I don't see how the surveyor would just "know" which lot 3 it is. First thing they would need to know, what is the DP or section number.
That ad requesting the title transfer, also appears in the SMH of 9 dec 1882. If you look at the following entries for a block at Quirindi, it says, lot 16 of section 10. And the one after that, at Chippendale, says lot 12 of DP 98. That's what it should say. The Coolah one is defective. As it says at the bottom of the ad, go to the Registrar and inspect the diagram.
I have checked the conditions of use of the street images from Google Street View, and changed the previous post to link to the Google Street view website, which is their prefered and authorised method of posting the image, because it enables them to change, update or alter, the image later.
To answer the OP's original question, I have never seen any actual photo of Coolah earlier than 1904. I am also not aware of any extant buildings from the 19th century. The shops and pubs were all rebuilt in a bout of enthusiasm in the early 20th century, quite a while after Rowe died.
The type of buildings that they would have had, changed a lot in the late 19th century in a relatively short space of time. There are many early photos of Gulgong from the 1870s and you can see the sort of crappy buildings they had there. I posted some links before, to photos from the university of newcastle collection, I think, of some photos of pubs in villages near Coolah, believed to have been taken in 1900. And you can see online the two-storey pub rebuilt in 1902 and hardly changed since. So, there was more change in style between 1870 and 1902, than in the 112 years since 1902.
