 The hotel is constructed of sandstone mined from Mount Poole, New South Wales and brought to Noccundra by camel train.Noccundra was spelt Nocundra originally, and its post office under that name opened on 11 October 1890 (a receiving office had been open from 1889) and closed in 1933.In the , Nockatunga had a population of 11 people.