Key to the front door - it could only be open and locked from the inside. 

Built at 'very considerable expense', Elizabeth Bay House was once the finest house in the colony, set within a garden of the most remarkable extravagance and fancy. Yet it tells a familiar Sydney story: of ambition and passion over-stretched, of riches to ruin. The father's debts were taken over by the son - however he banished his parents from the house. 

The Australian Cedar joinery is finely moulded and finished simply with wax polish.