alterations) (1879) Congregational Church, Hunters Hill Sydney Female Refuge, Glebe (1902) Ragged School, Harrington Street (1873) Agricultural Society Show – pavilions for Anderson & Co at Moore Park (1899) Scot's Church Manse, Sydney (1882) Equitable Permanent Benefit Building, Land and Savings Society Building (1886) "Southall", 88 Barney Street, Armidale (1886). Comparative places Comparable mansions include Tertius' father Anthony Hordern's Retford Hall designed by Edmund Blacket, Darling Point (demolished 1967) and Tertius' brother Samuel Hordern's Retford Park, Old South Road, Bowral, 1887, designed by Albert Bond. Glenworth, Victoria Street, Ashfield is an Italianate mansion with tower designed by G A Morell and a later example of suburban mansion originally built in a semi-rural setting in Sydney's inner west. Yaralla, Concord, is an Italianate house built -59 with tower. The Second Empire style is more commonly found in public and commercial architecture, including the Sydney Town Hall. Description Context Shubra Hall is situated within the grounds of Presbyterian Ladies College (PLC Croydon), which is located on the border and thus within both of the Ashfield and Burwood municipal local government areas, in the inner western suburbs, approximately 11 km from the city centre of Sydney. Shubra Hall Shubra Hall is a grand two-storey mansion dating from 1864, which is designed in the "Victorian Second Empire" architectural style. The centrepiece of a private secondary school campus since 1889 it is now surrounded by school buildings of various ages. The SHR listing encloses the original residential building in its garden setting and including its original stables building. The general form of Shubra Hall consists of the original two storey residential building facing east, which features well-detailed, high-ceilinged rooms designed for living and entertaining. On the ground floor there were two drawings rooms, a dining room and a breakfast room and on the first floor there were three large bedrooms with anterooms. On the rear, western side of the building are two service wings extending towards the west. The northern wing is considered to be part of the original 1869 design while the southern wing is thought to have been added by the Coghlan family in the 1880s.The northern wing held the original kitchen, provision rooms and laundry on the ground floor, with servants' bedrooms on the first floor. The house was finely detailed with costly materials and decorations. The brick walls are rendered inside and out. The exterior decoration includes moulded entablatures and rounded