Tranmere and
Clarence Plains
Land and Coast Care

The restored sandstone Rokeby Watch House now stands as a private home, where once the building contained three cells, rooms for the constables, a watch house keeper and a magistrate, a retiring room and a day work room for prisoners. A nine foot high slab fence, affixed to the walls, not only secured the prisoners, but enclosed the two outside "dunnies".

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Following the trail, we can imagine on the Rokeby High School grounds, the 19th century Hawthorne cottage, with its steep stairs to the attic, and its lean-to bathroom, just before the stables of the "Bayview" farm which, during the 1960s, were used for the Hobart & District Riding School.