Other NamesWoodhouse Homestead ComplexTypePastoral leaseIdentifierUMA-PL-000000784History
The squatting run was established by Adolphus Sceales in March 1848 who died in 1854. The run then passed to James Ritchie who passed it on to his brothers, Daniel and Simon Ritchie in 1858 and, from 1860, Simon Ritchie held the licence on his own. The Ritchie brothers were in partnership with James Sceales, Adolphus' brother, in the neighbouring Blackwood run. For much of the later nineteenth century, Woodhouse was occupied by James Alexander. A new homestead was built immediately adjacent to the original in 1857 and this was extended in 1868 by the architect J. M. Knight of Penshurst. It was extended and substantially modernised about 1900. The Ritchie family held the property until 1928 when it was purchased by John Baillieu.
