History of Oatlands House - Historic Oatlands House is the ideal Function Venue. We will organise everything for weddings, engagement parties, anniversary celebrations, corporate and trade functions, Christmas parties, 21st Birthdays, christenings, cocktail parties and school formals.
Oatlands was a grant in 1823. The house was built in the 1830s by Captain Percy Simpson, an army officer and former Governor of Paxos. He came to Australia in 1822 to take up an appointment as commandant of the convicts’ settlement at Wellington. (The Bathurst Wellington Road was known as Simpson’s Road because of the frequent trips by Mr Simpson in his gig). Simpson became Superintendent of the Great North Road and later the Colony’s Crown Lands Commissioner. One of his sons, Sir George Bowen Simpson, born at Oatlands became the Judge of the colony at the age of 28.