The Wonnerup farmhouse, ten kilometres east of Busselton, was built in stages between 1838 and 1859 by the Layman family — one of the very first European settler families on the south coast. The simple jarrah-and-stone house, with its outbuildings, schoolroom, and dairy, is one of the most complete colonial farmsteads in Australia, now run as a house museum by the National Trust.
The interpretation is uneven: the Layman family story is told in detail; the massacre of Wardandi Noongar people that gave the same family its grip on the land is acknowledged but lightly handled. Open weekend afternoons; small admission.