Fairfax House is a historic house in the Sydney suburb of Bellevue Hill

Bellevue Hill, New South Wales

Bellevue Hill is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bellevue Hill is an affluent suburb, located 5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra....

. It is listed on the Australian Register of the National Estate

Register of the National Estate

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The two-storey Gothic house is on the south side of Ginahgulla Road. It was built in 1858 by John Fairfax

John Fairfax

John Fairfax , English-born journalist, is notable for the incorporation of the major newspapers of modern day Australia.-Early life:...

, of the Fairfax family of newspaper proprietors. It may have been designed by Edmund Blacket

Edmund Blacket

Edmund Thomas Blacket was an Australian architect, best known for his designs for the University of Sydney, St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney and St...

, who was otherwise distinguished as an ecclesiastical architect, responsible for many churches in the Sydney area. The Fairfax family used the house until 1945, when it was bought by the nearby private school, the Scots College

The Scots College

For other schools with a similar name see Scots College.The Scots College is an independent Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Bellevue Hill, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

. The College still owned the house as of 2008.