Stoneleigh is a heritage-listed residence at 1 Darley Street in the inner city

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, Australia. It was built in 1860. It is also known as Greencourt. It was added to the

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on 2 April 1999.

Description

Stoneleigh is a storey Victorian Regency style house, freestanding, with a hipped corrugated steel roof, a bank of 12 paned timber framed double hung windows to the first floor, and arched colonnade to the ground floor. It features a Victorian cast iron palisade fence. The colonnade extends around one side of the building. The building is constructed of stone and rendered brick. The columns to the colonnade are octagonal with moulded caps. The building also features articulated quoins.

Significance

Stoneleigh is historically significant as a fine example of the mid Victorian villas of the wealthy, one of the earliest layers of the development of Darlinghurst. It is associated with two notable people who owned the building: Richard Jones, 1870–1892, who was Chairman of the

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, and founder of the ''

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'' newspaper; and J. Russell French, 1895–1905, who was General Manager of the

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. It is aesthetically significant as an exceptionally fine example of a Victorian Regency villa.

Heritage listing

Stoneleigh was listed on the

on 2 April 1999.

References

Attribution

* * {{NSW-HD-CC, name=House "Stoneleigh" Including Interior, Front Fence and Grounds, dno=2420152, id=2420152, year=2018, accessdate=24 October 2018 New South Wales State Heritage Register Darlinghurst, New South Wales Houses in New South Wales Retail buildings in New South Wales Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register

Description

Significance

Heritage listing

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