stones, machinery and gear in perfect working order), spacious granary, a superior cottage (of 7 rooms with outbuildings, garden etc.), a large brick building used as a stables (12 stalls), and nearly the whole estate is cleared, stumped and ready for the plough... a "choice vineyard - 5 acres of fine old vines, from which 800-1000 gallons of wine are usually made", together with farm houses, etc., about 80 acres of timber reserved for shelter. White family The estate was sold to James White in the mid-1870s. White (1828–90), born in Stroud, son of a former overseer for the Australian Agricultural Company. During his 20s he became a land owner in the Hunter Valley, and later elected to the NSW Legislative Council as a member for the Upper Hunter Valley (1864-8; 1874) in the 1870s. White was an important figure in the horse racing industry: a long term committee member of the Australian Jockey Club and its chairman in 1880 and from 1883-90. Although he had racing horses on his Hunter Valley properties, Kirkham enjoyed better access to the Sydney race tracks. Late nineteenth century newspapers regularly reported the results of the Kirkham Stud. White also bred horses at his Segenhoe property and built the lavish heritage-listed Big Stable Newmarket in Randwick. The most famous Kirkham horse was stallion "Chester", who won 19 out of 29 starts, including the Melbourne Cup. White won five AJC Derbys (1884–89) and six VRC Derbys (1877–90). He is reputed to have collected over A£121,000 in stakes from 66 horses winning 252 races. "Chester" died in 1891 and is said to be buried close to the Kirkham Stables. White also raced horses, unsuccessfully, in England. White carried out improvements to Kirkham estate. The original Oxley homestead was demolished in c.1882, possibly after damage by fire. White commissioned John Horbury Hunt to design a new mansion in the French Gothic style. Hunt had earlier carried out substantial extensions to White's Sydney villa, Cranbrook, at Rose Bay (Bellevue Hill). The mansion he built at Kirkham, now known as Camelot, is separately listed on the State Heritage Register and located on an adjoining property (south of Kirkham Lane). The Camden-Campbelltown Railway line was constructed during White's period of ownership, in 1882. Kirkham Railway Station was the second of nine stations on this line, which operated until the 1960s. No construction date has been identified for the existing dwelling