[1] The stables group was built about 1892 for Samuel Hordern, grandson of the founder of the firm and the builder of the Palace Emporium, Brickfield Hill, Sydney.

The buildings facing onto the quadrangle are fine examples of rural architecture from a time when stock breeding was an important and developing industry.

[1] The stables building, which faces north and which contains twelve loose boxes, is long and narrow in plan, built of sandstock brick, with a gable roof finished with iron ventilators and decorative fretwork barge boards.

[1] The covered round year is constructed of posts set in the earth to form a ring about 9 metres (30 ft) in diameter, lined internally with two layers of boarding.

Encircling the post tops is a continuous, circular laminated wall plate to form a "parasol", perforated at its apex by an iron ventilator.

Their siting on gently rising ground in a formal composition around a central quadrangle creates an impressive vista when seen from the original main eastern approach and from the Wilton Road.

[1][2] Sited on gently sloping ground in a formal composition around a central quadrangle, the buildings are fine examples of rural architecture from a time when stock breeding was an important and developing Industry.