By Jonathan Chancellor
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Tuesday, 26 March 2013: Darjeeling, an historic 1880s stone NSW Southern Highlands homestead, has been sold for $2 million to Phil Purnell and his wife, Stephanie.
It come with views to the north towards Mittagong and to the south over Retford Park, Burrawang and Moss Vale.
The stone homestead has two bedrooms downstairs and room for another two bedrooms upstairs but it's currently without a staircase.
The 56-hectare holding had been listed through Philip Barron at LJ Hooker Bowral.
It was sold by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia, the legal organization in use by Jehovah's Witnesses, who'd been willed it in 2004 by the late Jessie Crichton-Smith.
When auctioned in 1963 it had recently had 2000 pounds spent on improvements.
It comes with mixture of pasture, woodland and native forest, plus four dams and two creeks.
For much of its history, it has been owned by the Smith family who feature on the Old South Road website undertaken by Helen Erskine for her local genealogy club
Tuesday, 26 March 2013: Darjeeling, an historic 1880s stone NSW Southern Highlands homestead, has been sold for $2 million to Phil Purnell and his wife, Stephanie.
It come with views to the north towards Mittagong and to the south over Retford Park, Burrawang and Moss Vale.
The stone homestead has two bedrooms downstairs and room for another two bedrooms upstairs but it's currently without a staircase.
The 56-hectare holding had been listed through Philip Barron at LJ Hooker Bowral.
It was sold by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia, the legal organization in use by Jehovah's Witnesses, who'd been willed it in 2004 by the late Jessie Crichton-Smith.
When auctioned in 1963 it had recently had 2000 pounds spent on improvements.
It comes with mixture of pasture, woodland and native forest, plus four dams and two creeks.
For much of its history, it has been owned by the Smith family who feature on the Old South Road website undertaken by Helen Erskine for her local genealogy club
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