Historic Mount Annan at Oakbank, SA sells for $2.2 million

The 1865 Oakbank homestead, Mount Annan on 15 hectares with views of the Onkaparinga River in rural South Australia, has been sold.

It was marketed as one of South Australia's earliest homesteads.

Mount Annan, 30 minutes from Adelaide, sold for $2.2 million last month having been listed late last year with $2.65 million hopes.

It sold through Chris and Georgia Weston at Raine & Horne.

The original homestead on Onkaparinga Valley Road has been totally rebuilt, offering all new roof, wiring, plumbing, and flooring.

Some of the original roof shingles have been preserved under the new iron.

The original windows have been rebuilt, as have the original multi-pane double swing doors, fireplaces and doors, have all been restored.

There is now under floor heating, except where two stone rooms feature the original hardwood flooring. 

The spacious lounge entry features ornate fire surround, Victorian cast iron fire grate and vaulted matchboard ceilings.

The origins of the faming block date back to the Cock family who arrived in 1838 from Leith, in Mid Lothian, Scotland.

In 1840 Robert Cock, in partnership with William Fergusson, brought sections 4017 and 4021 of the Mount Barker Special Survey (Onkaparinga) from the South Australian Company.

Robert Cock employed his cousins the Lamb family who built the farmhouse. The very first stone rooms were built in the early 1840s and later additions were made in the 1860s and the 1880s.

Thomas Edwards, who came out from Shropshire in 1850 on the ship Lord Ashbourne, bought the then 200 acre Mount Annan property in 1852 from Robert Cock.

The Edwards family owned the property for five generations listing the unrenovated property in 2010, selling it in 2011 at $930,000.