Slippery Run to the Butter Factory
Just past Jindyandy on the Greenwell Point Road was a ramshackle old building: holes in the walls where doors and windows used to be, roof rusted away, sheets of old tin propped up against walls.
Speculation by locals to the origins of the building were many and varied. Some said it was a jail, others claimed it was a huge house or mill, yet more said it was a dairy. They were all wrong. From as early as 1889 the building was a butter factory, Shoalhaven’s first, and at that time NSW’s largest.
Today you will see thick timber beams, open ceiling, colonial brickwork (probably convict built) and 18 inch solid walls. The restaurant is deliciously cool in summer, and during the cooler months with open fires burning, it’s cosily warm. Set on land overlooking local dairy farms, you’ll be able to enjoy the authentically rural setting and rustic fare.
