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Nugal Hall was one of his last buildings and was designed at the same time that Lewis was designing and building his own Gothic Revival mansion, known as Richmond Villa on the site of the current NSW Parliament buildings (now relocated to Millers Point). Nugal Hall was designed by the Colonial Architect, Mortimer Lewis who came to Australia and worked from 1830 to 1861.

The stone for Nugal Hall was therefore quarried on the spot and the foundation of Nugal Hall is securely built on rock. Callaghan presumably had an arrangement to use sandstone from the site of Nugal Hall for the construction of his own nearby sandstone residence 'Avoca' which was built at the same time. Most construction was undertaken by ticket of leave men (convicts on parole) under the supervision of Judge Callaghan. Sandstone from the site on which Nugal Hall was located was used in the construction of a number of houses in the immediate vicinity. A number of streets in the immediate area were named after Judge Callaghan, including Avoca Street, Judge Street, Milford Street, and Ada Street. 'Vale' means valley in Gaelic whilst 'Avoca' is said to mean 'meeting of the waters' or 'great river'. Callaghan named his house there as 'Avoca' after the 'Vale of Avoca' from County Wicklow in Ireland.

Ĭallaghan described the land at the time as resembling Ireland for its picturesque beauty involving waterfalls and rolling farmland from the top of the Randwick ridge line down to Coogee Beach and the Tasman Sea. Callaghan was another prominent Colonial figure and one of the first three judges in the Sydney Court of General and Quarter Sessions. Judge Thomas Callaghan bought a 2.1 hectare (5.2 acre) block to the south. The land was bordered to the east by a 12.1 hectare (30 acre) block of land in Coogee owned by William Charles Wentworth, one of the leading figures in early colonial New South Wales and the richest man in Sydney at that time. The land granted to McArthur in Randwick extended from Judge Street to Belmore Road, and from Alison Road to Mear's Avenue. The aggregate cost of the four lots was around £1,300. McArthur (also spelled as 'MacArthur' (sic) in documents of the time) was likely investing the significant profits he had achieved at that time as a gold exporter and clothing importer in the great Australian gold rushes that started in early 1851.

The land grants to McArthur involved four lots aggregating to some 8.4 hectares (20.7 acres) acquired by private tender on both sides of Avoca Street (then known as Frenchman's Road). The land on which Nugal Hall is built was granted to Alexander (Alex) McArthur in Randwick, over the period 1851-1853, by Governor Fitzroy.

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Nugal Hall has had many famous residents including politicians, business magnates, ambassadors, judges/lawyers, and movie stars. Nugal Hall was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 and on the (now defunct) Register of the National Estate. Lewis (north section) and completed in 1853. Nugal Hall was designed by Mortimer Lewis (south section) and Oswald H. Nugal Hall sits in the City of Randwick local government area as part of the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. Nugal Hall is a heritage-listed Gothic Revival style former private residence, ambassador's residence, boutique lodge, embassy and now private residence located at 16-18 Milford Street, in the Sydney suburb of Randwick on the boundary with the suburb of Coogee.

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