WORK is yet to start on rebuilding the historic Carngham station homestead almost two years after it was gutted by fire.
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Owner Jackie Hardman said she still intended to get it done, despite the delay.
“There’s still no progress on the main house, but we rebuilt the little gate house by the road in February,” she said. “We’re quite happy in the gate house.”
The station – built in the early 1920s after the previous homestead burnt down – was demolished in late 2013 after the extent of damage caused in the Carngham bushfires was found to be irreparable.
Ms Hardman estimated the rebuild would take two years, when speaking to The Courier in January.
A history of the site, written by the Snake Valley and District Historical Society, details the homestead’s repeated run-ins with fire, with various fires taking out parts of the property before it first burnt down in 1918.
The homestead that replaced it was gutted by the Carngham fire in 2013.
Ms Hardman said the project was still on her mind.
“I was actually talking about it this weekend, coming up with some plans,” she said.
After the 2013 fire, work continued on the angus cattle property, which Ms Hardman bought in 2006.