 The first buildings erected at Gunnawarra were of slab construction and included a saddle shed and adjoining quarters.The earliest section of the homestead building was constructed in 1878 and is located on Bell's Creek, a tributary of the Herbert River.Jack Broad, who also built Kirrama homestead, constructed it of slabs with locally cut cypress pine for the uprights and rafters; stringy bark was carted from over twenty miles away for the shingles and hand adzed slabs.