The main buildings are constructed from rubble masonry and have corrugated iron roofs, mostly with Pilbara vaulting.
Emma Withnell was known as Mother of the North West among the Aborigine people in the area as she often tended to the sick and delivered babies in her own house.
The fire cost Withnell and Meares a paddock 20 miles (32 km) long that has been destocked for 6 months in preparation for lambing.
[6] The station suffered damage to the homestead, stables and outbuildings along with the loss of 8,000 sheep following a storm and resulting floods in 1894.
[7] A devastating cyclone tore through the area in 1898, with an Aboriginal woman being swept away along with her mia in the resulting flood waters.
[11] In 1912 two kangaroo hunters, Carl Hedman and Frank Deschow, were arrested at the station for sheep stealing.
Grasses growing over 1 foot (0.30 m) and good lambing numbers were reported at Sherlock and surrounding stations, Pyramid and Malina.
[19] Cyclone Shirley struck the Pilbara coast in April 1966 and dumped 404 millimetres (16 in) of rain on the station.