Macquarie Field House
historic site in New South Wales, Australia
Macquarie Field House is a heritage-listed former farm, private school and homestead and now residence at Quarter Sessions Road, Macquarie Fields, City of Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by James Meehan (first house, barn), James Hume (attrib: second and current house) and built from 1810 to 1843 by James Meehan (first house); Mr Burns (woodwork in second, current house). It is also known as Macquarie Field House and the Meehan remains; Macquariefield, Macquarie Fields and Macquarie Field. The property is privately owned. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
History
An initial 1809 grant of 45 hectares (110 acres) to James Meehan had expanded to 1,113 hectares (2,750 acres) (202 hectares (500 acres) of which were cleared) by 1820, 971 hectares (2,400 acres) in 1826, 672 hectares (1,660 acres) in 1877, approximately 167 hectares (412 acres) were in NSW Government ownership by 1944, the remaining area of open space today is not stated nor analysed. The current SHR curtilage area, plus land proposed in the application to be community open space, totals approximately 28.25 hectares (69.8 acres).
Meehan (1774–1826) was a middle-class Catholic Irishman whose flirtation with the Society of United Irishmen in 1796–98 led to his conviction as a member of a proscribed organisation, although he did not take part in the actual uprising (the 'Irish Rebellion') of 1798. As a result, the 25-year-old school teacher and surveyor arrived in Sydney in February 1800 on the convict ship "Friendship" to serve a life sentence. Because of his valuable experience as a surveyor in Ireland, Meehan was soon assigned to the Surveyor-General of the colony, at first Augustus Alt, but after 1801, Charles Grimes.
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