Wairoa, Aldgate

Wairoa is a historic home and garden located in the Adelaide Hills between Aldgate and Stirling in South Australia. The gardens are regularly open to the public as part of the Australian Open Garden Scheme.

The 13 hectare (32 acre) property was purchased in 1888 by William Horn, and most of the house had been completed by the early 1890s

History

The house/property has been owned/occupied by:

1888 -	1896	William Horn
1896 -	1941	Tom Elder Barr-Smith and family
1941 -	1965	Daughter Joanna Lang Barr-Smith, Lady Gosse (1886-1965) (Married Sir James Hay Gosse (1876-1952) in 1907)
1965 -	1972	Screenings Pty Ltd
1972 -	2004	Marbury School, Aldgate
2004 -	2007
	2007	Community titled
2007 -	now	Several families

References

• http://wairoa.com.au/
• http://wairoa.com.au/history/
• http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/record=b2617101 (Keelan, Michael (2009) "Heavenley Heritage", SA life, vol. 6, no. 5 (May 2009), pp. 70–75)
  • Article about the historic garden 'Wairoa' in Aldgate owned by Kirsty and Ian Dodd and Wendy and Richard Bray. Article includes a reproduction of a watercolour by William Tibbetts [sic].
• http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/record=b2247929 ("Wairoa, present and past", Advertiser, 7 July 1979, pp. 21–22)
• http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au/record=b2240286 (Jones, David Sydney (1999), "Heritage living", Spring 1999, pg.16)
• http://www.ahc.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/Report_dap_8_April_2008_-_2-142_Mt_Barker_Road__Aldgate_-_473-503-07.pdf
  • Development application to turn Marbury School Boarding House and outbuildings into two dwellings (8 April 2008)
• http://www.postcards-sa.com.au/features/adel_hills_gardens.html - "Postcards" 2003

External links

• Copyright photographs
  • Painting of the house and garden (Tibbits, William, 1837-1906, artist)
  • The House in 2010

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