Built in the 1860s with a stunning rendered façade, Victorian Georgian columns and ornate detailing, then remodelled with Art Deco curves in the 1940s and given a boxy fitout in the s – although still lovely – there was no sense of continuation of architectural form or function in the Heritage manor.
Once owned by ex-pat thespians, Bill and Angela Martin, who moved to Beaumaris in the s because of the artistic reputation of the suburb, Talbot House even had a theatrette installed in the attic to host plays and parties put on by the Beaumaris Theatre Group. Talbot House was the beating heart
