Price family lists iconic Murrindal homestead for sale in East Gippsland

The property could soon have new owners for the first time in 160 years.

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00:00It's just an iconic house with a lot of history that we like to see brought back to life and

00:06someone to come and love it and bring it back to what it was years ago.

00:10Scottish family come out in the early 1860s and built the house.

00:15They sourced all their timber and rock from the land.

00:19The limestone walls are 18 inches thick.

00:21There's two parts to the house.

00:22There's two families have lived in here over the years.

00:25There's a kitchen at each end of the house.

00:29Only one bathroom but there's living quarters for two families.

00:32Early days there was a lot of workers here.

00:35There's a lot of infrastructure and they're all self-sufficient.

00:38They lived off the land here.

00:39They had their own bakery etc.

00:43Even a slight grog shop and it was used as a halfway house because it was all horse and cart.

00:48It moved down through the families through four generations of the family.

00:52This is old copper here that we when we were kids.

00:55Mum used to bath us in and we had a hot water.

00:59It used to also heat the water overhead.

01:02A system that it used to heat the water.

01:04Used to have the fire underneath and that was used until yeah probably.

01:10I miss the scrubber.

01:11Scrubber washing my hands until we were sort of I was eight or ten years old.

01:16This is the original wool shed and the property was built just a few years after the main house.

01:21Probably the late 1860s.

01:23All this timber was sourced and done by hand and it's the only wool shed,

01:26original wool shed in the district now.

01:28There's a lot of fun in our life and joy and we just like to see it bring back to life.

01:33It's got a lot of history and a lot of potential.