Shubra Hall is a heritage-listed former semi-rural suburban estate and mansion residence and now administration building for school purposes at Boundary Street in the Sydney suburb of Croydon, Municipality of Burwood, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Albert Bond and built from 1869 to 1888 in the Victorian Second Empire architectural style. It is also known as Shubra Hall, including stables and garden, Presbyterian Ladies College, PLC Croydon and Hordernville. The property is owned by the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney and was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 19 December 2014. History Shubra Hall is located on part of granted to Captain Thomas Rowley on 9 August 1803 (Burwood Estate) and on part of granted to Augustus Alt, Surveyor General to the Colony (Ashfield Park Estate). These two grants covered most of Burwood and Croydon. Thirteen acres and two roods of land were consolidated under a single Certificate of Title on 4 August 1868 in the name of Anthony Horden III, draper, in the City of Sydney. Tertius, as he was known, owned the fabulous Hordern department store in Sydney with his brother Samuel. Their father noted that Tertius "has bought a farm at Ashfield for A£1200 – he has agreed to pay £500 cash, the rest on mortgage." He moved out of his cottage near his father's home at Darling Point and lived initially in the stables at Croydon 'in order to supervise the work more closely' including the fencing of of land. This suggests that the stables pre-date the main house, however there are no known original design drawings for house, stables or garden. The design of "Shubra Hall" has been attributed to architect Albert Bond, who achieved prominence as City Architect between 1873 and 1877, and was long associated with the Hordern brothers. He designed the Anthony Hordern and Sons department store building in the Haymarket and their New Palace Emporium on Brickfield Hill, as well as Sam's home at Bowral. He also designed the school buildings adjoining Shubra Hall for PLC in 1889–90. Shubra Hall was a "Villa Garden", based on the notion of "a country mansion built together with farm-buildings and occupied by a person of some position and wealth". The architectural style of the residence is identifiable as "Victorian Second Empire" and unusual for being found in a domestic residence. H. G. Woffenden discussed the design in his