Visit us for a taste of old Darwin in the 1930s before aircon, using natural air flow breezes. See how people lived in those times.
Burnett House, Darwin
Location Details
Burnett House, Darwin
- Address:
4 Burnett Place, Larrakeyah NT 0820
- Open:
Monday to Saturday from 10am - 1pm beginning March - end November
- Phone:
- 0418 988163 ( or 08 89812848 )
- Email:
- admin@ntnationaltrust.org.au
- Entry Fees:
General entry $5.00 per person.
- What we offer:
Devonshire Teas are held regularly on the second and fourth Sunday afternoons in the beautiful Burnett house gardens throughout the dry season (May – September). Announcements of afternoon teas are regularly updated on our Facebook page (Burnett House NT). Go to TryBooking to book.
A unique feature of the house is the coloured compass inlay in the ground floor concrete slab. Burnett’s original plans and early photographs indicate a rainwater tank at the rear, near the laundry.
The house was damaged by Cyclone Tracy in December 1974. From about 1983 the house remained vacant and was boarded up to prevent access from itinerants until it was restored in 1988 for the National Trust. It was officially opened as the headquarters of the Trust by the Administrator, Commodore Eric Johnston, on 18 April 1989. It then became known as Burnett House, after its designer.
