Rouse Hill House and Farm

Rouse Hill House and Farm is one of Australia's most significant historic properties, outstanding for its unique assemblage of artefacts, furnishings, buildings and original colonial garden. It also provides the most complete document of continuous family occupancy of a country house in New South Wales.

Visiting Rouse Hill House and Farm can be likened to leafing through three-dimensional diaries, each recording the lives of the family who have lived there, and adding to its richness. Take a tour of the estate’s house, its grounds and outbuildings and discover its extraordinary collection of objects, accumulated over 180 years of its family’s life.

BRIEF HISTORY

The free settler Richard Rouse began clearing his farm at Rouse Hill in 1813 and his descendants lived there for six generations. All but 31 acres of the original 1,200 acres of the original estate remains.

At the heart of the estate is a Georgian sandstone house, built between 1813 and 1818 by convict labourers assigned to Richard Rouse. The house still stands today, with its historic interiors and furnishings surviving largely in tact as an essentially undisturbed record of the family’s long history. The rambling country garden, the place for many family picnics and croquet mornings, is one of the earliest surviving European gardens in Australia, with an intact layout.

EVENTS

In addition its regular tours of the property, Rouse Hill House and Farm also runs a lively range of events to appeal to families, special interest groups and all ages.

These events include specialist tours of the collection, school holiday activities as well our regular family fun event known as Earn Your Tucker where you feed the cows and chickens, collect the eggs, grind corn and pump water.

OPENING HOURS: Wednesday to Sunday 9.30am - 4.30pm.
Closed Good Friday and Christmas Day.

Bookings are advisable.

Clothing and footwear suitable for a rural ramble are strongly advised.

General $8, Concession/Child $4 , Family $17, Group rates on request. Members of HHT free.