Enter via the hallway foyer and notice the intricate metal pressed ceilings. Grand formal lounge and formal dining rooms featuring fireplaces restored with Bundanoon sandstone and the original wide polished timber floorboards.

Continue through the sunroom towards a large family room and then into the spacious country kitchen with granite benchtops, modern appliances and a 'Metters' wood fired stove.

The laundry is huge with a storage area adjoining.

There are three bedrooms, two with open fires, and two bathrooms.

The front porch has a sandstone floor.

An age old garden with sandstone pathways and featured enclaves. A pristine history filled home on 3771 SQM with approval to subdivide for two additional blocks at the rear.

History

• Original grant of 669 acres to John Wait in 1837 when property called "Broulee".

• The two-storey double brick residence was reportedly built by Anglican rector of Berrima Rev Hyatt Wyatt.

• In 1862 the property was rented to the Sisters of the Order of St Joseph.

• In 1869 the rural property was sub-divided and "Kalaurgan House" was jointly acquired by landholder and developer Walter Morrice and Robert Pemberton Richardson Co-founder of Real Estate firm Richardson and Wrench

• Although a lease was not registered it's likely that the property was rented out in the 1870's

• In 1883 the building became St Joseph's convent and school.

• Mother Mary MacKillop went to Moss Vale in 1884 and in that year the building was opened as St Joseph's convent and school.

• Supposedly Mother Mary MacKillop lived at "Kalaurgan House"

• It is not clear when the single-storey weatherboard addition was constructed however it broadly covers the period 1850-1900.

• The property has had several owners in the last century as a residence as well as a boarding house and bed & breakfast establishment during this period the parcel of land was also used as a poultry farm and for market gardening.

• Sometime between 1966 and 1988 the name was changed to "Marlborough" - the name "Kalaurgan House" was re-instated about 1988.

Contact Philip Dwyer

RICHARDSON & WRENCH BOWRAL

PHONE: 02 4861 1466

MOBILE: 0439 467468

Email: philip.dwyer@randw.com.au

Web: www.rwbowral.ca.com.au

 

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