Lilianfels is a heritage-listed former villa and holiday house and now luxury hotel located at 10-16 Panorama Drive, Katoomba in the City of Blue Mountains local government area of New South Wales, Australia.

The house was designed by Varney Parkes and was built in 1889 by Sir Frederick Darley, Chief Justice of NSW, as his mountain retreat.

[2] The property is now part of a resort and spa which provides accommodation, restaurant facilities and caters for special events, particularly weddings.

Sir Frederick Darley, the Chief Justice of New South Wales and Lieutenant General, had the homestead built in 1889 and named it after one of his daughters, Lilian, who died of typhoid at the age of 22.

The property was used for a summer residence and nearly every noted visitor to Australia including royalty accepted the Darleys' hospitality to enjoy the magnificent outlook.

In 1894 a social columnist visited the house and gave the following account: Yesterday we walked to "Look out Point" near which Sir Frederick Darley has built his Norwegian like villa Lilianfels.

The mountains are thickly wooded to their summits, and the great valleys which separate them look like immense undulating carpets worked in many shades of green.

It is in the attempt to portray this magnificent scene that Lady Darley, brush in hand, passes many hours of her summer holiday.

Sir Frederick comes up as often as his duties permit, the girls have their horses and carts so it is not surprising that life at Lilianfels can be made ever so pleasant.

George Begg Vickery and his family used Lilianfels as a summer abode for four years and then sold it to Albert Alexander Kemp (1864-1841).

[9] They held numerous fetes and fund raising activities on the property and invited friends and others to enjoy the breathtaking views.

Densely wooded, with a little clearing here and there; undulating in every part, and with a brooklet making music as it meanders along its course and with crags and peaks of varying outline and form.

The former pinetum or area defined as "ornamental trees and shrubs" consists of plantings of conifers, Arbutus sp., azaleas, camellias, swamp cypress (Taxodium distichum) and Prunus.

[1] The site comprises the house, kitchen, cottage and extensive gardens, all of which provide an attractive setting and have high aesthetic value for a complex which demonstrates the characteristics of a summer residence in the Blue Mountains.

The gardens and grounds of Lilianfels, although substantially altered, still contain some important elements of the original layout and demonstrate the key characteristics of the late 19th century summer estates developed in the Blue Mountains by wealthy and prominent citizens of Sydney.

The exotic trees, hedges and vistas to Lilianfels house are important to the understanding of the historical development of Echo Point.

The house is architecturally significant as the work of Varney Parkes, later government architect, in an early version of the Queen Anne style (Criterion F.1).

The house, kitchen block, detached cottage, mature garden and the prospect over Jamison Valley are highly valued for their aesthetic qualities (Criterion F.1).

The complex is important for the way it demonstrates the characteristics of summer residences built in the Blue Mountains in the late nineteenth century by prominent figures of New South Wales (NSW) society (Criterion D.2).