Hunting Lodge, Rouse Hill
The Hunting Lodge is a heritage-listed colonial era hunting lodge located at 58 The Water Lane in Rouse Hill in The Hills Shire local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History The land on which the building is located was granted by Governor King to Governor Bligh in 1806 and ratified by Governor Macquarie. It was Bligh's private property and was named Copenhagen Farm after one of his sea battles. Later in the century the property passed to the land holder and politician S. H. Terry (1833-1887) who possibly built the lodge in the 1860s or later. Through Terry the property is strongly associated with Rouse Hill House and Box Hill House. Terry was born at his family's Box Hill farm. Local legend holds that the lodge was constructed by Governor Bligh, as the original land grant was given to him. It appears more likely it was constructed by the Terry family of Box Hill or one of their tenants who was a stonemason, but used the surrounding land as an orchard. Another possibility is that it was built by Henry Ferdinand Halloran who