 Elizabeth Bay House is rare as one of the most sophisticated essays in the Greek Revival style favoured by John Verge.The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales.Elizabeth Bay House is a rare superlative example of a representative class of Greek Revival villas constructed by New South Wales' most fashionable architect, John Verge, for prominent colonial civil servants, pastoralists and merchants.