Carcory Homestead Ruin
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Carcory Homestead Ruin, from the North, 2011
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| Location | Eyre Developmental Road, Birdsville, Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 25°14′16″S 139°33′48″E / 25.2377°S 139.5632°ECoordinates: 25°14′16″S 139°33′48″E / 25.2377°S 139.5632°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | c. 1870 - c. 1900 |
| Official name: Carcory Homestead Ruin | |
| Type | state heritage (archaeological, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600458 |
| Significant period | 1870s-1900s (historical) 1870s-1900s (fabric) |
| Significant components | yards - livestock, chimney/chimney stack, ruin/s, wall/s |
 Location of Carcory Homestead Ruin in Queensland
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Carcory Homestead Ruin is a heritage-listed former homestead and now ruins on the Eyre Developmental Road, Birdsville, Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1870 to c. 1900. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The Carcory Homestead Ruin (also spelt as Carcoory and Cacoory) is a roofless stone structure located on the northern end of Roseberth Station, eighty kilometres north of Birdsville.
Thomas Mitchell made the first exploration of the area in which Carcory Homestead is located in 1845. Explorers Burke and Wills made further investigations in 1861, and it was while searching for them that intensive exploration of the region was first undertaken. In the 1870s, this region comprised some of the last remaining unclaimed land in Queensland.
The land on which Carcory Homestead is located is believed to have been taken up about in the late 1870s as a pastoral run.
The date of construction of this homestead is unknown, although buildings of a similar construction are found in Central Australia as far south as Robe in South Australia and as far north as Boulia in Queensland. They are of significance for their illustration of a vernacular style that spread throughout central Australia, across South Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland. The origin of the style is unknown, but the architectural characteristics are immediately identifiable: built of stone with wide verandahs, they efficiently control the extremes of temperature in the hot arid interior of the continent. Where no local timber was available, and distance and the lack of good access roads or a railway created prohibitively high transportation costs.
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