State Heritage Register
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The State Heritage Register lists items of particular importance to the people of NSW.

Price Morris Cottage
Built over 160 years ago by Welshman Price Morris and his wife Mary, the cottage is a rare physical reminder of what life was like along the Macdonald River valley in the mid 19th century. Remarkably, it remains in the ownership of the same family.
Price Morris Cottage
Third Government Farm
In 1801 the colony’s third Government farm was hewn from bushland by convicts at present day Castle Hill. First a colonial farm, then a lunatic asylum, a church, and finally a school, the archaeological relics of its fascinating past still exist beneath the grasslands.
Third Government Farm
Sydney Observatory
The Observatory has been a part of the everyday life of Sydneysiders for 195 years: telling the time, forecasting the weather and exploring the heavens. The sandstone building was designed by Colonial Architect, Alexander Dawson, to house the telescopes and scientific apparatus required for 19th century astronomy.
Sydney Observatory
Gold Mining Water Race
The aqueduct wall at Windeyer, near Mudgee, was built by Chinese gold miners and dates back to the gold rush days of the district which began in the late 1850s.
Gold Mining Water Race
Brownlow Hill Estate
The rural estate of the first Colonial Secretary of NSW, Alexander Macleay, is one of the most prominent colonial gardens and estates in Australia. Its considerable acreage and farming patterns are largely intact.
Brownlow Hill Estate
Eric Pratten House
Eric Pratten House in Pymble is the largest domestic house designed by renowned architect, Walter Burley Griffin, and one of his last projects in Australia. The two-storey house remains unchanged within its original garden setting
Eric Pratten House
Corowa Courthouse
This small elegant courthouse in the border town of Corowa on the Murray River is an important site in Australia’s journey to Federation. It was here in 1893 that a gathering of supporters met to revive the push for Federation.
Corowa Courthouse
Katoomba Post Office
When the Commonwealth assumed direct control of post offices in New South Wales it used Katoomba Post Office, built in 1910 in a Georgian revival style, as the model for all new post offices in the state up to 1930.
Katoomba Post Office

Also added to the register: Bungarribee Homestead complex in Doonside; Old Growth Forest, Upper North East Region of NSW; Federation Pavilion in Concord; and post offices at Forbes, Wellington, Orange, North Sydney, Paddington, Wingham, Kempsey, Tamworth, Yass, Broken Hill, Goulburn, Junee, Kiama, Redfern, Pyrmont, Hay and Newcastle.

Eric Pratten House
Eric Pratten House, Pymble

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