Pavilion opened in 2023 at Carrick Hill for visitors to art-treasure manor house, gardens in the Adelaide foothills
The new pavilion, with a restaurant and events space, opened in 2023 at the Carrick Hill estate in the Adelaide foothill, with its Tudor manor house and gardens attracting more than 150,000 visitors in the year before it opened.
A contemporary pavilion was opened in 2023 with views of the city, sea and views of the manor house from the Carrick Hill estate, attracting large nubers of visitors at Springfield in the Adelaide foothills.
Ashley Halliday Architects designed the $7 million building on elevated land near the existing Carrick Hill carpark. The pavilion overlooked the nearby original home and nearly 40 hectare estate once owned by Edward and Ursula Hayward and designed by architect James Irwin in 1937.
The pavilion was surrounded by new landscaping and had views across the estate’s well-established gardens, eight kilometres from the Adelaide city centre. It was to have a 75-seat casual restaurant to be operated by the Favaro Group: the family behind Chianti and Bar Torino in Hutt Street, Adelaide city. The group would also run an events space seating 200 and able to host year-round events like weddings, corporate gatherings and public talks.
The project received $3 million in federal government funding, $1 million from the South Australian government funding and $3 million raised by the Carrick Hill Development Foundation. A new visitor hub and expanded shop would take over the space vacated by the old café, run by Habel Catering, in the nearby house museum.
Opening the new pavilion, South Australian government arts minister Andrea Michaels said that Carrick Hill was a cherished destination for art and nature lovers, with more than 150,000 visitors taking advantage of its offerings in the previous year.
Carrick Hill manor house, with a Tudor interior holding art and furniture treasures, was a bequest to the people of South Australia from the Haywards. The South Australian government accepted the bequest in 1983 and the Carrick Hill Trust Act was enacted in 1985. Carrick Hill was officially opened to the public by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986.
Another aspect of the Carrick Hill estate was its Children’s Story Book Trail follows a track through the expansive gardens, weaving past ponds and through groves of trees, celebrating stories like Wind in the Willows, Toad of Toad Hall and Three Billy Goats Gruff. It includes a Hobbit House from J.J.R.Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
