Blundells Cottage

This modest stone farm cottage stands on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin near the National Carillon and is one of the few colonial-era buildings surviving in central Canberra. Built around 1860 for workers on the vast Duntroon estate, it predates the capital itself and offers a rare glimpse of rural life on the Limestone Plains before the city was planned. Restored and furnished in period style, it operates as a small house museum interpreting the lives of the labouring families who occupied it.