Murrurundi Pioneer Cottage
Upper Hunter
About Murrurundi Pioneer Cottage
The Murrurundi Pioneer cottage came to Murrurundi from a farm called Allston out of Timor Way and was built in 1889. The cottage was taken piece by piece from the farm and resettled in Murrurundi in the late 1990s. The cottage is of slab wood construction and corrugated iron roof housing four rooms including a kitchen, dining/lounge room and two bedrooms. All the items housed in the cottage from the milk and butter churns to the newspaper-lined wall are original and still of sound construction. The exterior is coated in whitewash paint (lime, salt and warm water). Accompanying the structure is an outside toilet (dunny) and a stables holding the original mangle and a one-horse dray used for carting goods along with a sulky for transport into Murrurundi to buy supplies. This is a real an ...
Murrurundi Pioneer Cottage
Upper Hunter, New South Wales
127 Mayne Street, Upper Hunter, Murrurundi, New South Wales, Australia, 2338
The Murrurundi Pioneer cottage came to Murrurundi from a farm called Allston out of Timor Way and was built in 1889.
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Murrurundi Pioneer Cottage
127 Mayne Street, Upper Hunter, Murrurundi, New South Wales, Australia, 2338
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Open:
The venue is open from 10:00 to 12:00 every Saturday and Sunday or by appointment or asking at the Visitor Information Centre alongside between 10:00 and 2:00 during the week or if closed.
