The property could soon have new owners for the first time in 160 years.
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00:00It's just an iconic house with a lot of history that we like to see brought back to life and
00:06someone to come and love it and bring it back to what it was years ago.
00:10Scottish family come out in the early 1860s and built the house.
00:15They sourced all their timber and rock from the land.
00:19The limestone walls are 18 inches thick.
00:21There's two parts to the house.
00:22There's two families have lived in here over the years.
00:25There's a kitchen at each end of the house.
00:29Only one bathroom but there's living quarters for two families.
00:32Early days there was a lot of workers here.
00:35There's a lot of infrastructure and they're all self-sufficient.
00:38They lived off the land here.
00:39They had their own bakery etc.
00:43Even a slight grog shop and it was used as a halfway house because it was all horse and cart.
00:48It moved down through the families through four generations of the family.
00:52This is old copper here that we when we were kids.
00:55Mum used to bath us in and we had a hot water.
00:59It used to also heat the water overhead.
01:02A system that it used to heat the water.
01:04Used to have the fire underneath and that was used until yeah probably.
01:10I miss the scrubber.
01:11Scrubber washing my hands until we were sort of I was eight or ten years old.
01:16This is the original wool shed and the property was built just a few years after the main house.
01:21Probably the late 1860s.
01:23All this timber was sourced and done by hand and it's the only wool shed,
01:26original wool shed in the district now.
01:28There's a lot of fun in our life and joy and we just like to see it bring back to life.
01:33It's got a lot of history and a lot of potential.