B9 Schoolhouse

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This was the School teacher’s house from the North Jindong State School which has been reinterpreted as a country wheatbelt style one room school.

The building is timber framed with painted, square edged weatherboard cladding. It has a gabled corrugated iron roof with wide battened eaves. The floor plan includes a single rectangular room, with a wide, semi- enclosed veranda. Internally the building has a timber floor and panel and batten cladding to the walls and ceiling.

The entrance has a timber ledge with a brace door and the single 9-pane window is horizontally pivoted.

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cwa-org-124-B9

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In September 1983 the School teacher’s house was relocated, in one piece, from the North Jindong State School site by contractor Ashley Rains. The Busselton Historical Society paid $5,000 to restore and reinterpret the building as a country wheatbelt style one room school. This is not meant to be a Group School as they were much larger.

Mrs May Mardon opened the Schoolhouse exhibit on Wednesday evening January 18th1984 after she had given a brief talk on her experiences as a teacher at a small school in Marybrook in 1922

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