Stone wharf, walls, path and setting
Stone wharf, walls, path and settingBetween Bayside Drive and Lime Kiln BayLot 1, DP 793262; Lot 45, DP 237063; Lot 26, DP 232089
Stone house “The Hermitage” (remnant) and setting
Lot 3, DP 793262 Heritage Item – Georges River LEP 2021, Schedule 5 Hurstville Historical Society Heritage Register No. 40 Nestled above the leafy expanse of Heinrich Reserve, The Hermitage stands as a rare and evocative remnant of Lugarno’s early residential architecture. Sometimes referred to as the Chislett House, this sandstone dwelling is one of the suburb’s original homes, offering a tangible link to the late 19th-century settlement of the area. Constructed in 1892 by George Edward Chislett, a Newtown bootmaker, the house was built from coursed rusticated sandstone quarried directly from one of two wells sunk on the property. Its original form featured a corrugated iron roof, decorative sandstone lintels, finials, and chimneys, reflecting the craftsmanship and stylistic preferences of the period. Although the house underwent significant alterations by 1983—including the enclosure of its verandahs—many of these architectural details remained intact at that time. Further modifications have occurred since. The property’s layered history includes the addition of a weatherboard house in 1909 for Mr Chislett junior, and its transformation into a thriving nursery business. Known successively as Craig’s Nursery and Martin’s Nursery, the site retained the name The Hermitage, proudly displayed on its gate. The Chisletts were also noted flower growers, supplying stock to city stores, a reflection of the area's early semi-rural character. The Hermitage is documented in several key heritage sources: A Photographic Guide to Architecturally and Historically Significant Buildings in the Municipality of Hurstville (1983), Item No. 97 LTO Primary Application 27879 Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012, Schedule 5 (previous listing) Its enduring presence and elevated setting overlooking Heinrich Reserve contribute to its aesthetic and historical value, making it a significant part of Lugarno’s architectural and cultural landscape.
House and setting, “Glenlee”
House and setting, “Glenlee”80 Boronia ParadeLot 1, DP 10359Glenlee dates from 1910.The Lugarno Early Settler Precinct Landscape Conservation Area was added to the Register of the National Trust in 2019, which includes the Glenlee property.[1]A 12-month Interim Heritage Order was approved on 21 January 2022 by the Minister for Environment and Heritage, preventing development of the site during that period. The Minister requested that NSW Heritage pursue the listing of Glenlee on the State Heritage Register.On 17 February 2022 Georges River Local Planning Panel acknowledged the heritage significance of Glenlee and unanimously recommended that Council support the listing of Glenlee as a local heritage item on the Heritage Schedule of the Georges River LEP 2021, and support the State listing of Glenlee.Glenlee was again on the market in March 2022.[2]In June 2022 Council advised residents that the DA for 31 residential allotments had been withdrawn and the appeal in the Land and Environment Court had been discontinued.[3]In July 2022, it was stated that the Heritage Council of NSW was to consider listing Glenlee on the State Heritage Register.[4] This did not transpire.St George Leader 17 August 2022, p18 reported on further measures taken by Georges River Council to preserve the site.The property was again offered for sale in February 2023 for $10 million. The residents’ group wanted the property put into public ownership.[5][1] Sun-Herald 26 February 2023, p18.[2] OFF News, issue 3, March/April 2022.[3] OFF News, issue 6, June/July 2022.[4] St George Leader 20 July 2022, p7; however the same article stated that the DA was being pursued.[5] Sun-Herald 26 February 2023, p18.
Lugarno Water Pumping Station
Lugarno Water Pumping StationCorner of Forest Road and Cypress DriveLot 21, DP 239902The Lugarno Water Pumping Station is on the corner of Cypress Drive and Forest Road (Lot 21, DP239902). It was built for the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board. The Lugarno pumping station was constructed in 1945. It is an example of small electric water pumping stations constructed in Sydney from the late 1940s. The construction of the station is associated with the development of the water supply to the local area. The station is an element of the historic built environment of the local government area of Hurstville, and its use and age provides a focus for an understanding of the development of the post-Second World War era of Sydney's southern suburbs north of the Georges River. The significant item is the pumping building.The pumping station is a small brick-built structure, which has been significantly altered over the years. These modifications include a new hipped Colorbond roof, brick infill of the original concrete framed windows, new doors, and other brick accretions. Original fabric includes the brick walls and engaged piers, brick vents to the upper courses of the walls, and the reinforced concrete substructure. There is a small modern electricity substation adjacent the north boundary. The original design of the building provided for a small brick built structure approximately (16 ft. (4.8 m.) by 31 ft.(9.4m.) with three concrete framed windows on the north and south walls, an entrance on the east elevation fitted with a roller shutter door, and a flat reinforced concrete roof fitted with two steel ventilators. The plant room floor was of reinforced concrete. The electrically driven plant was originally fitted with two Harland horizontal electrically-driven pumps. Two new Harland pumps were installed in 1963. Also in 1963 the original 6-in. suction main was amplified with a new 12-in main. The delivery main arrangement was similarly altered. The facility has been recently upgraded and the pumping units again replaced. The pumping draws water from Woronora Dam and Penshurst reservoir pumping to the Lugarno reservoir (built 1956).It is listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Georges River Local Environmental Plan 2021 and was previously listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012.
