• Title
  Ecclesbourne - architectural plans, approximately 1871-1978
• Call number
  PXD 886
  PXB 404
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  approximately 1871-1978
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Textual Records, Photographs, Clippings
• Reference code
  414455
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : PXD 886
  
• Physical Description
  21 drawings - ink & watercolour drawings, dyelines - 60.0 x 84.5 cm or smaller
  Textual Records - (typescript) copy of article published in 'Sunday Times' 20 May 1908
  12 photographs - photoprints
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Ecclesbourne at 17 Ocean Avenue, Double Bay [Darling Point], was built by Thomas Whistler Smith and sold to James Norton in the 1850s. Norton undertook extensive additions to the house and established gardens. He married Harriott Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas Walker and Anna Elizabeth Walker (nee Blaxland). The house was later used as a private hotel and boarding house in the 1960-1970s. It was purchased by the Cancer Patients Assistance Society of NSW in 1978 and is currently being used to accommodate relatives and carers of cancer patients.
  Reference: Some Houses and people of NSW / G. Nesta Griffiths. Sydney : Ure Smith, 1967
  Reference: A history of the Cancer Patients Assistance Society of New South Wales / Leonard Karp. Boolarong Publications, 1990
• Scope and Content
  PXD 886
  Architectural plans, additions and alterations to the house when owned by James Norton, including the addition of the tower in 1872, drawn by architect, J.J. Davey. Plus later dyeline floorplans ca. 1970s
  
  PXB 404
  Plans accompanied by copy photographs of house interiors (probably when owned by James Norton) showing dining room, hallway, drawing room and copy of James Norton crest. Plus later snapshots of house ca. 1970s, showing exterior views of house and gardens in state of disrepair
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no: c042030001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  'J. J. Davey, Architect' -- signed or stamped at lower edge of plans
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Davey, John Joseph, 1841?-1931
  
• Subject
  Norton, James, 1824-1906.
  Dwellings.
  Towers--Design and plans.
  Architectural design--Australia.
  Architectural drawing--New South Wales--Sydney.
  
• Place
  Ecclesbourne (Double Bay, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3151356

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