Dubbo Accommodation When Visiting Dundullimal Homestead

If you have a love of Australian history and historical buildings, then Dundullimal Homestead is a must-see for anyone visiting the Dubbo region.

Currently under the careful curatorship of the National Trust of NSW, Dundullimal Homestead is believed to be Australia’s oldest surviving sophisticated slab house and the oldest surviving building in Dubbo that is open to the public.

The homestead was built in the early 1840s, along with a timber church, shed and sandstone stables, to serve as the head station of a 6,500-hectare squatting run – that is, a portion of open land (usually crown grazing land), beyond the limits of settlement, that was claimed by a ‘squatter’. Squatters were graziers who essentially took hold of the land illegally, using it as grazing land for their sheep.

The house itself is finely crafted, though not a grand home, however it is considered to be rather sophisticated for the period and location in which it was built. The more traditional stables complex contains the essential buildings that would have been required by a remote working property in the mid-19^th century, including a sunken cool room and stores room, coach room and blacksmith’s forge.