On 26 June 2019 the National Trust listed the ‘Old Sydney Town Living History Museum’ see attachment. We understand the Trust issued the listing to the owners, Central Coast Council, Heritage NSW and the Federal government – and the listing includes the following extract ‘Old Sydney Town at 945 Old Pacific Highway, Somersby, is rare as a Living History Museum, composed entirely of purpose built accurate reproductions of some of Australia's earliest buildings. The cultural landscape of the place is rare and unique in its portrayal of Sydney and its environs as they existed in the period before the arrival of Governor Lachlan Macquarie.’
In 1969, Frank Fox founded Old Sydney Town and conceived the project of creating, at his extensive property on the shore of a man-made lake at Somersby, a facsimile of Sydney c1810 as it was before the arrival of Governor Macquarie.
There are four components that facilitate the determination of cultural significance - historic, aesthetic, social and scientific.