Loggan Rock: The Most Bizarre Home In Sydney
Arguably the most bizarre home in Sydney (they say), Loggan Rock was built by an equally bizarre architect named Alexander Stewart Jolly in 1929.
Aside from building bizarre abodes, Jolly was a part-time poet and writer of children’s fiction, whom allegedly cut off his own finger in punishment for his bad drinking habits.
So really, what could you expect from a curious man, but a curious home?
Logan Rock is actually three homes in one, with the oldest part being a log cabin. The second part is actually a tower based off of a Scottish castle. Two bedrooms are located within the tower. The third part of the home, was actually built in the 50s and has nothing to do with Jolly himself. So, it’s not as interesting.
The home’s current owners Regina and Gerry Sutton bought the home for $2.05 back in 2003, and though they love and appreciate the history and originality of their home, they admit that it comes with a few setbacks:
“The cabin, as romantic and special as it is, has no facilities and is exposed to the external world. We share it with a possum family and several other critters that sneak in to party and leave their droppings everywhere.”
Hehe, well yes, droppings are very romantic.
As for the stone tower, only the top storey - housing the Suttons’ bedroom - is habitable. Potential guests are usually shocked when they discover the only access to the second bedroom is via a trapdoor in the master bedroom. “You have to slide on your butt down a steep flight of the carved stone steps,” Sutton laughs, pulling up the trapdoor to the dungeon-like guest quarters. “We don’t have too many people wanting to stay the night.”
I wouldn’t mind! I think trapdoors are cool. Regular doors are overrrated. Of course, how do you move furniture in and out, I wonder?
Via | SMH
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