Clarendon House

234 Clarendon Station Rd, Nile TAS 7212, Australia +61 3 6398 6220 Website 10am – 4pm Launceston Campervan Hire

Located at 234 Clarendon Station road, the magnificent Clarendon House which was built in 1838, is situated on 7 hectares.

Its 27ks from Launcestion, just a little further on from Evandale on the c416 road.

Clarendon was a big pastoral farm. It has many farm buildings, servants quarters and gardens and parkland. An avenue of trees leads to the house. In the Conservatory, there is a Restaurant and tea rooms, also, if you wish to stay, there are cottages available.

Opening hours are 10 – 4pm
Admission 2008 is $10, if you are a National trust member, then it is free.
This is a beautiful Georgian house.

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Entrance hall. Tasmania. Clarendon House near Evandale Tasmania.
Clarendon House at Nile. This amazing Georgian Regency house with an impressive portico is unique in Australia. It is surrounded by English parkland gardens and a flower walled garden at the rear. The original owner wanted to impress people. He was James Cox whose father (William Cox) had taken a group of convicts to build the first road over the Blue Mountains towards Bathurst in 1815. For his efforts Governor Macquarie rewarded him with large land grants near Mudgee. James Cox settled in VDL in 1814 and received a land grant of almost 7,000 acres at Nile. He had Clarendon built in 1838 for a cost around £30,000. By this time he was one of the wealthiest men in DVL with six major properties. By sitting the house on a three quarters basement it makes it look even higher than it is. Sweeping steps lead up to the front door like a Southern American slave plantation homestead. From his first floor living quarters James Cox could look down on the world! The front door has a beautiful fan light above it, and the house was designed to be seen from all sides. The corridors inside form a simple cross. From the rear terrace the owners could look down on the South Esk River. He died in 1866 and was buried at St Andrew’s Church of England in Evandale. Inside the house note the nursery or play room upstairs. Cox had eight children with his first wife and then he married the daughter of Lieutenant Governor Collins in 1829. This wife was one of the illegitimate children born of Margaret Eddington just before Collins died in Hobart in 1810! He had another eight children with his second wife. So a nursery would have been an important room in Clarendon! In Nile you will see other very old buildings possibly including a small stone cottage built by John Batman in 1827. He had 600 acres here and sometimes stayed here before he moved off to establish the village of Melbourne. In Nile village, if you can call it that, you will see the former Nile Inn, an old two storey Georgian style inn that lacks symmetry. It has been vacant for some years and is partly vandalised.

Georgian door near Launceston Tasmania. Clarendon House 1838. Nile Tasmania.
Evandale. Following Macquarie’s trip through VDL in 1811 Evandale was chosen as a spot for a barracks town in 1816 and known as Paterson Plains. In 1836 the name was changed to Evandale after the first surveyor general of VDL George Evans. At that time convicts were being used to build a water channel through some local hills to provide water for Launceston. The scheme was abandoned but the town grew and survived. The whole village is classified as it has many interesting Georgian and later buildings. These days it is best known for its weekly antiques and other markets, which we will visit, and an annual penny-farthing bicycle race. When the rail arrived from Hobart in 1876 Evandale became the junction for the western railway on to Devonport and the northern one to Launceston (Western Junction). Whilst in the village look out for: the Uniting Church ( formerly St Andrews Presbyterian) with its classical belltower, brilliant white walls and Doric columns; the Royal Oak Hotel (1840) now Evandale Antiques; the Clarendon Arms Hotel (1847); and the former Patriot King William IV Hotel at 16 High Street. John Glover the colonial artist, best known for his paintings of early VDL gardens used to visit Evandale to paint. The town holds an annual art competition with the Glover prize. Check out you lunch spot whilst in Evandale as we will return here for our lunch break before heading back to the Launceston airport in the early afternoon. Clarendon House at Nile. This amazing Georgian Regency house with an impressive portico is unique in Australia. It is surrounded by English parkland gardens and a flower walled garden at the rear. The original owner wanted to impress people. He was James Cox whose father (William Cox) had taken a group of convicts to build the first road over the Blue Mountains towards Bathurst in 1815. For his efforts Governor Macquarie rewarded him with large land grants near Mudgee. James Cox settled in VDL in 1814 and received a land grant of almost 7,000 acres at Nile. He had Clarendon built in 1838 for a cost around £30,000. By this time he was one of the wealthiest men in DVL with six major properties. By sitting the house on a three quarters basement it makes it look even higher than it is. Sweeping steps lead up to the front door like a Southern American slave plantation homestead. From his first floor living quarters James Cox could look down on the world! The front door has a beautiful fan light above it, and the house was designed to be seen from all sides. The corridors inside form a simple cross. From the rear terrace the owners could look down on the South Esk River. He died in 1866 and was buried at St Andrew’s Church of England in Evandale. Inside the house note the nursery or play room upstairs. Cox had eight children with his first wife and then he married the daughter of Lieutenant Governor Collins in 1829. This wife was one of the illegitimate children born of Margaret Eddington just before Collins died in Hobart in 1810! He had another eight children with his second wife. So a nursery would have been an important room in Clarendon! In Nile you will see other very old buildings possibly including a small stone cottage built by John Batman in 1827. He had 600 acres here and sometimes stayed here before he moved off to establish the village of Melbourne. In Nile village, if you can call it that, you will see the former Nile Inn, an old two storey Georgian style inn that lacks symmetry. It has been vacant for some years and is partly vandalised.

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