eaning 'parting of the clouds' in the
local Aboriginal (Pangarang) language,

Koendidda Country House was built in the late 1850s by Humphrey Pooley.

Pooley migrated from England as a free settler in 1853, with his wife and their first child. In a classic tale of rags to riches, Pooley found his fortune on the Victorian goldfields.

The original welcoming committee.

Local legend has it that Pooley had a vision he would find gold beneath a certain tree near Allen's Flat
- and he did! Gold which, in today's terms, would be worth a seven-figure sum.

With his new-found fortune, Pooley purchased land and set about building Koendidda.

A total of 330,000 bricks were used to build the
triple-brick walls of the house, as well as stables, wine cellars, a giant barn and other sundry buildings. The bricks were hand-made from clay gouged out of the Indigo Creek. All of the timbers - including ironbark, river red gum, Murray pine, red pine and red cedar - were milled locally. Only the doors and glass were shipped in from England.