An Aboriginal family outside their cottage, one of many built at New Norcia in the second half of the 19th century. All of these stone and shingled buildings were demolished on the 20th century.

The public toilets were originally a guesthouse for visitors to the mission and later used as the town's gaol Similar cottages to the south of the church made of stone and mud-plaster with wooden-shingled roofs (which can be seen under the buildings eaves), were constructed for Aboriginal families. These cottages, numbering twenty-two in the 1880s, were demolished as New Norcia's role changed in the 20th century.

River Walk
Trail users may either continue on to the New Norcia Hotel and complete the settlement section of the trail a take the River Walk (1.7km return) across the Moore River to Bishop Torres' Beehouse. The approach to the river passes the Marian Shrine, built on the spot where Salvado is said to have turned back a bushfire with the picture of Our Lady of Good Counsel, and offers fine views of the monastery complex.

To the south is an old red-bricked house where the mission's pig-keeper used to live; the low ruins of the piggery can just be seen beyond this building.