Timber Weatherboards Colour:N/A A concrete ramp drops into

A concrete ramp drops into the two-level basement of the former Balmain Leagues Club

paint peeling from every wall

Corrugated iron became the standard cladding for Australian woolsheds from the 1850s

Front Yard at Lake Macquarie

Timber Weatherboards Colour:N/A A concrete ramp drops intoLayers of grey paint peel from timber weatherboards on a derelict selector's cottage in rural New South Wales, raw wood exposed where decades of weather have done their work. Structures like this one represent the later period of pastoral settlement, post 1880s weatherboard construction marking a step up from the slab huts that preceded them. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.