If Cumberland Place is the stepped climb, Susannah Place is the terrace that still hugs the hill beside it. Four houses (and a long-serving corner shop) at 58–64 Gloucester Street, The Rocks — bridging Gloucester and Cambridge Streets — built in 1844 for Irish immigrant Edward Riley (rate books sometimes spell Reilly) and associated with his wife Mary. The name ties to Susannah Sterne in the household; you can still read “Susannah Place Anno Domini 1844” on the Gloucester Street front.
For about 150 years more than a hundred working families lived here — a rare continuous working-class residential story through plague clearances, Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority schemes and later conservation fights. People were still living in the houses into 1990. After stabilisation, the site opened as a historic house museum under the Historic Houses Trust (now Museums of History NSW). Interiors are interpreted across eras; the corner shop is fitted out as early twentieth century. It is on the NSW State Heritage Register.
Walk it with Cumberland Place: the steps and the terraces tell the same Rocks story at modest scale.
Susannah Place is a preserved terrace of four houses in The Rocks, Sydney, built in the nineteenth century. The site records the working-class lives and changing communities of the area.