Yarralumla Woolshed, Australian Capital Territory

The Yarralumla Woolshed in the Australian Capital Territory is a building of historical significance and is listed on the Act Heritage Register.

[2] The shed was built in 1904 by Frederick Campbell who at that time owned Yarralumla Homestead which is now Government House.

Today the woolshed is owned by the ACT Government and is an important community social centre and a venue for folk concerts, bush dances and is available for weddings.

In 1898 a reporter from the Australasian Pastoralist's review visited Yarralumla and said that Mr Campbell had 32,000 merinos and 2000 crossbred sheep.

So in 1904 he asked the builder Frederick Young who had previously built Yarralumla Homestead to construct the woolshed.

In 1927 the then Governor-General Lord Stonehaven who was resident in the Yarralumla Homestead which had been converted to Government House argued that the Woolshed should be retained because of its link with the wool industry.

Another was George Lochart Nairn McInnes who was also a shearer and who owned the property “Riverview” in Tuggeranong which later became the suburb of Gordon.