Drumoyne House -DEMOLISHED

At a glance

• Name: Drummoyne House (also written Drumoyne), named after the Wright family home at Drumoyne on the Clyde in Scotland; the house gave its name to the suburb of Drummoyne
• Built: late 1850s, a large stone mansion on the Parramatta River opposite Hunters Hill (Museums of History NSW)
• Owners: merchant William Wright (1807–1889) and his wife Bethia, née Roberton (c.1817–1891). Wright retired from business in 1856 and in October that year bought 61 acres on the river, adding more land in the 1860s (Museums of History NSW)
• Subdivision: “Drummoyne House and Grounds Estate … residence of the late Wm. Wright”, auctioned on the ground by Richardson & Wrench on 10 March 1894 (NLA sale plan)
• Later life: various owners and tenants, then divided into flats in the 1940s
• Demolished: 1971. Survivors include a carved kauri window cornice (now Museums of History NSW), the statue of Flora (City of Canada Bay Civic Centre) and sandstone steps and balustrading near the river

Sources

• Museums of History NSW, “Drummoyne House window cornice”: https://mhnsw.au/stories/general/drummoyne-house-window-cornice/
• Museums of History NSW, “Drummoyne House remembered…”: https://mhnsw.au/stories/general/drummoyne-house-remembered/
• National Library of Australia, Drummoyne house and grounds estate sale plan, 1894: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230169309