Samuel Cox Cottage

Located at Lot 1 Lagoon Road (24 Bathurst Street) Pitt Town, New South Wales, the 1876 timber slab cottage with modern additions and equestrian facilities overlooks Pitt Town Lagoon. Samuel Cox’s Cottage has local historical significance for its association with Samuel Cox, a one time alderman of Windsor Shire Council, and four generations of his family over a period of more than 100 years up to 1984.

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The collection of the Historic Houses Trust includes a sample of wallpaper from the building with the description:

The top of three layers of wallpaper and two layers of newspaper lining recovered in the one wallpaper sandwich from Samuel Cox’s Cottage, Pitt Town, NSW. The cottage is a timber slab hut, constructed in the late 1870s, by Richard Cox for his son Samuel just prior to his marriage to Mary. It was the second house built on land which was principally used for dairy farming. The property reamined in the Cox family until 1984.

The State Heritage Inventory includes a listing and descripton of the building in 2001.

Read more about Samuel Cox in his obituary dated 5 May 1939.

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