The Virtual Sydney Rocks Guidebook

Bark Huts and Wattle and Daub Cottages

Missing Image
Group of men and boys outside a slab hut butcher's shop with bark roof,
Tambaroora, New South Wales, ca.1872
A2822978 - Neg.No.80017, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
Missing Image
Group of men outside a slab hut butcher's shop with bark roof,
Tambaroora, New South Wales, ca.1872
A2823011 - Neg.No.70120, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
Missing Image
Family outside slab hut with bark roof,
Gulgong 1870-1875
ON 4 Box 2 No 18228, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Missing Image
Rendered whitewashed cottage and wattle and daub shed with bark roof,
Hill End, New South Wales, ca.1872
nla.obj-148037503 National Library of Australia
Missing Image
Woman outside partly finished wattle and daub cottage with corrugated iron roof,
Hill End, New South Wales, ca.1872
nla.obj-148085163 National Library of Australia

The convicts of the First Fleet constructed simple huts using wattle and daub for the walls and bark or thatch for the roof.

Further Information

Big Dig
Big Dig People
Big Dig Buildings
Main Menu