 A large early Victorian garden and shrubbery, laid out to compliment a gothic revival house belonging to the family of the important colonial pioneer and politician W. C. Wentworth.There appears little early documentation of the garden but it can be presumed to have been designed to complement the mid-19th century additions to the house and to have been established by the 1860s.Vaucluse House was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.