Narryna

Narryna, Battery Point, Hobart

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This series of photos is from an "1830s merchant’s house" in Hobart. There is more information here, including a site plan and a visitor's guide (PDF) with a description of each of the rooms.

I have broken my photos up by room/part of the house, and linked them below.

1 Entrance Hall
2 Drawing Room
3 Dining Room
4 Guest Bedroom
5 Breakfast Room
6 Back Hall
7 Kitchen
8 Landing
9  Exhibition Rooms
10 Nursery
11 Bedroom
12 Hall & Dressing Room
13 Servants Quarters
14 Pantry
15 Laundry
Courtyard

Courtyard, Narryna

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Courtyard at rear of house, Narryna, Battery Point, Hobart. Kitchen wing to the left. Pantry & laundry to the right. Photos from beyond the gate at bottom of this post. Larger image


Facing the other way. On the right, kitchen wing with servants room above. Entrance to main house under the low roof at the back.


On the right, kitchen wing with servants room above. Entrance to main house under the low roof at the back,with bedroom window above. Pantry and laundry to the left.


Tower (bottom to top): back hall, dressing room, crow's next


Entrance to main house.


Pantry.


Laundry.


Back corner of courtyard.


Beyond the gate.


Signale gun.


Try pot.


Try pot.


Coach house & stables.


Through gate back to courtyard.

Former Bedroom & Nursery, Narryna

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Narryna, Battery Point, Hobart. Other rooms are under the Narryna tag.

These two rooms are currently used as exhibition rooms. According to information onsite, the larger of the rooms (the one in the photos above and below) was originally the man bedroom with a foyer and dressing room. There are signs on the floor, architraves and cornices (not shown) that indicate where the walls used to be.


The second exhibition room (through here) was a second nursery room.

Through to nursery.

Main Stairs, Narryna

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Stairs up from entrance hall. Larger image.

Narryna, Battery Point, Hobart. Other rooms are under the Narryna tag.


Partway up the stairs is a door leading to a dressing room and through that to the servants quarters.


On the landing, there are doors to the bedroom, nursery (not shown here)


and front room that used to be a bedroom.


More stairs continue up.


To a small room that was built as an open balcony/crow's next but later converted to a bathroom.


First floor landing from top of stairs. Doors, left to right: bedroom, front exhibition rooms/former bedroom & nursery.

Entrance Hall & Back Hall, Narryna

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Entrance hall, looking back towards main entrance. Larger image.

Narryna, Battery Point, Hobart. Other rooms are under the Narryna tag.


Entrance hall leads through to these steps down to a back hall. To the right is the back door. To the left, the kitchen and back stairs.


Back door, leading to courtyard.


Back stairs and kitchen (through door on right).


Upstairs to servants quarters and back entrance to bedrooms.

Back Hall, Upstairs, Narryna

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Stairs up from back hall. Larger image.

Narryna, Battery Point, Hobart. Other rooms are under the Narryna tag.


Top of the stairs.


Hall gives access to servants quarters on the right and continues through to dressing room.


From hall to dressing room.


Dressing room.


Door leads out to the main staircase.


Down to entrance hall and public/living rooms (breakfast room, drawing room & dining room). Up to bedrooms and nursery.

Laundry, Narryna and appliances

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Narryna, Battery Point, Hobart. (Other rooms are under the Narryna tag.)


Wash trough with washboard and mangle/wringer. More photos of mangle below.


Air-compressed washing machine, Wolter & Etching. More information on these.


These are your standard flat irons. Apply heat. Iron.

But these two are gas irons. Put heat inside. Some more information here (scroll down) and here.


Two lace/frill/fluting/goffering irons. (Two photos of each.) Some information on these here, here (scroll down) and here,  and some other examples here.


This one has a conveniently placed mobile phone for scale.


Finally a wooden washing machine. I can't find anything more about these. I put more photos of it here.