| The cottage ruin is located on parish portion 280, comprising 38 acres in the old crown reserve around Castlereagh township, which was acquired by Joseph Daniel Single in 1874 and retained by him until 1886. Single (1826-1900) was the third son of John and Sarah Single of Nepean House at Castlereagh. In his youth, he managed the single-family property Tellaraga in the Mudgee district. In 1856, he settled with his wife, Anne Lydia (nee Fraser), at Minnaville, neighbouring his father’s Nepean Park. Some 25 acres of portion 280 was sold to Robert Wisdom in 1886. A barrister in Sydney, Wisdom, probably leased the land to a local farmer. In 1897, the property was sold to Ernest E. Cabban, who established an orchard and probably built the pise cottage. Over the following century the property changed hands regularly – John McCabe (1903), Thomas A Wilson (1906), George McNickle (1908), and finally Samuel Fairey Sherwood and Charles Creswick Grice (1912), who seem to have leased it to a Mr Hammond and Mr Seaton. From 1932 the property was a dairy, initially owned by Andreas and Selma Holst and then Claude S. Grant (1941), Douglas W. Bloomfield (1947), and others until 1960 when River Sand and Gravel Pty Ltd bought it. The house is known to have been extant by 1932 and there is documentary evidence for a building at this location by 1912. |  |
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