Ironmungie Road Woolshed nothhcote Ken House occupies a two-storey

Ken House occupies a two-storey commercial building in Shimizusawa

its corrugated iron roof consumed by rust

documenting vernacular rural homesteads across the Snowy Monaro region and Hunter Valley

photographed in 2015 while the factory sat abandoned

ground broken in 1880 and first occupied in 1884

Ironmungie Road Woolshed nothhcote Ken House occupies a two-storeyMismatched corrugated iron panels cover the walls of this large rural woolshed, rust bleeding across the ridgeline where the sheets meet. The gable end faces open pasture under a heavy, cloud layered sky. Corrugated galvanised iron became the dominant cladding material for Australian rural buildings from the 1850s, suited to a pastoral climate that asked a lot of its structures. Part of The Woolshed series.