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Rouse Hill Estate is a heritage-listed homestead and estate off Windsor Road (356 Annangrove Road), Rouse Hill, City of Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia.Rouse Hill House and farm was the family home of Richard Rouse, the Colonial Superintendent of Public Works and Convicts at Parramatta.
Rouse Hill (/ ˈ r aʊ z /) 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 ...
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 ...
The Castle Hill convict rebellion was a convict rebellion in Castle Hill, Sydney, then part of the British colony of New South Wales.Led by veterans of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the poorly armed insurgents confronted the colonial forces of Australia on 5 March 1804 at Rouse Hill.
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
Late Procter & Gamble CEO Durk Jager's former Indian Hill estate is scheduled to hit the market later this month for $5.8 million, according to Julie Back, the listing agent and executive vice ...
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]