Barrenjoey Head Lighthouse Wikipedia

The lighthouse reserve is about 10 hectares in area, the remainder of the headland being part of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. The Barrenjoey Headland is located at the northern end of Palm Beach, separated from the Sydney suburbs of Whale Beach and Palm Beach by a spit, with the lighthouse as the focal point on the headland. The natural character of the headland, curving into Broken Bay and Pittwater, best stain color for knotty alder to look reclaimed contrasts with the heavily urbanised backdrop of Palm Beach and similar areas to the south of Pittwater. The headland was first named as “Barrenjuee” by Governor Phillip in 1788 from the Aboriginal name for small wallaby. After many interpretations, the name is now “Barranjoey” on Admiralty maps and “Barrenjoey” on road maps. Broken Bay was once, due to the Hawkesbury River trade, a thriving port.

The semi-detached cottages essentially consist of four rooms about a central corridor with a service block and privy in the rear courtyard. Verandahs shade the chief rooms and a covered walkway links them with the service block at their rear. The light tower is perhaps the finest of Barnet’s towers because of its attractive sandstone construction. Barnet can also be said to have reintroduced pavilion entrances to the lighthouse design in NSW. It is a substantial and relatively intact 19th-century lightstation of outstanding architectural quality.

Completed in 1881, the current lighthouse is the third light constructed on the Barrenjoey headland in the Northern Beaches district of Sydney. The light is automated and operated by Transport for NSW; while the buildings and headland are managed by the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service as part of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. It was designed by James Barnet, the New South Wales Colonial Architect and built by Isaac Banks. The property is owned by Office of Environment and Heritage, an agency of the Government of New South Wales. The lightstation was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. Barrenjoey Lightstation is a significant intact example of a late Victorian lightstation designed by James Barnet, the NSW Colonial Architect in the period 1862–90.

You can write your own designs and color them with paint, or you can use a template to make the book look like it was hand-written by the artist. The frog designs are a little more elaborate than the frog patterns that we made in our previous book, but the frog patterns are always pretty easy to make. The printable patterns are ideal for outdoor use because they don’t take up too much space. You simply fold up the wood burning patterns and then put them on a piece of fabric to make a cool graphic cover for your photo’s. I’ve been using them on more than one occasion to create fun, festive photo’s. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales.

An oil room and corridor at the base of the tower provides access to the tower which internally features iron floors and stairs. It is connected to the head keeper’s cottage by a covered stair with a windbreak wall. The head keepers quarters and assistants quarters are built within a series of sandstone walls which give a compound like environment relatively protected from prevailing winds. The head keepers quarters feature verandah covered by the sweep of the corrugated iron clad roof, the decorative timber fretwork long gone. A large bay breaks the verandah at the northwestern corner in the Headkeepers quarters. The basement features a kitchen fireplace and courtyard enclosed by a massive rubble wall and with a privy in the southeast corner.