Convict Road
Convict RoadNorthern side, end of Forest RoadLots 8 and 9, DP 29596; Lot 181, DP 752056A stretch of convict-built road on the northern side at the end of Forest Road, was listed on the 2012 Hurstville LEP as of local significance. Lot 8, DP 29596.
Stone shed and ferry wharf slipway
Stone shed and ferry wharf slipwaySouthern side, Forest RoadLot 8, DP 29596A stone shed and ferry wharf slipway at the southern end of Forest Road, Lugarno, was listed on the 2012 Hurstville LEP as of local significance. Lot 8, DP 29596.
Cottage “Killarney” and setting
Cottage “Killarney” and setting66A Moons AvenueLot 1, DP 506036No 66a Moons Avenue, Lugarno, known as ‘Killarney’ is not visible from the street. Lot 1, DP 506036.It was built in the early 1930s by Sam Buttle.In 1987 a demolition order placed on the property by Hurstville Council, in keeping with its waterfront code, was lifted when Aldermen viewed the property from the river and saw its potential for restoration.See Barnham, Glenyss, Riverside Reflections, memoirs of Lugarno, p73-76.It is listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Georges River Local Environmental Plan 2021 and was previously listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Kogarah Local Environmental Plan 2012.
Memorial Obelisk
Memorial ObeliskCorner of Ponderosa Place and Forest RoadA monument is located on the corner of Ponderosa Place and Forest Road, Lugarno, on a triangular piece of land owned by Council. The memorial was erected by Thomas V Cross in memory of his son William, who was killed in action in France in 1916. It was originally constructed by 24 October 1930[1] on a site at the junction of Lugarno Parade and Moons Avenue on land donated by Thomas Cross, but following Thomas’s death it was moved to its present location. Thomas Cross was a former Mayor of Hurstville, having previously been a police sergeant at Hurstville.The monument is of locally-quarried stone with marble tablets, and is in the shape of an obelisk, ten feet square at the base and about fifteen feet high.[2]In late 1989 the monument was dismantled and moved a short distance away to rectify damage being caused by gum tree roots.[3]William Valiere Cross was born at St Peters in 1886 to Thomas and Julia Cross.[4] He was a builder to trade. He enlisted on 4 January 1916 and served initially with the 4th Division Engineers. He then served as a Sapper in the 6th Field Company of Australian Engineers, and was killed at Pozieres on 1 December 1916.[5]The monument is the location each year for Remembrance Day and Anzac Day services by the Lugarno community. It was listed on the 2012 Hurstville LEP as of local significance.[1] Propeller 24 October 1930, p4.[2] Hurstville Propeller 24 October 1930, p4.[3] St George Leader 7 December 1989.[4] NSW BDM 6673/1886.[5] See Hurstville Genealogist no 167, April/May 2013.
Victorian house “Woodcliff” and setting
Victorian house “Woodcliff” and setting12 Woodcliff ParadeLot 33, DP 237063Woodcliffe is the oldest remaining house in Lugarno and the first house to be built of brick in Lugarno. It is very important in the history of Lugarno and the associated features in Bayside Drive Reserve (Heinrich Reserve) illustrate the life style of the early Lugarno residents.Ernst Ludwig Heinrich purchased the Henning land grant, incorporating Woodcliff, from Celia Maddock in May 1900. The house had been constructed on behalf of Frederick Middleton, the then owner of the subject land, in the mid-1880s. Middleton had a substantial house built overlooking Lime Kiln Bay, built of brick, with a slate roof.Ernst’s father Adolph restored Woodcliff and developed the site with the addition of a workshop, stables, an orchard and an irrigation system. He lived permanently in the house from 1914. Ernst Heinrich constructed a tennis court and summerhouse in about 1938. The house remained in the ownership of the Heinrich family until 1997.[1] Beside the stone steps at Bayside Drive Reserve the carved words ‘Adolph Heinrich 1900’ may be seen.See Hurstville Historical Society Heritage Register 1986, no 42.It is Lot 33, DP 237063. It is listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Georges River Local Environmental Plan 2021 and was previously listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Kogarah Local Environmental Plan 2012.[1] G. Barnham, 'Riverside Reflections; Memoirs of Lugarno', Parker Pattinson Publishing, Douglas Park NSW, 2003, pp. 49-54.
