first cottage. There is also a detached dairy (creamery) adjacent to the west of the house constructed from bricks similar to those used in the house. The dairy was converted to a cheese and butter factory in c.1880 using beaded timber partitions. The house, kitchen and dairy have slate roofs. The farm buildings form a row. The easternmost building is the random rubble stable which retains timber stalls and stone floor. The original slate roof has been replaced with corrugated iron. The loft was used as a corn store. Across the driveway is a timber framed, corrugated iron milking shed with the bails removed and a chaff cutting area. This is adjacent to an early (1909) reinforced concrete silo which has a replacement hexagonal timber roof. The westernmost building is a large cow shed built using natural round posts and rails to form two rows of stalls with a central aisle. This is the only local example of a cow shed where the cows were tethered using traditional fixtures. The original 500 acre property has been subdivided multiple times. However the remaining 2.071 hectares contains the original farm buildings and significant landscape elements. The buildings have been well maintained. The buildings and their setting remain significantly intact. Modifications and dates 1818 - Site was occupied. The stone rubble kitchen may be an earlier cottage from the establishment phase. 1842 or earlier - central hall and 4 rooms. Dairy (creamery); Horsley butter fetched 4 shillings / pound in Sydney in the 1850s; Stables 1872 Eastern and western rooms of house added. 1880 - Dairy (creamery) used as cheese factory, access track from north is likely to have still been in use. 1909 - reinforced concrete silo, early for district; ( Alne Bank, Gerringong 1908) date of milking bail shed / chaff cutting shed, cow shed is unknown, likely to relate to silo. 1971 - cheese and butter making tools donated to Illawarra Historical Society Museum. 1980 -Hazeltons Grocery Hardware and Haberdashery shop was moved to Horsley from Albion Park; public WC built; silo re-roofed. Early/mid 1980s room built between house & dairy, retained dairy as separate building. Heritage listing Horsley Homestead is a rare intact example of a 19th-century Georgian style farm complex and garden in Illawarra. The property was one of the earliest to be owner occupied and was associated with the Lindsay family who was influential in the dairy