Chakola Shack Colour:White designed by architect George Sydney

designed by architect George Sydney Jones between 1902 and 1921

Dining Room at Rozelle

Buildings like this one represent the full arc of pastoral settlement: selector's cottages staked on 320-acre gambles

The engine house sits at the core of Station No

Chakola Shack Colour:White designed by architect George SydneyTimber walls bleached grey by years of sun and rain, the Chakola Shack stands in the Australian bush with a rusted corrugated iron roof sheltering its decaying interior. A vernacular slab timber structure of the kind built by selectors and smallholders across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward, it represents the arc of pastoral settlement and slow abandonment that defines this region. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.