14a. Ellora

Style

Victorian Georgian

Year

1865

About Ellora

The dwelling Ellora, opposite Woodstone, was built around 1865. It is a substantial weatherboard house situated on a prominent corner site with a mature garden.

Ellora occupies Lot 58 of Billyard’s subdivision. It is associated with a number of prominent local people and their families - well-known solicitor and Alderman Thomas Salter, for whom the house was built, and Mr. Gerrard Edgar Herring, Under Secretary for Lands and Mayor of Ryde in 1874, 1876 and 1880-1884, who was the owner from 1870.

By 1876, the Herrings had built a second house of a similar size at the opposite end of the property, naming it Bracondale which became the Herrings’ family home while Ellora was tenanted by a Mr Folkard and later by the Reverend William Lumsdaine, Rector of Christ Church, Gladesville, who resided here from 1884-1902. Not much is known on the occupants of Ellora after 1905 when the new rectory was completed at Christ Church.

In 1916/1919, after Gerrard Herring’s death, one of his sons, Sydney C.E. Herring, subdivided and auctioned the Herring Estate including both houses. Amiens Street was renamed after the First World War to commemorate one of the 1916 battlefields on the Somme, France.

Location

Corner of Wharf Road and Amiens Street (formerly Bay View Terrace) 54 Wharf Road / 19A Amiens Street, Gladesville 2111  View Map