Horsley - Historic buildings

'Horsley' historic homestead - Bong Bong Road, West Dapto. c1850

'Horsley' is the main building of a group of an early Victorian style. It is stuccoed brick on stone footings with a slate hipped roof. The original part had 4 rooms with a central hall, side wings were added shortly after. The front door is 4 panelled with a fanlight. This building is a dairy farm homestead setting and it includes gardens and outbuildings. It has a high level of integrity with architectural and landscape value. (City Of Wollongong Heritage Study, 1991)

The house was made entirely of mud bricks from the property and the woodwork, including the roof battens, is cedar. The front elevation of the house very clearly resembled 'Horsley Park', Smithfield also a property of William Frederick Weston. (McDonald, 1976)

'Horsley' outbuildings and garden. - Bong Bong Road, West Dapto.

This is a rare grouping of buildings with architectural and landscape value. The farm buildings are simple Victorian Georgian design. There is a dairy and cheese room, rubble stone kitchen, stone barn, slab stables, and one of the first ferro-cement circular silos. It has a well developed garden. (City of Wollongong Heritage Study, 1991)

The following buildings are at 'Horsley':
- Stable and Coach House
- Main House
- The old kitchen and maids room
- The original dairy and cheese factory/laundry
- The barn
- The blacksmith's shed
- The first silo - the first round reinforced concrete silo in Australia. (Horsley Historic Homestead, 1980)

'Heriot Hill' - house end of Bong Bong Road West Dapto. c 1850?

This is a weatherboard cottage with corrugated metal roof. There appears to be a late Georgian Cottage section between the old kitchen and residence which has been filled in. There is a sandstone fireplace, it was originally believed to be a sheep farm. (City of Wollongong Heritage Study, 1991)