Evening all, It's good to see that, finally (!!) the old KENTWELL house at 244 Old Northern Road, Castle Hill is going to be restored. A few extracts from an article in today's Hills Shire Times, Tuesday 20th August, 2002 by Bev Jordan ... "The house is more than 170 years old and is one of the oldest surviving properties in the area. It was bought by Baulkham Hills Shire Council last year ... a Council spokesman said the building was a significant heritage item and a conservation management plan had been completed for the property ..." "About 16ha of land was granted to John TIERNAN in 1818. The following year he sold the land to John GOOD, the pound keeper at Seven Hills, who sold it on to John KENTWELL in 1823. It is not known when the house was built but it is believed to have been in around 1857 and was a typical worker's slab home with shingle roof. The land was passed on to John KENTWELL's son, John Robert KENTWELL, in 1886 and remained with the family until 1911 ..." Subsequent owners included Robert EDWARDS, Dr. Cecil PARKER, Dennis BUCKLEY (from 1915 to 1944 - and for many years it was referred to as Buckley's House), Lucy WANSBOROUGH lived there from 1944 to 1949, then the SMITH family (till 1974) before being sold to the FERGUSON family. Us locals can now look forward to watching the next phase ... Diane