Paddington House by Ken Woolley REVISITED
Ken Woolley’s Paddington House, completed in 1980, is the smallest of the architect’s three Sydney homes, and arguably his most romantic. It is a love letter to his second wife, Virginia Braden Woolley.
Perched on a ridge in Sydney’s Paddington, looking north towards the harbour, the house marked a new beginning for Woolley, and for the inner-eastern suburb of Paddington, then enjoying a wave of gentrification as artists and other architects of note moved in from the outer garden suburbs.
Virginia had found the precipitous site on a service lane, excised from a larger estate. It was Ken’s chance to test new ideas for
