Broughton House, Parramatta, Colonial heritage site in Parramatta, Australia.
Broughton House is a manor built in the early 19th century in Parramatta with Georgian architecture. It retains its original windows, doors, and interior details that show how colonial houses were built and designed in Australia.
The land was granted in March 1791 to two HMS Sirius seamen, Robert Webb and William Reid, and later absorbed into Samuel Marsden's Newlands estate. Police Magistrate Pieter Laurentz Campbell bought parcels in 1837 and 1838 and had the two-storey house built by 1 February 1839, possibly to John Verge's design. Jane Marsden repurchased it that February, and it later served as a school and a nursing home before its 1999 heritage listing.
The house carries several names from its past uses: Newlands, Bowden House, Parramatta Convalescent Home and Parramatta Nursing Home. It was built for Pieter Laurentz Campbell, Parramatta's Police Magistrate from 1836 to 1839, who borrowed money from William Lawson to fund it. The Campbell family lived there only about a year before Jane Marsden, daughter of the Reverend Samuel Marsden, bought it back in February 1839.
Broughton House stands at 43a Thomas Street in Parramatta, on land that once formed part of Samuel Marsden's Newlands grant on the north bank of the Parramatta River. The building now operates as a nursing home, so the interior is not open to the public; the State Heritage Register listing of 1 October 1999 protects the fabric. Visitors can view the exterior from Thomas Street.
The land beneath Broughton House was granted in March 1791 to two HMS Sirius seamen, Robert Webb and William Reid, as sixty-acre farms; huts were built, two acres cleared, and they received food, seed, tools, livestock and medical care, with their assigned convicts supplied from public stores for a year.
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