East Maitland's Caroline Chisholm trophy home sold
The historic Caroline Chisholm cottage in East Maitland, which remains the only remaining property directly linked to the pioneering social reformer, has been sold for $320,000.
The Heritage Council of NSW notes the Mill Street property is the only surviving building in NSW directly associated with Chisholm.
Chisholm, who was immortalised on the $5 note from 1967 to 1991, never lived in East Maitland.
The heritage-listed property with the original sandstone walls, original shingle roof under the iron roof and exposed beams in the lounge room later become Maitland's first hospital, and was known as the Maitland Benevolent Asylum.
It fetched $42,000 in 1994.
It last traded in 2010 for $256,500.
Tammy Allen, of Richardson & Wrench East Maitland, had a price guide of $330,000 to $360,000.