Council supports Kurrumbede heritage listing

November 4, 2021

Gunnedah Shire Council has thrown its support behind listing Kurrumbede Homestead on the State Heritage Register.

The Heritage Council of NSW announced in October it was giving consideration to listing Kurrumbede Homestead Complex on the State Heritage Register in acknowledgement of its heritage significance to the people of New South Wales.

Members of the community, owners, managers, organisations and other interested parties were invited by the Heritage Council of NSW to make submissions about the proposal up until November 15, 2021.

Gunnedah Shire Councillors voted to support the move at an extraordinary meeting of Council this week.

The report to Council noted the homestead, built by the Mackellar family in 1906, was an example of a large pastoral landholding in the early 20th century, had been a second home to famous poet Dorothea Mackellar, and had an association with Olympic swimmer Andrew “Boy” Charlton who was a station hand at Kurrumbede.

The homestead, a grand rural residence set within formal gardens, is one of the earliest concrete block residential structures in New South Wales.

Caption: Council will support a move to list Kurrumbede on the State Heritage Register.

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