come into the possession of Matthew Everingham III whose father had born in the colony in 1795 as the son of two first fleet convicts. His wife Sophia Arndell was a descendant of first fleet surgeon Thomas Arndell of Caddy Park. Everingham held the property until 1867 and his father was rescued by boat from the first floor during the great flood of that year. Other flood markings and records indicate that the water was 4.69 metres deep inside the building. The new owner was Peter De Rome, a young man who had made a fortune on the Araluen gold field. After his death in 1899 his wife, Amelia, continued to live in Stannix Park until 1906 when the property was subdivided into small lots (approximately 50 acres each) and sold. A succession of absentee landlords followed, and the house gradually fell into disrepair. It was bought in 1978 by a Mr R. Bennet who fitted a new roof before giving up the property. The 46-acre site and house were bought by Max and Lorna Hatherly in August 1983. It was a ruin. The home had not been lived in for 40 years prior and was in poor shape, with little but the structure intact. Architects Ian Stapleton and Clive Lucas drew up plans for the restoration while Stan Hellyer, a specialist in restoring buildings, oversaw the building phase. The house is one of about 20 stone colonial farm houses in the Hawkesbury Valley and is distinguished by the jerkin head roof and the fact that a coach (or cart) house with an impressive arched entrance was built into the main structure. The stone was quarried at 2 quarries, located on the site about 100 metres south of the building. Other features include 3 stone water tanks, each 9m by 2m. In 2009, the property was sold to Selena Mazuran, owner of the FBI Fashion College in Glebe. She added 2300 square meters of adjoining land in 2012, with infrastructure such as three rotating solar panels, six rainwater tanks, a chapel, an outdoor chess set and a swimming pool. Description The house is sited on 20 hectares (increased from 18 under Mazuran's ownership) on a low, reportedly "never-flooded" sandstone peninsula which is rounded by the flood plains of Currency Creek and Howe's Creek. The low timbered hills beyond these plains carry dry sclerophyll forest with occasional patches of wet sclerophyll