Socceroo Jason Culina scores $1.3 million colonial western Sydney mansion

Socceroo Jason Culina and his wife, Terri, has reputedly spent about $1.3 million to buy a colonial mansion at Ingleburn in Sydney's western suburbs.

It's one of NSW's most significant colonial palladian houses, Denham Court, and was built by Captain Richard Brooks, the enterprising sailor who settled at the Ingleburn holding in 1820.

The distinctive two-storey front-section extension was designed by John Verge in 1832, having had its initial stages constructed over earlier deacdes.

The sale of the 2.42-hectare holding with heritage-listed five-bedroom residence was by the Okey family, who first listed it more than two years ago with higher hopes, but on a much larger land holding.

The mansion comes with a ballroom, library and large formal living and dining rooms. It was based on the design of Denham Court, the 1670 ancestral Buckinghamshire, England, property of Judge Advocate Richard Bowyer Atkins, the original owner of the land grant of 200 hectares made by Governor Lachlan Macquarie.

The nearby suburb of Denham Court is named after the property. It sold through Tim Doyle of Ray White Macarthur Group