Parkside mansion restoration to begin, signalling start of $45 million One on The Park development
WORK to return an inner south mansion to its former glory will begin next month, signalling the start of a $45 million development at the site.
THE restoration of a State Heritage-listed Parkside mansion will begin next month, signalling the start of a $45 million development at the site.
Developer Tritan Corporation is bringing St Margaret’s House back its former glory as part of work of on a nine-storey apartment complex at the corner of Greenhill Rd and George St.
Work will include retiling the 1890s-built homestead – also known as Carramar House – removing heavy steel fire escapes and repairing rotten timber frames and doors.
Harcourts sales agent Rob McWilliams, who is marketing the apartment project on behalf of the developer, said the two-storey building would be returned to its original state when restoration works were completed early next year.
Mr McWilliams said work was scheduled to start earlier this year but set backs in obtaining approvals from the state’s heritage architects delayed the project.
“It will be quite pretty and attractive sight when it is done – it will look just as it did in the 1890s,” Mr McWilliams said.
Believed to be the first house to be built on Greenhill Rd, the original single-storey building was demolished in 1897 and replaced with a two-storey homestead.
The Gosse family lived in the mansion until it was transferred to the State Government and converted into a mental health clinic in 1965.
The red brick home was State Heritage-listed in 1989.
Mr McWilliams said the mansion would be used an office space for Tritan Corporation, as well as other companies in the development sector.
He said more than half of the 59 apartments and townhouses at One on The Park – which will be built behind St Margaret’s House – had been sold.
Work was expected to start in the first week of January and be completed by the middle of 2018.