History

Islington, built in Regency style in 1847, was one of the first houses built in the dress circle of Hobart and earned its current name around 1899. Davey Street to which the property fronts was formerly known as "Holebrook Place" - an exclusive address in the class conscious Hobart town of the period. Interestingly, it was built by a hotel owner and over the years has been leased to a number of very prominent and dignified tenants. Then, as now, it has one of the most prime views of Mt Wellington that Hobart can offer.

The library houses a collection of works of Louisa Anne Meredith, an early settler who wrote of the colony and drew the local flora and fauna. An ancestor of the present owner Louisa Ann remains a prime influencer on the house and its contents.

With its acre of garden, its history, art and luxury, Islington is fittingly continuing in the direction its original owner, Sarah Hodgson, intended.