Brush Farm, Colonial estate in Eastwood, Australia

Brush Farm is a colonial estate in Eastwood featuring a substantial stone mansion with timber details and a two-story cast iron veranda overlooking surrounding gardens and farmland. The grounds contain multiple heritage buildings and preserved garden areas from its original agricultural operations.

Gregory Blaxland established the property in 1807 and developed it into a vineyard that gained international recognition when it won a silver medal from London in 1823. This early success helped establish agricultural innovation in the colony.

The estate displays how European settlers farmed and built their homes through the preserved buildings and working gardens you can still walk through today. These structures show the daily choices people made when establishing new communities.

Brush Farm stands on Marsden Road in Eastwood, within the City of Ryde, which owns the property. The site is a community facility, exhibition and meeting venue, so access depends on the events booked there rather than on fixed daily hours. Confirm arrangements with the City of Ryde before travelling, and allow time for the stone steps up to the verandah door.

The name Brush Farm came from William Cox, who assembled over 200 hectares here from two 1794 grants to privates Zadoc Pettit and Thomas Bride. Cox was deported to England after misusing regimental funds, and his trustees sold the estate; D'Arcy Wentworth held 184 hectares before Gregory Blaxland bought it in 1807.