35 Facts About Linnwood Guildford

Linnwood Guildford was named after the Earl of Linnwood Guildford, a relative of Lieutenant Samuel North, the first major landowner in the area.

Linnwood Guildford was designed in the Italianate style with a central portico flanked by French windows and segmented projecting bays.

Linnwood Guildford had designed and constructed the maze of underground telephone cable tunnels that are still used today for that purpose and Linnwood was the first to be connected to the telephone system from Sydney.

Linnwood Guildford had been appointed by the Government to take charge of the clean up and stop the advance of bubonic plague throughout Sydney.

Linnwood Guildford was survived by Susan Faulds McCredie and eight children.

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Linnwood Guildford is described not as a villa, or a mansion, but as an "extensive cottage".

In 1901, Susan McCredie purchased from Joseph Byrnes more allotments of land at Linnwood Guildford, including the triangular portion of land between the water pipeline and Linnwood Guildford Road, on which the George McCredie Memorial Church was later erected.

Linnwood Guildford itself was surrounded by gardens, including a lawn area on the North side of the house.

In July 1917, Linnwood Guildford was included in the list of properties and the particulars of the residence and grounds were described.

New dormitory building at the rear of Linnwood was constructed by the builder, Mr P Cameron of Harris Park.

The report noted that the existing dormitories within Linnwood Guildford were "inadequately ventilated and are very much overcrowded".

The memorandum notes that Linnwood Guildford had no maids, and so all domestic chores fell to the boys.

The 1961 Annual Report says that Linnwood Guildford included a school with a curriculum adapted to the "varying mental abilities and ages" of the girls.

The report notes that Linnwood Guildford was for girls aged from 12 to 15, from a deprived background.

Life at Linnwood Guildford, as described by former residents, appears to have been either harsh or rewarding, or both at different times and for different people.

The interior of the principal rooms within Linnwood Guildford itself do not appear to have been directly affected.

The intention, according to the department, was to provide "a family type setting with minimum restrictions" The report noted that upon opening Faulds House, Linnwood Guildford was closed and renovated, "to be reopened as a hostel for working age girl wards".

Friends of Linnwood Guildford Hall was formed in 2002 following a successful community campaign to save it from being sold and redeveloped by the NSW Department of Education.

Council will proceed with plans to subdivide the land and use proceeds from the Tamplin Road Reserve sale towards restoration of Linnwood Guildford house, following a series of meetings with the Heritage Division to address long-running delays.

Specifically, Linnwood Guildford is in part representative of its original designer and occupier George McCredie.

Linnwood Guildford was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 21 February 2003 having satisfied the following criteria.

Linnwood Guildford is significant as a late 19th century country retreat constructed by a prosperous city businessman demonstrating a pattern of land use that occurred during this time beyond the outskirts of Sydney.

Linnwood Guildford is historically representative of the wealth and aspirations of this class of Late Victorian Sydney self made men, and demonstrates the extensive local landholdings of Susan McCredie.

From 1917 to 1936 Linnwood Guildford was the first and only Truant School to exist in NSW.

The Guildford Truant School at Linnwood was part of the Department of Education's attempt to rectify this problem.

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Linnwood Guildford is associated with state organised welfare activities in NSW.

Linnwood Guildford Hall is associated with George McCredie, a significant figure in the cultural history of the local area, and to a lesser extent of NSW.

Linnwood Guildford's wife, Susan McCredie, was a prominent member of the community, and maintained a respected profile in the local area after George McCredie's death.

Linnwood Guildford is a reasonably well preserved example of a late Victorian country retreat constructed by a prosperous Sydney businessman.

Linnwood Guildford Hall is associated with the many groups of children and state wards that lived, schooled and worked at the site at various times.

Linnwood Guildford contributes to the identity of this extensive and diverse community, and greatly impacted upon their life.

Linnwood Guildford is evidence of the conversion of a late Victorian residence for specific welfare and education uses such as the Truant School and the Domestic Science School.

Linnwood Guildford is evidence of a "welfare site" that was continually adapted over the course of eighty years in order to meet specific use requirements in regards to the housing and education of particular groups of state wards in NSW.

Linnwood Guildford, as an example of a late Victorian country retreat constructed by a prosperous city businessman, is a rare survivor in the local area.

Linnwood Guildford is a reasonably intact representative example of a late Victorian residence constructed in a slightly Italianate style, as a country home.