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Photograph (c) David Powell, 2005

Built early 1880's. 54 Hyatts Rd, Oakhurst (formerly Plumpton). Alternate address: 12 Hanna Place, Oakhurst.

Designed and built in the early 1880's by William Golding as a wedding gift to his bride, Miss Rosa Emma Cable. Owned by the Hanna family from 1916-1996 and now the residence of the Solomon Islands consul.

A large two storey brick late Victorian country mansion with a pyramidal hipped galvanised iron roof. The house has verandas on both floors, an oak staircase and a magnificent lead-light window imported from Ireland. The house is square in plan with an unusually raised clerestorey at the ridge flanked by two large chimneys.


Sources:
Blacktown City Sun, 9/9/2003
NSW Heritage Office Website, http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au