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Trevenna is the residence of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England, in
The house itself comprises three storeys and features an imposing main entrance on the southern side. Some of the trees in its garden, including 
Armidale, New South Wales
Armidale is a city in the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia. Armidale had a population of 24,504 as of June 2018. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. It is the administrative centre for the Northern Tablelands region. It ...
, Australia. The house was built in 1892 and is located off Trevenna Road on the western side of the main campus in Armidale. There is no public access to the property or gardens, but the gardens have been open for public viewing, on several occasions in recent years.
History
Designed by Canadian-born, Boston-trained architect,John Horbury Hunt
John Horbury Hunt (1838 – December 30, 1904) was a Canadian-born Australian architect who worked in Sydney and rural New South Wales from 1863.
Life and career
Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of a builder, Hunt was trained in B ...
(1838–1904), Trevenna was originally the home of the Wrights, a prominent New England family of graziers. It was originally built for Mrs Eliza Jane Wright. The homestead and its grounds were bequeathed to UNE as the Vice-Chancellor's residence in 1960 by Mrs Florence May Wilson.
The Vice-Chancellors who have resided at Trevenna are:
*Sir Robert Madgwick
Sir Robert Bowden Madgwick (10 May 1905 – 25 March 1979) was an Australian educationist. He was the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England and served two terms as Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Madgwick ...
(1962–1966)
*Sir Zelman Cowen
Sir Zelman Cowen, (7 October 1919 – 8 December 2011) was an Australian legal scholar and university administrator who served as the 19th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1977 to 1982.
Cowen was born in Melbourne, and attended ...
(1966–1970)
*Professor Alec Lazenby
Alec Lazenby (born 1927) is an academic who has held positions at the University of Cambridge, University of New England, University of Tasmania, the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research and the Welsh Plant Breeding Station. Lazen ...
(1970–1977)
*Professor Ronald Gates (1977–1985)
*Professor Lawrence W Nicol (1985–1988)
*Professor Don McNicol (1988–1990)
*Professor Robert HT Smith (1990–1994)
*Professor Bruce Thom (1994–1996)
*Professor Ingrid Moses
Ingrid Moses (born 15 July 1941 in Aurich, Germany), an Australian academic and former university administrator, is an emeritus professor at the University of Canberra. After a long academic career in Australia, Moses served as the Chancellor o ...
(1997–2006)
*Professor Alan Pettigrew (2006–2009)
*Professor James Barber (2010–2014)
*Professor Annabelle Duncan
Annabelle Duncan (born in Nelson, New Zealand in 1953), is a microbiologist who held the post of Vice-Chancellor at the University of New England (UNE) from 2014-2019.
Early life and education
Duncan was born the youngest of two girls to parent ...
(2014–2019)
* Professor Brigid Heywood (2019–2022)
It's not known if Professor Malcolm Eric Nairn, Vice- Chancellor in 1997, lived at Trevenna.
Grounds
The house itself comprises three storeys and features an imposing main entrance on the southern side. Some of the trees in its garden, including horse chestnut
The genus ''Aesculus'' ( or ), with species called buckeye and horse chestnut, comprises 13–19 species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae. They are trees and shrubs native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with six species n ...
s, pines and planes, date back to the 1890s when Trevenna was built. The garden is constructed on several levels. A sunken garden, complete with stone sundial
A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky. In the narrowest sense of the word, it consists of a flat ...
and fish pond, is on one side of the house, while on the other a series of hedges encloses a private lawn.
The grounds also feature a gardener's shed, the smaller Trevenna Cottage, and a clay tennis court. They also include a herb garden and orchard and numerous dry-stone walls, some of which have been overplanted with ivy hedges. A private gravel road of 300 metres, lined with pines and lamp posts on either side, leads off Trevenna Road and winds through parklands up to the house.
The front garden slopes away into a series of hedges and wide perennial borders lead the eye across the Bellevue area of the University with the city of Armidale and Mount Duval in the distance. Trevenna's gardens were the feature of a '' Woman's Weekly'' special in 1971.
References
University of New England (Australia) Houses completed in 1892 Armidale {{Australia-struct-stub