Andrew Town House

Andrew Town House is located at 122 Windsor Street, corner of Paget Street, Richmond, New South Wales. It is across the road from another house associated with the Town family, the home of John Town, a convict who arrived in the colony aboard the transport ‘Royal Admiral’ in 1800 at number 126.

The building, named for its association with Andrew Town, horsebreeder and land owner of Hobartville Estate has had a very colourful history. Town was born in 1840, the son of William and Mary Town and died in 1890 at the young age of only 49 years. Only a portion of the original building, an inn built by Town’s grandfather John Town before 1840 survives.

Extensive research on the building was carried out by the late Peter Rukin in 2003 and was published in his work ‘My ghost: a house and its memories’. The inn was originally a substantial two storey Georgian building built for John Town in about 1828 and named firstly as The King’s Head then the George IV. Later it was known as The Fat Sheep during the time of William Onus. Town inherited the building following the death of his grandfather in 1846.

The Georgian style two storey structure facing Windsor Street is a later addition by Andrew Town during the 1860s. According to Sam Boughton in his ‘Reminiscences of Richmond’ horse races were regularly held from Town’s house to the Black Horse Inn on the corner of Bosworth Street, a distance of 1500 metres.

Along with Toxana (located on the corner of East Market Street and Windsor Street) the house was used as student accommodation prior to buildings being completed on the grounds of Hawkesbury Agricultural College. Town’s house was known as No. 2 College as it accommodated the second batch of students enrolled in the new college. From 1906 it was also the home of pioneer of the Australian aircraft industry John George Percival and his wife Martha Jane Tate until Percival’s death in 1936.

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