Australian Country Homes

At home with history

The precise reason is lost in the mists of time but when the Tunney family built their homestead at Spring Park, they installed a hallway the size of a cricket pitch. Precisely. The present owners, Lil and Richard Westmacott, who bought the property near Young in the NSW south-western slopes in 1986, understand the hall was designed to be wide enough to accommodate a dray carrying the granite blocks, which had been

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