Royal Hotel Thornleigh

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DetailsPatrick Duffy (grandson of Sgt. Duffy) built the Royal Hotel and leased the licence to R Palmer who had been a Cobb & Co stagecoach driver but wanted to try his hand at being a publican. Work on the Royal Hotel commenced during the latter part of 1890 and was located next to the School of Arts building on Pennant Hills Road. The two-storey hotel had 19 rooms as well as office space. On the ground floor was the bar, bar parlour, dining room (23'X16'), breakfast room and sitting room. Upstairs were bedrooms and a balcony offering good views of the surrounding countryside. The premises contained a stable, four stalls, a hayloft and a coach house with a well in the backyard.
Palmer hosted a Ball after the hotel opened for business in 1891 but left the Royal after a time and established the Anglers Rest Hotel in Brooklyn. The Duffy family moved into the hotel and left the farm for other family members to manage. The hotel then became known as Duffy's Royal Hotel. When the hotel was delicensed in 1928 the Liquor Licence was transferred to the new hotel in Epping and the premises became a private residence upstairs and the Post Office and dentist rooms downstairs. Duffy family members believe the hotel closed when the new, and more prestigious Eaton's Hotel, opened in Pennant Hills.
'An A-Z of Thornleigh: Then and Now' HSHS (2019) P. 88Date taken1965LocationThornleighGeotag^[1]KeywordsHistoric houses and buildingsRoyal HotelThornleighPennant Hills RoadSchool of Arts ThornleighDuffy family

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Royal Hotel Thornleigh

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