Tanilba House

Sited on the shoreline of Port Stephens, surrounded by koala habitat, Tanilba House, together with its small gaol, elaborate stone gazebo and 170 year-old olive tree, is open to the public.

The building has had many owners in the intervening one 160 years.

Those lucky enough to visit the house may catch a glimpse of the resident ghost. First sighted around 1900, the ghost, a young woman with long brown hair and floor-length dress, is believed to be that of Elizabeth Gray, a governess who lived there in the 1830s.

She has been seen gazing through the French windows, at the doorway to the front parlour, and sitting on the end of a bed.