Toodyay Manor on Stirling Terrace was originally the ''Newcastle Hotel'' in

Toodyay, Western Australia Toodyay (, nys, Duidgee), known as Newcastle between 1860 and 1910, is a town on the Avon River in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, north-east of Perth. The first European settlement occurred in the area in 1836. After flooding i ...

. It was built in 1862 for Joseph T. Monger on

Pensioner Guard The Pensioner Guards were English military personnel who served on convict transportation ships en route to the Swan River Colony between 1850 and 1868, and were given employment and grants of land on arrival. Their initial employment lasted for ...

lots S8 and S10, first allocated to guards Hackett and Smith. Hackett's (Pensioner) Cottage (fmr) was not demolished as the land was developed and has survived. On the site Monger built a hotel and a steam mill. The hotel was licensed in 1863 as the Newcastle Hotel. In 1870 Monger transferred the licence to J.G. Findell. In 1872 Ebenezer Martin took over the licence; he was replaced in 1874 by Thomas Donegan who only held the licence for a year before handing it on to W.G. Leeder. In 1877 Leeder became the owner of the property. The site was developed further in the late 1890s with the construction of a pair of parapeted fronted shops abutting the hotel at 84 Stirling Terrace. The mill ceased operations in 1908, but was later converted to a skating rink for the townspeople and was also used as a picture theatre, with the operator - Palace Picture Shows - bringing its own electric lighting plant. A cottage (brick with hipped iron roof) was constructed in 1910 on 86 Stirling Terrace adjoining the shop pair. In 1921 architect G. Pickering of Perth undertook some restoration of the hotel. The proprietor at that time was W.J. Murphy. Additions were also undertaken in 1947.

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