A Neglected Icon

In the early 1990s the Twynam Group purchased Toganmain. The Twynam Group's main interest was in large scale cropping, hence the woolshed was left unused and unloved. Bereft of its former functions, the woolshed, its adjacent shearer's quarters and many buildings in the woolstore precinct next to the river started to deteriorate.

In 2010, Macquarie Bank's Pastoral Fund Paraway purchased Toganmain, and three adjacent properties - Steam Plains, Pooginook, and Cooinbil - to create the massive 220,022 acre Cooinbil Station. By then, the wool store buildings beside the river, and the northwest corner of the woolshed were derelict, with no plan in place for their conservation. Roofing iron had been blown off the woolshed roof, and the structure was becoming increasingly vulnerable.