The boathouse was given to Marr as a wedding present and was originally installed at Penders. Too dangerous to use in the surrounding Bithry Inlet it remained on land until the handback of the Penders site to NPWS. Since then … Read More
Drawing by Marr of the Penders site with Barn. In November 1985, in the the pages of Architecture Australia, Jennifer Taylor admitted Roy and Betty Grounds’s Barn at Penders into the pantheon of Australia’s finest buildings. Today this unusual little … Read More
This delightful goanna feeding tray is both sculptural and functional. Located at Penders goanna feeding was a daily ritual. In the background you can see a sculpture created by Roy Grounds, and the goanna in the foreground is atop of … Read More
Marr and Family picnicking at the dam on Penders.
The Barn at Penders Designed by Marr’s father, Sir Roy Grounds. The “Barn” represents one of the most revealing buildings of Grounds’s career, and clearly displays the architectural philosophies that under-pinned his architecture – his belief in the logic of geometry … Read More