Home On the Range timber slats designed by architect George Sydney

designed by architect George Sydney Jones between 1902 and 1921

its slats buried under years of lichen and moss

from the selector's gamble of the 1860s onward to the progressive abandonment that followed

Glass production ran here from 1890 until the plant closed in January 2012

Light cuts through an opening in the attic of Mittagong Maltings

Home On the Range timber slats designed by architect George SydneyA weatherboard cottage sits low on open grazing land beneath a heavy storm front, a single poplar standing to its left and a power line running to a pole at the paddock's edge. Timber framed and iron roofed, it represents the selector's cottage typology that spread across rural New South Wales from the 1860s onward, after the Robertson Land Acts opened Crown land to smallholders. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.