A Brief History of 'Stoke House'
The current site of about 2 acres was originally part of “Saltash Farm” which was incorporated in a land grant of 1396 acres made to Thomas Icely in 1835. It was presented as a dowry to John Henn-Gennys when he married Icely’s daughter, Emily, in 1855. The original two storied building contained the four rooms on the northeastern corner of the current building. These were probably constructed in 1846.
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“Historic Carcoar Village”
is located just off the Mid Western Highway, near Blayney and between Orange and Bathurst in the Central Tablelands, Central West NSW.
Carcoar has been classified by the National Trust Of Australia NSW
A year after Icely’s death, it was substantially enlarged in 1875. At this time the southern half of the main building and several out buildings were added and it was named the “Stoke Hotel”.
A further two storied addition, currently housing the café toilets, was added in 1882 in response to a change in the liquor licensing act which required a substantial increase in the number of available bedrooms
It traded as the “Stoke Hotel” until forfeiture of its liquor license in 1937. Since then, except for a brief period when it was relicensed during the reconstruction of the Royal Hotel, which was destroyed by fire in 1942, the building has remained as a private residence. It changed ownership in 1944, 1952 and finally in 2001 when John and Liz Campbell bought it and developed its current format and function.
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