The Baker House was designed and built between 1964–66.
"Boyd said ‘it was like designing for Robinson Crusoe’. Aware that the house ‘would be the only man made thing to disturb the primeval calm of the bush’, he used locally quarried slate to produce a square building with curved stone walls scooping out its corners and linking with glazed walls.
A low pyramidal roof extended to cover an encircling verandah-cum-circulation space and rested on 12 stone cylinders, containing water tanks, tool sheds and a cubby hole. The spaces created by the curved walls provided for cars, a workshop and a play area, eliminating any visual detritus which might scar the rural landscape.
Service rooms and children´s cubicles were strung around a central courtyard. In the outer range of rooms were a schoolroom (in the best pioneer tradition), a library and a massive living hall, with an inner glass wall giving access to a courtyard planted with exotics and screened against insects.
Such a unique building in such a remarkable location speaks volumes for the courage of the client, the architect and builder"1
This house contains 3 double bedrooms and 2 single bedrooms, extensive interior and exterior living spaces, a small but serviceable kitchen and 4 bathrooms of varying sizes.
1 Geoffrey Serle, Robin Boyd: A life, MUP, 1995, p259