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Rouse Hill Estate is the largest and most complete publicly owned physical record - in the form of buildings, furnishings, artefacts and landscape relationship - of the occupancy and culture of a European-Australian family, encompassing the tastes, fortunes, and endeavours of seven generations from the early 19th century to the late 20th century.
Rouse Hill (/ˈɹaʊ̯z/) is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Rouse Hill is located in the Hills District, 43 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and 19 kilometres north-west of the Parramatta central business district. It is in the local government areas of The Hills Shire and City of ...
Rouse Hill House: 356 Annangrove Road, Rouse Hill: Georgian: 1822: HHA [6]: page:30 [101] Saumarez Homestead: 230 Saumarez Road, Armidale: Federation Edwardian: 1888–1906: NSW SHR: 01505: NTA [102] Sefton Hall: Church Lane, Mount Wilson Queen Anne Federation 1910–1912 NSW SHR: MW019 Shirley Retreat and Garden: Holts Flat: Federation Bungalow;
The Water Lane, Rouse Hill, The Hills Shire, New South Wales, Australia Coordinates 33°39′53″S 150°54′50″E / 33.6648°S 150.9139°E / -33.6648; 150
The actual possession of the land had taken place a few years previously, as the Sydney Gazette had first mentioned Rouse Hill on 27 November 1813, and the homestead was begun soon afterwards. It took a few years to build and was a two-storey, twenty-two room house, which has been occupied by members of the Rouse family ever since. [1] [3] [4] [5]
The 690-hectare (1,700-acre) Box Hill estate, a property on the north-eastern side of Windsor Road from Rouse Hill, was granted to Robert Fitz in 1816. [1] [3] On the nearby Rouse Hill estate, Richard Rouse built Rouse Hill House from 1813 to 1820 using convict labour. [1] [2]: 5 [3]
Rouse had occupied his grant from 1813, although the official grant was not made until some time later. [1] The site containing the former Royal Oak Inn [a] was originally part of a 15-hectare (36-acre) grant to Charles Davis on 13 January 1818. (Portion 80 in the Shire of Baulkham Hills, Parish of Castle Hill). It was bounded by Thomas Kelly's ...
Residential land sizes range between 450 and 600 square metres (4,800 and 6,500 sq ft). Noted for its easy access to Rouse Hill Town Centre, Stanhope Gardens and North-west T-way. Old Homeworld Display Village - Known as being originally the first 'New Homeworld', an estate of various display houses for aspiring brand new home buyers