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Seymours House
Seymours House is a heritage-listed residence and now offices at 24 Bosworth Street, Richmond, New South Wales, Richmond, City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History Seymours House was built 1840s. It is named after a family who had owned the property. Prior to the 1970s, the house was converted into flats and stripped of many original details, but was subsequently significantly restored. It has now been converted to commercial offices. Description Seymours House is a late Georgian stuccoed brick townhouse, five bays wide, and originally covered by a bellcast iron verandah roof. It features shuttered twelve paned windows and an original central front door with elegant sidelights and fanlight. A slate hipped roof and service wing extend at right angles to the rear. Heritage listing Seymours House was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond, New South Wales
Richmond is a town in New South Wales, in the local government area of the City of Hawkesbury. It is located 19 metres above sea level on the alluvial Hawkesbury River flats, at the foot of the Blue Mountains on the Cumberland Plain. It is about 65 km by road from Sydney and about 78 km by road from Lithgow. History The Darug people were the Aboriginal peoples to the area in 1788. The area was originally explored by British settlers in 1789 and the nearby eminence to the west of the Hawkesbury River was known by them as 'Richmond Hill'. The name was given by Governor Arthur Phillip, in honour of Charles Lennox, the third Duke of Richmond who was Master General of Ordnance in the Pitt administration. The local area was the third area to have European settlement in Australia after Sydney and Parramatta. The first 22 European settlers came to the area in 1794. They came to farm a total of in what is now Pitt Town Bottoms. They needed good farming land to help overcome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |