Some farm house history
This week we had an interesting visit from an historian researching the work of George Wright, the builder of our house. She was visiting all of the houses that he built in the Taralga and Golspie area in the 1910s. The Maynards bought the property in 1903 from the Cumberlands and the current house was built soon afterwards. The Maynards had several houses built in the same style as ours - Dreamlands, Brooklands (East Springs) and Llandillo. We are looking forward to reading the research when it is published to learn more.
We learnt that the South side of the house would have originally been the main entrance. The two bedrooms on either side of the veranda were known as “stranger rooms”. These rooms had their own outside doors and no internal access to the main house. They would have been used by visiting shearers and other farm workers that the family might not know closely and hence the term stranger rooms.
The bricks were most likely brought in from a brickworks In Goulburn and the rocks would have been quarried and shaped on site. The mortar is an early form of concrete.
The windows and doors were most likely re-used from an earlier building as George Wright did with most of his buildings.
Here is a previous post with some more history of the farm:
Flower beds for bees and some farm history
While we are on the waiting list for a local bee swarm I have planted some flower beds to give them plenty of food over the summer. There are lots of flowers now in the early spring with the wattles and fruit trees but there is much less for the bees to feed on over the summer and autumn months.
Fascinating information Doug. The house was built so well and is so beautiful.