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Settlers Cottage was constructed of pug & stone, with 400mm thick walls, slab slate floors & open hearth fireplaces by Issac Duance, a Cornish man of Norman lineage. The building features round chimneys of rubble slate, a style unique to 17th century Normandy and the Cornwall Devon border. The only other examples in Australia are the mine shaft vents at Burra and Wallaroo. This is the only known example on a domestic building. In the colonial era, it was common for the kitchen to be separate from the main building & often half underground. The current cellar was originally the kitchen (scullery & smokehouse root cellar).
The cottage retains its original fittings and colours. The soft blue in the two main rooms
was originally a slurry of
washing blue and whitewash.
Colonial furnishings complete the ambience.
More recent kitchen updates with laundry provide essential conveniences. |
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