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O’Connell Street Gatehouse

architect

George McKinnon

location

Parramatta Park, Parramatta.

date

1885

style

Victorian Tudor

construction

A castellated design derived from an English pattern-book. 

type

gatehouse
It was built in 1885 and designed by Gordon McKinnon, a Parramatta architect. There are four sets of gates into the Governor's Domain (now Parramatta Park) - on the western end, the southern end (Pitt St), and south (Great Western Highway).
 
 

 

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