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Property for sale | Beaumaris House, 7 13 Newcastle Street, Battery Point, Tasmania

To find out more please visit our website: https://www.knightfrank.com.au/proper.... Few properties within Hobart's exclusive Battery Point precinct can lay claim to the pedigree of "Beaumaris House" situated on 2 acres of land once held by William Sorell, Lieut. Governor of the Van Diemens Land colony between 1817-1825. Built during the years 1879-1880 in the Victorian Gothic Revival style of the time, "Beaumaris" was commissioned by Henry Llewelyn Roberts and his wife Mary Grant Roberts, both of whom made significant contributions to the Tasmanian community. "Beaumaris" is best remembered for the zoo Mrs Roberts founded in the grounds of her palatial home in 1895, which was open to the public and evolved to hold an internationally recognised collection of indigenous fauna until her death 26 years later in 1921. Among an impressively long list of her other achievements, Mary Roberts successfully bred Tasmanian devils in captivity for the first time and was elected a member of the Zoological Society in London in 1910. Prior to the advent of "Beaumaris Zoo", in 1867 accountant Henry Roberts with partners Kemp and Abbott founded what was to become a power house of Tasmanian agriculture. Initially trading as "Kemp, Roberts & Co" before rebranding as Roberts & Co during 1888 with Henry as Managing Director, the business went on to expand under the subsequent guidance of son Gerald Roberts, amalgamating with other firms during the 1950s to create a statewide enterprise which survives to this day. Please contact Jim Playsted on +61 437 222 600 with questions or to arrange a viewing.