Thomas Barker Estate: Maryland & Lowe's Birling Conservation
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Thomas Barker Estate: Maryland & Lowe’s Birling 773-975 The Northern Road, Bringelly, NSW Conservation Management Plan prepared for the NSW Department of Planning and Environment via Macarthur Developments Pty Ltd February 2017 REF: 1425: CMP Issue 07 DRAFT Tropman & Tropman Architects Architecture Conservation Landscape Interiors Urban Design Interpretation 55 Lower Fort Street Sydney NSW 2000 Phone: (02) 9251 3250 Fax: (02) 9251 6109 Website: www.tropmanarchitects.com.au Email: [email protected] TROPMAN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD ABN 71 088 542 885 INCORPORATED IN NEW SOUTH WALES Lester Tropman Architects Registration: 3786 John Tropman Architects Registration: 5152 Tropman & Tropman Architects i Conservation Management Plan Ref: 1425:CMP Thomas Barker Estate: Maryland & Lowe’s Birling February 2017 Report Register The following table is a report register tracking the issues of the Thomas Barker Estate: Maryland & Lowe’s Birling Conservation Management Plan prepared by Tropman & Tropman Architects. Tropman & Tropman Architects operate under a quality management system, and this register is in compliance with this system. Project Issue Description Prepared Approved Issue To Issue Date Ref No. No. by by 1425:CMP 01 PRELIMINARY DRAFT Joanne Lester Lester Tropman 29th April Conservation Management Rogers Tropman Via Email 2015 Plan 1425:CMP 02 DRAFT Conservation Joanne Lester Lester Tropman 30th Sept Management Plan Rogers Tropman Via Email 2015 1425:CMP 03 DRAFT Conservation Joanne Lester Client August Management Plan Rogers Tropman Via Email 2016 Nica Javadi 1425:CMP 04 DRAFT Conservation Joanne Lester Client September Management Plan Rogers Tropman Via Email 2016 Nica Javadi 1425:CMP 05 DRAFT Conservation Joanne Lester Client 10th Management Plan Rogers Tropman Via Email February 2017 1425:CMP 06 DRAFT Conservation Joanne Lester Client 22nd Management Plan Rogers Tropman Via Email February Nica 2017 Javadi 1425:CMP 07 DRAFT Conservation Joanne Lester Client 23rd Management Plan Rogers Tropman Via Email February Nica 2017 Javadi Tropman & Tropman Architects ii Conservation Management Plan Ref: 1425:CMP Thomas Barker Estate: Maryland & Lowe’s Birling February 2017 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Conservation Management Plan for Maryland This Conservation Management Plan for Thomas Barker Estate: Maryland & Lowes Birling has been prepared for the NSW Department of Planning and Environment via Macarthur Developments Pty Ltd. The overall aim of this Conservation Management Plan is to review and update the existing documentation of the property and bring it into a Conservation Management Plan, investigate and analyse the physical evidence available to formulate a statement of cultural significance, and to provide management guidelines to enable this significance to be retained in future use and development. The main points of this study can be understood by reading the following sections of the report. Analysis of Documentary and Physical Evidence (Section 4.0) This study in brief concludes that Maryland and Birling is in fair condition. The physical alterations to the buildings can be understood. It is critical that any works at the site be documented and implemented in a way that allows for the retention in-situ of the maximum amount of existing significant fabric. Tropman & Tropman Architects iii Conservation Management Plan Ref: 1425: CMP Thomas Barker Estate: Maryland & Lowe’s Birling February 2017 Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..................................................................................................................................... ii 1.0 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Brief .................................................................................................................................................. 5 1.2 Study Area ....................................................................................................................................... 5 1.3 Methodology .................................................................................................................................... 6 1.4 Limitations........................................................................................................................................ 6 1.5 Author Identification ....................................................................................................................... 6 1.6 Terminology ..................................................................................................................................... 6 1.7 Previous reports, available information and background material .......................................... 6 2.0 DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE – HISTORICAL CONTEXT .............................................................. 17 2.1 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 17 2.2 More numerous than expected – inland Aborigines of New South Wales ........................... 18 2.3 John Dickson: A Favoured Immigrant ....................................................................................... 21 2.4 Thomas Barker – apprentice engineer to public figure ........................................................... 29 2.5 Thomas Charles Barker Esquire, Maryland, Bringelly 1863-1940 ........................................ 36 2.6 Ninian Alan Thomson – Maryland, company director’s retreat .............................................. 39 2.7 Elizabeth and Annette (Annie) Thomson – dairy farmers of Maryland ................................. 40 2.8 New owners for Maryland 2009-2013........................................................................................ 43 2.9 Select Bibliography....................................................................................................................... 44 2.10 An Extract from Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser Monday 6th July 1840 ........ 46 2.11 1847 Mapping of Dickson’s Holdings ........................................................................................ 47 2.12 Historical information on Birling & Dowdell’s Farm .................................................................. 48 3.0 PHYSICAL EVIDENCE .......................................................................................................................... 51 3.1 Periods of Development .............................................................................................................. 51 3.1.1 Pre European Settlement ............................................................................................................ 51 3.1.2 The Cow Pastures ........................................................................................................................ 51 3.2 Estate Landscape ......................................................................................................................... 56 3.3 Subject Site Setting ...................................................................................................................... 64 3.4 Subject Site – Thomas Barker Estate: Maryland ..................................................................... 68 3.5 Subject Buildings .......................................................................................................................... 75 3.6 Garden & Cultural Landscape .................................................................................................... 93 3.7 Archaeology .................................................................................................................................. 96 4.0 ANALYSIS OF DOCUMENTARY AND PHYSICAL EVIDENCE ................................................. 108 4.1 Analysis of Documentary Evidence ........................................................................................ 108 4.2 Analysis of Physical Evidence ................................................................................................. 126 4.3 Comparative Analysis ............................................................................................................... 128 Appendix B Owners of the Maryland Estate and Chronology of Ownership by Rosemary Broomham Appendix C Plans and Site Cross Sections by Various Surveyors Appendix D Lowes Creek Maryland Landscape & Visual Analysis by Inspire Urban Design & Planning. Tropman & Tropman Architects 5 Conservation Management Plan Ref: 1425: CMP Thomas Barker Estate: Maryland & Lowe’s Birling February 2017 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Brief This Conservation Management Plan for Thomas Barker Estate: Maryland & Lowes Birling has been prepared for the NSW Department of Planning and Environment via Macarthur Developments Pty Ltd. The overall aim of this Conservation Management Plan is to review and update the existing information and prepare a Conservation Management Plan, investigate and analyse the physical evidence available to formulate a statement of cultural significance, and to provide management guidelines to enable this significance to be retained in future use and development. This report follows the guidelines by Australia ICOMOS Burra Charter and The Conservation Plan by J. S. Kerr. 1.2 Study Area For the purposes of this report the place, as defined in the Burra Charter, is to be known as the subject site or study area. Refer to figures 1 to 11. 1.2.1 Subject Site The subject site is located at Lowes