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Heritage - Privately Owned Buildings
The region is steeped in history with statesmen, adventurers, larrikins and villains all having an association with the Macarthur region. Much of the history, heritage and culture can be experienced today by travelling to Macarthur and visiting its many celebrated heritage sites. Macarthur is fast becoming a vibrant tourist destination, renowned for its living heritage, adventure tourism and true Australian experiences.
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Appin Old Schoolhouse and Schoolmaster's Residence
Appin Road, Appin
Situated within the grounds of the Appin Public School and fronting onto the Appin Road, this solid sandstone building was built in 1867 as a school house and schoolmaster’s residence. Above the front entrance is a sandstone block inscribed with the words, ‘Appin Public School 1867’. At the rear of the building is another sandstone block above the door to the old classroom and hat room inscribed, ‘Class Room’.
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Bursill's Shop
292 Queen Street, Campbelltown
William Bursill opened this two-storey colonial Georgian sandstone building as a general store in 1842. William Fowler purchased the shop in 1850 and his extensions to the building to accommodate a post office can be clearly seen. The balcony is supported by turned timber columns and has cast iron lace panels to the ballustrading. Windows are twelve-paned, shuttered on the ground floor, while the entrance doors have semicircular fanlights above.
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Camden Park House
Camden Park Estate, Elizabeth Macarthur Drive, Camden
The building and design of Camden Park House which preoccupied the mind of John Macarthur in the last years of his life was begun by his sons, James and William, in 1832 and completed in 1835 a year after his death. Architect John Verge designed the mansion in the Palladian style. The interior detailing is particularly fine. The house stands on 388.5 hectares (960 acres) of the original 2,023.5 hectares (5,000 acres) granted to John Macarthur in 1805. Macarthur descendants still occupy Camden Park House.
The family burial ground, carefully established over the decades, is located nearby and is the last resting-place of John Macarthur and his direct descendants.
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Camelot
Kirkham Lane, Elderslie
Camelot stands on the site of explorer John Oxley’s Kirkham Mill. John Horbury Hunt designed Camelot for James White of Cranbrook in the late 1880s. It is constructed from brick and has a romantic silhouette of turrets, chimney stacks, gables, arched verandahs and projecting bays. Camelot was reportedly built with the winnings from Chester, a racehorse that won the Melbourne Cup in 1877, and was owned by James White.
Camelot has a fine brick stable with arched wooden ribbing, a brick smokehouse and an octagonal aviary. Today it is being lovingly cared for and will possibly be open to the public on a limited basis in the future.
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(Old) Campbelltown Post Office
261 Queen Street, Campbelltown
Designed by Government Architect James Barnet, the Telegraph and Post Office was opened in 1881. Local architect Alfred R Payten designed a later addition in the 1880s, the facade and clock tower. The Telegraph Office received messages in morse code until the Campbelltown Telephone Exchange was installed in the building in August 1913.
The building is now used for commercial purposes and can be viewed from the street.
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(The) Coaching House
298 Queen Street, Campbelltown
This two-storey pair of townhouses are separated by a wide coach drive with a fine pair of timber gates that opened to allow horse-drawn vehicles through to the stables at the rear. Bootmaker, Samuel Lovely sold the property to wheelwright Patrick McMahon in 1853.
Later owners included James Bocking, Thomas Gamble and Charles Hannaford, all of whom were Mayors of Campbelltown. Irish born Tom Gamble was a prominent storekeeper and auctioneer. Mayor Hannaford is remembered for bringing electricity to Campbelltown despite opposition at the time.
Can be viewed from the street.
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Cransley
104 Waminda Avenue, Campbelltown
Built in 1881 by John Knight, an alderman on the first Campbelltown Municipal Council, Cransley is a sandstone cottage with slate roof and decorative bargeboards. In 1918 Cransley Estate, then a large dairying property, was acquired under the Crown Lands Consolidation Act and subdivided as a Soldiers’ Settlement. Former owner nurseryman Bill Price planted many of the trees and shrubs in the beautiful gardens which surround Cransley.
The house and gardens can be viewed from the street.
Group inspections by appointment only. Phone Quondong for details 0246 458922.
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Denfield Villa
Tahmoor
This Victorian Georgian style building was erected circa 1858 and has been used for various purposes over the past 130 plus years. John Ashcraft conducted an inn under the name ‘The Australian Arms’ which ceased trading in 1867.
In 1872 Mr Ashcraft allowed two rooms in the building to be used for the first government school. A change of ownership to the Fieldhouse brothers of Campbelltown in 1876 brought about the name ‘Denfield Villa’ and in 1881 it was leased to the Department of Education as a residence for the teacher at Myrtle Creek School. From 1893 until 1902 members of the Fletcher family conducted the West Bargo/Cordeaux Post Office from Denfield.
Can be viewed from the street.
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