Cadmans Cottage

Cadmans Cottage is the oldest surviving residential building in Sydney, having been built in 1816 for the use of the governmental coxswains and their crews.The building is heavily steeped in the history of Sydney, also claiming the title as the first building to have been built on the shoreline of The Rocks area.It is claimed that during high tide, the water would come within 8 feet (2.4 m) of Cadmans Cottage however, due to the reclamation of land during the building of Circular Quay, the waterline has moved about 100 metres away since 1816.The building has had several different uses in its lifetime first and foremost as the abode of the four governmental coxswains (from 1816 until 1845).