The original house was built around 1889 by the Wallarah Coal-mining Company to house its mineworkers.
Ern and Ruby Hancock were the first remembered tenants.
Mick Hancock, born in Catherine Hill Bay in 1889, and his wife Nell, born 1910,with their family were the next family to occupy this house. Their daughter Sibyl married Gordon Mascord and moved into the original house in 1957.
(Adjacent to the house and the corner house was a butcher shop.)
Sibyl’s great grandfather had come out from England in 1889. He was one of the nine miners brought out by the Wallarah Coal-mining Company. His son came from England in 1893,also Tom Price. He worked in the mine until he died, as did Sibyl’s father.
In 1964 the Coal Company ‘Coal & Allied’ subdivided some of its land. It was determined that Mr G Mascord would purchase the house and land for 350 pounds. The size of the land is unusual. The front boundary measures 51 feet 6 and ½ inches while the rear boundary is 39 feet and 4 inches. Nos 2 & 4 back onto the eastern boundary and the western side is 108 feet and 6 and ¼ inches.
The house was demolished in 1979 and a new home built on the site.
Gordon and Sibyl Mascord lived in the house until Gordon went into a nursing home in 2012. Sibyl continued to live in the house until 2014.
The house was sold .