Ironmungie Road Woolshed Size:XS Eastern Facade at Pyrmont

Eastern Facade at Pyrmont

Buildings like this housed the itinerant shearers and station hands who kept the Monaro's wool industry moving across the pastoral boom years of the 1870s to 1890s

where smallholder graziers and selectors built what they could from split slab and galvanised iron

The raised stage at the far end sits stripped and open

and distributed pavilions as the treatment itself

Ironmungie Road Woolshed Size:XS Eastern Facade at PyrmontMismatched corrugated iron panels cover the walls of this large rural woolshed, rust bleeding across the ridgeline where the sheets meet. The gable end faces open pasture under a heavy, cloud layered sky. Corrugated galvanised iron became the dominant cladding material for Australian rural buildings from the 1850s, suited to a pastoral climate that asked a lot of its structures. Part of The Woolshed series.