Bronte House is an historic house in the Sydney suburb of Bronte. It is situated at 470 Bronte Road and is listed on the Register of the National Estate as well as having a New South Wales state heritage listing. Bronte House was originally designed by the Colonial Architect Mortimer Lewis, who set it on the edge of what is now known as Bronte Gully. Construction began circa 1838, but Lewis sold the house in 1843, when it was still incomplete, to the barrister Robert Lowe. Lowe completed the construction of the house and its gardens and named it after Lord Nelson, who was known as the Duke of Bronte (a town in Sicily). Lowe's wife Georgiana was a painter and painted a number of pictures of Bronte House. Source
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