Fig tree in Pickering Park
Fig tree in Pickering Park16A Isaac StreetLot A, DP 36202In July 1956, Hurstville Council agreed to the request of Alderman Mallard ‘that the Reserve between Peace Avenue and Isaac Street be named "Pickering Playground", to perpetuate the name of old and respected pioneer residents of that vicinity'. In November of the same year, Alderman Mallard sought the installation of a guard for the fig tree at the reserve, 'explaining that this particular tree was 109 years old' and providing information on the history of the Pickering family.[1]Notification dated November 1956 proclaiming the transfer of ownership of a portion of land at the intersection of Isaac Street and Peace Avenue Peakhurst from the Housing Commission of NSW to Hurstville Municipal Council was published in September 1957. The land was dedicated as a reserve for public recreation to be vested in Hurstville Council[2].Hurstville Council subsequently resolved to name the playground Pickering Park and prominently display a sign at the site to that effect[3].The fig tree is listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Georges River Local Environmental Plan 2021 and was previously listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012. On the death in 1975 of Sidney Leslie Coleborne, born Oatley 1895, who served at Gallipoli. it was stated that his wife’s great-grandmother Mary Ann Pickering, the wife of Gowan Pickering, planted the fig tree in Pickering Park in 1823 when the Pickerings arrived in the area. It was a gift from Lady Macquarie; Mrs Pickering had worked at Government House at Parramatta. The tree is stated to be still in situ – if still there, it will be 200 next year.[4][1] Minutes, Volume 1956, 'Naming of Pickering Playground', Hurstville Council Meeting, 5 July 1956 & 'Pickering Reserve – Preservation of Fig Tree', Hurstville Council Meeting, 1 November 1956, Local Studies Collection, Georges River Libraries.[2] Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW: 1901-2001), 6 September 1957 [Issue No. 102], p.2847 & Department of the Valuer General, NSW, 'Valuation Lists, Peakhurst', 1954, Local Studies Collection, Georges River Libraries.[3] Minutes, Volume 1964, minute 451, Hurstville Council Meeting, 2 April 1964, Local Studies Collection, Georges River Libraries.[4] St George Leader 23 April 1975.
Fig tree in Lambert Reserve
Fig tree in Lambert Reserve13D Whitegates AvenueLot 37, DP 209573Hurstville Council resumed Lot 37 Whitegates Avenue in 1962.[1]Lambert Reserve, Peakhurst, was named in November 1975[2] after the Lambert family, who owned a pig farm in the Whitegates Avenue area. John Lambert was instrumental in commencing Peakhurst South Progress Association. A fig tree on the reserve dates to the time when the pig farm was in operation. Council applied to the Geographical Names Board to name it the John Lambert Reserve, but the GNB did not permit Christian names, so it ended up as Lambert Reserve.A new playground at Lambert Reserve was completed by Hurstville Council in 1996.[3]The fig tree at the reserve is listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Georges River Local Environmental Plan 2021 and was previously listed as a Heritage Item in Schedule 5 of the Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012. [1] Hurstville Council Minutes 15 November 1962 no 1636.[2] Government Gazette 14 November 1975 p4791; Hurstville Council Minutes 2 August 1973 no 867-868, reserve to be named ‘John Lambert Reserve’. See also St George Leader 1 August 1973, p4.[3] Council Comment no 107, July 1996.
Evatt Park
Evatt ParkForest RoadLot 7, DP 702963; Lot 29, DP 27634In the 1920s, the ten hectare site now known as Evatt Park was a market garden owned by the Webb family. In the 1960s, Lugarno Progress Association and Hurstville Council applied to the State Planning Authority to resume the land, to develop it as a park. Hurstville Council was then appointed trustee of the park. It was subsequently named after Dr H V Evatt, leader of the Australian Labor Party and Member for Barton in the Federal Parliament. Throughout the 1970s sporting facilities and amenities were installed.A feature of the park is its ornamental lake, with a wooden viewing jetty, which was created in 1984 as part of a regeneration of the park. It was named Webb’s Dam, after the earlier owners of the land. The rockery and entrance gardens were constructed by Lugarno Lions Club.In 2018 the park featured three rugby fields, a basketball court, two netball courts, a cricket wicket and two cricket practice nets.
