Backyard cattle with paint chips and debris

with paint chips and debris across the floor and light falling through a line of open doorways

This was the residence half of a combined post-office and family home that operated from 1 November 1869 until 1945

light falling through broken windows onto dust-covered surfaces

The building is one of the rural vernacular structures Brett Patman photographed across the Hunter Valley between 2016 and 2019

Backyard cattle with paint chips and debrisThe backyard of Leichhardt House, a slab timber cottage built around 1890 in the Southern Tablelands, NSW. Rusting metal and overgrown grass fill a domestic space that has long since passed from household use to agricultural storage. The building itself remains structurally sound and in active use today. Part of the Leichhardt House series.