Springfield Drovers Hut empty room dry country

dry country

nozzle thick with old grease

This is the vernacular architecture of the selector era: modest

The extension sits within a building that has been continuously licensed since 1859

Sunlight cuts across the loading bay at Peters Creameries Pty Ltd Factory

Springfield Drovers Hut empty room dry countryWeathered timber walls and a corrugated iron roof give the Springfield Drovers Hut its characteristic form, the structure long exposed to the seasonal extremes of rural New South Wales. Drovers' huts like this one were built to shelter stockmen on long cattle drives across the region, single room shelters in a landscape that demanded practicality above everything else. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.