Buckland Convalescent Home is a heritage-listed former residence and private parkland and now convalescent hospital located at 39 Hawkesbury Road, Springwood, in the City of Blue Mountains local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Thomas Buckland and McPhee Smith and was built from 1881 to 1934 by Kell & Rigby. It is also known as Buckland Convalescent Home and Garden. The property is owned by The Buckland Convalescent Hospital. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History Indigenous history Reports of numerous bushfires in the Blue Mountains in the 1820s is seen as evidence of Aboriginal presence in the area. Recent studies have revealed evidence of occupation back some 14,000 years. The arrival of Europeans and the introduction of diseases such as smallpox, saw the Aboriginal population decimated as early as 1789 when a widespread epidemic, according to Captain John Hunter (1793) "swept off hundreds of the natives in the winter of 1789". Apparently quick to assimilate, the Aboriginal group around Springwood 'in 1819 the "Chef de Springwood" Aurang- Jack...was in European dress and the elderly leader Karadra was smoking a clay pipe'. By the 1991 census only 65 Aboriginal people were recorded living in the area. The clan associated with Springwood was identified as the Oryang-Ora (Aurang), and there are a number of known sites containing Aboriginal evidence in the Springwood area, though none known to the Buckland Village. Colonial history Buckland Village chronology: Phase 1 of development covers the period 1876-1934 and is believed to incorporate the following development and landscape features: farm residence; outbuilding and paddocks/orchard; additional six-roomed cottage (the position of this has not been established); dam (other side of boundary); water feature; sandstone-edged pathways; landscaping, including exotic pines along the northern boundary; large dam and probably a second dam; driveway from Hawkesbury Road. In February 1876 James Bentley Corbin was granted at Springwood - portion 97. In December 1876 John Thomas Ellison was granted - portion 72. In January 1881 Dr. James Norton MLA was granted "under the Volunteer Force Regulation Act of 1867" - portion 38 - property was named Euchora. Norton was a Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly and Postmaster General in the Stuart Government. He originally received in the late 1870s and purchased a further which were parts of Portions 71 and 137, originally granted to John Thomas