The four-storey brick and stone flour mill at Jembaicumbene, its steep gabled end wall rising above long grass under a grey sky, with a timber door set into the granite base and small windows above.
The four-storey brick and stone flour mill at Jembaicumbene, its steep gabled end wall rising above long grass under a grey sky, with a timber door set into the granite base and small windows above.

Gabled End Wall

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
16mm · f/8.0 · 1/800 sec · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A four-storey brick building with a steep gabled roof and stone base sits in long grass. A timber door is set into the stone at ground level. Small windows are arranged in rows up the facade. The sky is heavy and overcast. The surrounding grass is long and uncut.

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The four-storey brick and stone flour mill at Jembaicumbene, its steep gabled end wall rising above long grass under a grey sky, with a timber door set into the granite base and small windows above.The four-storey brick and stone flour mill at Jembaicumbene, its steep gabled end wall rising above long grass under a grey sky, with a timber door set into the granite base and small windows above.The four-storey brick and stone flour mill at Jembaicumbene, its steep gabled end wall rising above long grass under a grey sky, with a timber door set into the granite base and small windows above.The four-storey brick and stone flour mill at Jembaicumbene, its steep gabled end wall rising above long grass under a grey sky, with a timber door set into the granite base and small windows above.The four-storey brick and stone flour mill at Jembaicumbene, its steep gabled end wall rising above long grass under a grey sky, with a timber door set into the granite base and small windows above.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Gabled End Wall
Series
Mill Pond Farm
Process
Giclée
Captured
21 January 2022
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/800 sec s
ISO
100
Focal length
16 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Location
Jembaicumbene, NSW, Australia
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
02 LOCATION

Jembaicumbene, NSW, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The gabled end wall of the Jembaicumbene Steam Flour Mills stands as the most substantial surviving structure from the district's gold rush era. Built in 1859 by Charles Edward Dransfield, a Yorkshire wool miller turned NSW wheat grower and gold prospector, the four-storey building was constructed from bricks manufactured on the property and stone drawn from farm-sourced granite. Massive hardwood beams from the Budawang Ranges span the interior floors. The building was designed by Sydney surveyor C.E. Langley, who died in Woolloomooloo on 18 June 1864, and its engineering works, including the 20-horsepower steam engine and internal lift, were supplied by P.N. Russell and Co. of Sydney, then one of the largest engineering works in colonial Australia. The mill opened as the Jembaicumbene Steam Flour Mills in January 1860. It served a settlement of more than 1,000 gold miners working Jembaicumbene Creek, among them approximately 600 Chinese miners. Under one roof the building housed flour milling, sawmilling, a quartz crushing battery for gold extraction, and a bakery. All milling operations ceased in 1885. Dransfield died on 19 January 1888. The building remained standing through successive waves of the district's history: gold dredging operations on the creek from around 1901, the gradual quietening of Jembaicumbene as a settlement, and eventually an 11-year restoration of the broader property begun around 2008. During that restoration, the lower mill floors became the Wheatfield Gallery, exhibiting fine art, craft, and decorative arts. In 2022, the gabled end wall still carries the full height of the original structure: brick and granite rising from long grass, small windows in rows, a timber door set into the stone base, and a steep roofline unchanged from the year Dransfield's mill first opened to the goldfield.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The gabled end wall of the Jembaicumbene Steam Flour Mills rises from a base of farm-sourced granite and locally manufactured brick, its steep roofline unchanged since Charles Dransfield built the four-storey structure in 1859. Small windows climb the facade in rows above a timber door set into the stone. Designed by Sydney surveyor C.E. Langley and engineered by P.N. Russell and Co., the mill opened in January 1860 to serve a creek-side settlement of more than 1,000 gold miners. It milled wheat until 1885, when operations ceased.

Brett Patman

Mill Pond Farm

The series

Mill Pond Farm

2022 · 53 photographs

Mill Pond Farm sits in Jembaicumbene, near Braidwood, on land first worked as the region's earliest dairy in the 1830s. In 1859 a Yorkshire-born goldminer named Charles Dransfield built a four-storey Steam Flour Mill on the property, designed by Sydney architect Charles Langley. A 24-horsepower steam engine ground wheat, sawed timber, and crushed quartz to extract gold. The mill ran until 1885, when the railway arriving in Tarago undercut local flour prices, the financial depression hit, and repeated wheat rust outbreaks finished the run. The mill, stables, and dairy buildings sat unworked for nearly a century. Restoration is in progress.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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07 MORE FROM MILL POND FARM

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Window and Field $100.00
Farm buildings at Jembaicumbene, a red iron roofed barn and timber cottage across a green paddock.
Weatherboard Homestead $100.00
Twin timber sash windows at Jembaicumbene, whitewashed brick wall with exposed red brick reveals.
Whitewashed Brick Wall $100.00
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