Adelaide. Ochiltree House was built around 1880 for John Rounsevell a former coach company operator. Nice pond and statue in the formal front garden
Ochiltree House was built around 1880 for John Rounsevell a former coach company operator, government contractor and pastoralist. Rounsevell also owned Corryton Park estate near Mount Crawford and a mansion in Hutt Street which eventually became the Navy Military and Airforce Club in the 1950s. Rounsevell was a member of the Legislative Council (and later the House of Assembly) and a City of Adelaide Councillor. Rounsevell came to Adelaide from Cornwall with his parents in 1839 when he was just three years old. He died in 1902. His father established a coaching company which John Rounsevell inherited before he sold it on to Cobb and Co. He also made money from supplying telegraph poles for the Port Augusta to Darwin section of the overland telegraph in the early 1870s. He married four times to two sets of sisters sequentially and he was the father of eleven children. He had five with his first wife, three with his third wife and three with his last wife. Ochiltree House is superbly sited on the corner of South and East Terraces in Adelaide overlooking the city parklands in two directions.
Adelaide. Ochiltree House was built around 1880 for John Rounsevell a former coach company operator. Nice pond and statue in the formal front garden
Ochiltree House was built around 1880 for John Rounsevell a former coach company operator, government contractor and pastoralist. Rounsevell also owned Corryton Park estate near Mount Crawford and a mansion in Hutt Street which eventually became the Navy Military and Airforce Club in the 1950s. Rounsevell was a member of the Legislative Council (and later the House of Assembly) and a City of Adelaide Councillor. Rounsevell came to Adelaide from Cornwall with his parents in 1839 when he was just three years old. He died in 1902. His father established a coaching company which John Rounsevell inherited before he sold it on to Cobb and Co. He also made money from supplying telegraph poles for the Port Augusta to Darwin section of the overland telegraph in the early 1870s. He married four times to two sets of sisters sequentially and he was the father of eleven children. He had five with his first wife, three with his third wife and three with his last wife. Ochiltree House is superbly sited on the corner of South and East Terraces in Adelaide overlooking the city parklands in two directions.