Rouse Hill Estate

This Historic Houses Trust property was once the centre of a 1200 acre estate and contains possibly the earliest surviving dry weather garden in Australia. The garden today carries echoes of its evolution, particularly in the remnant forms of its paths and pleasure walks and structural elements. There are approximately 20 outbuildings which range from the impressive 1875 brick stable by the important architect J. Horbury Hunt to an early timber slab piggery; from a fancifully Victorian summer house to a vernacular timber cottage with corrugated iron annex.