“In the 1820s many people in the colony had only basic housing. Assigned convicts slept outside on the ground, in tents, or in a shed or barn. Many settlers had a slab hut made from wattle and daub with a bark roof and a parget wooden chimney. A parget chimney was lined with lime mortar, hair and cow dung. Wattle and daub was a popular building material for making the walls of a hut. It was constructed with thin branches or slats between upright stakes that were slotted between timber framing to make an infill panel or to form the whole wall. Some wattle-and-daub huts had their kitchens outside to keep out the smells and to prevent fire.”1
“In the 1820s many people in the colony had only basic housing. Assigned convicts slept outside on the ground, in tents, or in a shed or barn. Many set
