This gorgeous renovated Victorian mansion built by the owner's great-great grandfather, a former Hobart mayor, sits high on the Glebe hillside a short (steep!) walk from town. Each room is different – the loo with a view in the Verandah Room is a winner – and there are three cottages and two ultra-modern pavilions sprinkled through the meticulously maintained parterre gardens.

The cooked breakfast is full of Tasmanian produce.


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1. Hobart Convict Penitentiary

0.19 MILES

The courtrooms, cells and gallows at 'the Tench' had a hellish reputation in the 1800s, and every convict in Tasmania passed through here. The barracks…

2. Theatre Royal

0.36 MILES

Hobart’s prestigious (and very precious) Theatre Royal has been host to bombastic thespians since 1837, and despite a major fire in 1984, it remains…

3. Queen’s Domain

0.4 MILES

In Hobart's early days, the leafy hill on the city’s northern side became the governor’s private playground, upon which no houses were to be built. Today…

4. Gasworks Cellar Door

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If you want Tasmania's far-flung wine regions distilled into one experience, duck into the Gasworks Cellar Door, which is effectively a museum of wine and…

5. Cenotaph

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6. Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

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Incorporating Tasmania's oldest surviving public building, the Commissariat Store (1808), TMAG features Aboriginal and colonial relics and an excellent…

7. Allport Library & Museum of Fine Arts

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The State Library is home to this excellent collection of rare books on the Australia-Pacific region, as well as colonial paintings, antiques, photographs…

8. Town Hall

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Duck your head into the fabulously lavish lobby of Hobart's stately Town Hall. It was built in 1864–66 in a style based on Rome’s famous Palazzo Farnese…