Adelaide Rosella
North Bundaleer – built 1901
There is a possibility that Cornish stone masons were hired for the fine dressed stonework since Cornish workers built many of the engine houses and tall chimney stacks for mining works in the Burra area.
Native lily in the garden here
Pears being protected until ready for bottling !
All the fruits here, for example; peaches, plums,lemons and cumquats are either bottled or made into jams and conserves. Also cumquat and Seville marmalades! All stored in an a cool dark cellar.
Bread, cakes and main meals are all prepared from fresh ingredients and baked in a magnificent Aga.
In addition there is an olive grove where creamy green olives are prepared for the table and Blue Gum honey!
Original brick cover over a large water storage tank below. Years of rubbish inside the dome and tank, had to be removed before being restored to supply cool, pure drinking water for the household.
One of a pair of extraordinarily beautiful curved stained glass windows. The other one has similar foliage with butterflies instead of the bird.
North Bundaleer was entered in the State Heritage Register 1983 and on the Recorded List of the National Trust of South Australia in 1984
Although the house was listed, the National Trust SA has only the capacity to advise.
Neglected for almost a century, and totally abandoned for 25 years, North Bundaleer became a crumbling ruin hidden from the world, its long driveway completely overgrown.
With remarkable foresight, the curved stained glass windows were removed for safe keeping by the National Trust SA and returned only when the house was being restored during almost four years of intensive restoration and building work.
One of the paintings in the Drawing Room - Artist - Henri Maik
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