Early homes in Kangaroo Valley were small dwellings built of roughly-cut timber slab walls, a bark roof and earthen floor. Holes appeared between the timber slabs in the walls. Some were built with logs and shingled, with the chimney being a wide wooden structure added on at the end of the building so that a fire could be contained in this part of the building. Most of these timber dwellings no longer exist.
Traditional timber-framed constructions followed with foundations and fireplaces made with brick or stone. Walls were with horizontal timber weatherboards and the pitched roofs were mostly clad with corrugated iron. Most have a generous porch or veranda.
Phillip Baker and Alan Dicker, Kangaroo Valley, A Conservation Study, Bachelor of Architecture (Honours), University of Sydney 1981.
