| Dame Eadith Walker Hospital | |
|---|---|
 Yaralla mansion, 2009 | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Concord West, New South Wales, Australia |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public Medicare (AU) |
| Type | Specialist renal dialysis unit |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Australia |
Building details | |
  Location in Greater Sydney | |
| Former names | Yaralla |
| Alternative names | Dame Eadith Walker Estate |
| Etymology | Eadith Walker |
| General information | |
| Type | Original use: residence; repurposed as a repatriation and convalescent hospital |
| Architectural style | Victorian Italianate |
| Coordinates | 33°50′23.86″S 151°5′56.18″E / 33.8399611°S 151.0989389°E |
| Construction started | 1851 |
| Completed | 1864 |
| Owner | Government of New South Wales via the NSW Health under The Walker Trusts Act |
| Landlord | Sydney Local Health District |
| Technical details | |
| Material | Sandstone |
| Floor count | Two |
| Grounds | 37 hectares (91 acres) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) |
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| Architecture firm | Colonial Architect of New South Wales |
| Other designers | George Nichols (Woodbine cottage) |
| References | |
| [1] | |
| Official name | Dame Eadith Walker Convalescent Hospital |
| Criteria | a., c., e., f., g. |
| Designated | 2 April 1999 |
| Reference no. | 00119 |
The Yaralla Estate, also known as the Dame Eadith Walker Estate and now home to the Dame Eadith Walker Hospital, is a heritage-listed hospital at The Drive, Concord West, City of Canada Bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Yaralla was the home of Eadith Walker and her father Thomas. The estate is historically significant as one of the last large nineteenth-century estates remaining in metropolitan Sydney.
In the 1860s, Thomas Walker commissioned the architect Edmund Blacket to design a home on the shores of the Parramatta River.[2] This Victorian Italianate mansion became the Walker family home. From 1893 to 1899, Eadith Walker built extensions that were designed by the architect John Sulman. A stables and coach house complex were also designed by Sulman at the same time. The entire estate is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register and the (now defunct) Register of the National Estate.[3][1]
Dame Eadith Walker DBE, CBE, who never married, died at Yaralla in 1937 after a long career devoting her life to the Australian Red Cross and a wide range of other philanthropic organisations.[4] Her estate was disposed of in accordance with the terms of her father's will, brought about by the Thomas Walker Trusts Act (1939), a portion of which was set aside to found the Dame Eadith Walker Convalescent Hospital and income from the remainder went to support the hospital, the Thomas Walker hospital and the Yaralla cottages built by Dame Eadith for elderly people in need.[5]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
nswshr-119was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Yaralla Mansion". Concord Heritage Society. Archived from the original on 29 April 2013.
- ^ The Heritage of Australia, Macmillan Company, 1981, p.2/23
- ^ MacCulloch, Jennifer (1990). "Walker, Dame Eadith Campbell (1861–1937)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 12. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ Joy, W. (1967). "Walker, Thomas (1804–1886)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 2. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 26 November 2017.