The Surveyor General Inn was built in 1834 for James Harper, and licensed a year later - it is Australia’s oldest continuously licensed Inn. Built of local sandstone, rendered sand stock bricks, and shingle roof, it was constructed using convict labour. Berrima was at the time a new village, on the new line of road south surveyed by Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor General of the colony of New South Wales, where the road crossed the Wingecarribee River.