Historic Bathurst mansion Rainham sells for $1.6m

‘Polly want a cracker?’ 720 Vale Rd, Orton Park was on the market for the second time in its 193-year history. An unusual historic mansion in the country, built by an ancestor of the family behind Australia’s oldest real estate brand, has sold for about the same price as a one-bedroom apartment in inner Sydney. The 1832 Georgian heritage-listed six-bedroom homestead ‘Rainham’, on more than 32ha at 720 Vale Rd, Orton Park, five minutes from the centre of Bathurst, fetched $1.6m via Raine & Horne Bathurst agent Grant Maskill-Dowton. The property, one of the oldest in Bathurst, was built for Captain Thomas Raine, a pioneering merchant, explorer and pastoralist, had been on the market for more than a year. It had a $1.8m guide in February. MORE: $20m theological college ‘could be a house’ It’s sold, after more than a year on the market. “It looks like it’s abandoned, but it’s actually overly cared for in that we left it alone,” vendor Suzy Miller told the ABC at the time of it being listed. They left the interiors pretty much as they found them. It was only the second time in the homestead’s 193-year history that it had gone up for sale. Captain Raine was the grandfather of Raine &...