Hawkesbury People & Places
Bligh House
House name
Also known as Cleary’s Cottage, this house is located at 14 Hall Street, Pitt Town New South Wales.
Source: NSW State Heritage Inventory
Reference: https://www.hms.heritage.nsw.gov.au/App/Item/ViewItem?itemId=1740020
Bligh House constructed about 1882 is an attractive and fairly intact example of a Victorian Italianate house. Among its features are the fine detailing of the gabled front with its protruding bay. The house is well sited to enjoy views across the former Bligh farm and is a prominent element in the streetscape.
The house was described by Hubert Architects, Heritage Futures and Terry Kass in Association in the Heritage Review in 2001.
Bligh House is an attractive Victorian Italianate house facing north to take in views across the former Bligh Farm towards Wilberforce. The house has a hipped roof with a projecting gable on the left side of the north elevation. A bullnose verandah runs across the remainder of the north elevation. The roof of the house is corrugated steel and the walls are rendered. A chamfered bay with a steeply pitched ripple iron roof fills the gable front. The windows in the bay are double hung in three centred arched openings. The springing point for the arch is marked with a continuous moulding and the arches have rendered keystones. The moulded sill runs around the bay and there are rendered panels below. The gable itself is embellished with dentilated barge boards. The front door has a toplight and a dentilated transom.
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