence of the late Arthur Royce Lysaght, Esq.  

• ‘Springfort’ was built in 1894 to a design by architect George Sydney Jones for Alexander Troup.

• The house was illustrated as ‘A Cottage in Strathfield’ in the Australasian Builder’s and Contractor’s News in its issue of November 10 1894, which stated:
  ‘The cottage... was erected at Strathfield some months ago, and is situated on the heights of the Sydney suburb. The walls are brick, with white dressings, mouldings etc of the same material, and the roofs are covered with American redwood shingles, with tiled ridging. The architect was Mr. G Sydney-Jones, ARIBA, of Hunter-Street, Sydney, and the work was carried out by Mr J C Horne of Alexandria, the contract amounting to 1414 pounds’.

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• Darenth, Strathfield, 1895

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• ‘Darenth’ 32 Albyn Road Strathfield was designed in 1895 by architect George Sydney Jones as a private residence for the Reverend George Littlemore, Minister of the Strathfield Trinity Congregational Church.

• The building was financed and owned by his Jones’ father Dr Phillip Sydney Jones, a close friend of Rev. George Littlemore. The Rev. Littlemore was the occupant of ‘Darenth’ until his death in 1929.
  The Register of the National Estate listing describes the house as ”

• ‘Darenth’ is a single storey house of face brick in stretcher bond, tuck pointed and colour washed. The roof of unglazed Marseille tiles is broken into a number of hipped and gabled forms, and there is a prominent corner tower with a tall pyramidal roof of flat terra cotta shingles. The front verandah has turned timber posts and timber brackets.

• The architectural style is mainly Federation period Arts and Crafts style, shown in features such as

  • the long runs of roof and exposed eaves;

  • the use of timber shingles for fascias and over the entrance porch;

  • the variety of window shapes including bulls eye and horseshoe; and

  • the tones of face brick and tiles using decorative moulded bricks for string courses and hood moulds.

• At the same time there are a number of unconventional features including the split level plan, banded brick chimneys and curious corner brick buttresses which extend above the eaves line to form square topped pilasters, a typical Federation Free style motif.

• There are unsympathetic modern openings in the front wall. A mature front garden conceals the house from the street. There is a brick and timber picket front fence. The rear garden has been altered to accommodate and elevated patio and swimming pool.”