Series · 2 prints

Mountain View Homestead

Photographed 2018

Frames 2

Camera NIKON D850

Location New South Wales, Australia

Status Vacant; under conservation

Heritage NSW SHR 01743

Specs Two-storey wattle and daub · Six ground-floor rooms · Probably only two-storey wattle and daub in Australia

01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

Mountain View Homestead is a two-storey wattle and dab house at Wisemans Creek in Oberon Shire, on the NSW Central Tablelands between Bathurst, Oberon and Lithgow. Designed and built by David Smith Todd between 1880 and 1894 in a French Renaissance style, it is believed to be the only known two-storey wattle-and-daub dwelling in NSW. Timber was harvested on the property; mud came from the nearby Levy's Gully; lime plaster on the outside disguised the construction. There is no internal staircase: the upper floor is reached by a ladder from the kitchen and external steps. Todd was a community figure in his own right, running for the seat of Macquarie in 1898 on a ticket advocating free trade, agriculture, Federation and women's suffrage. The homestead was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 10 March 2006. Conservation in progress.

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