Dundullimal Homestead

Dundullimal Homestead is a heritage-listed timber-slab homestead located about 7 kilometres southwest of Dubbo in New South Wales. Built around 1842, it is the oldest surviving timber slab homestead open to the public in Australia. Managed by the National Trust of Australia (NSW), the property includes the main homestead, stables, outbuildings and rural grounds that illustrate early colonial pastoral life on Wiradjuri Country.

Visitors can explore the main timber-slab homestead with its original cypress pine slab walls, shingle roof and period furnishings, along with stables, blacksmith shop, coach house and other outbuildings set in open rural grounds. The site offers guided tours explaining colonial construction techniques and pastoral life, displays of National Trust collections, and picnic areas surrounded by paddocks southwest of Dubbo.

Built c.1842-1843 by John Maughan, a former convict, Dundullimal Homestead is the oldest surviving timber slab homestead in Australia. It represents early colonial pastoral expansion in the Dubbo district and was occupied by the Baird family for about 75 years. The complex retains its original slab homestead, stables and outbuildings and is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register as a rare example of colonial vernacular architecture.

The homestead illustrates colonial pastoral life and vernacular building techniques using local cypress pine on Wiradjuri Country. Managed by the National Trust of Australia (NSW), it serves as an educational heritage site preserving early settlement history and rural cultural heritage of the Central West region of New South Wales.