Hunter Shack Size:XS Overhead cupboards hang open above

Overhead cupboards hang open above it

lit faintly from windows out of frame

built from local hardwood and galvanised iron from the 1850s onward

Self Serve at Bankstown

The southernmost of three malthouse buildings on the site

Hunter Shack Size:XS Overhead cupboards hang open aboveA single window frames a quiet pastoral landscape through weathered timbers, the corrugated iron roof above it rusted to a deep brown red. This isolated dwelling sits somewhere in the Hunter Valley, one of the smaller structures in the series: a slab and iron vernacular form that once kept out a Monaro wind or a Hunter winter with equal indifference. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.