Castleholme Homestead
| Castleholme Homestead | |
|---|---|
.jpg)
Castleholme Homestead, 1979
|
|
| Location | Bryden - Crossdale Road, Bryden, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°14′32″S 152°34′09″E / 27.2423°S 152.5691°ECoordinates: 27°14′32″S 152°34′09″E / 27.2423°S 152.5691°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | c. 1875 - 1950s |
| Official name: Castleholme Homestead, Conroy's Farm | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600491 |
| Significant period | 1870s-1890s (historical) 1870s-1890s (fabric) |
| Significant components | residential accommodation - workers' quarters, shed - hay, out building/s, stables, shed/s, fencing, barn, cow bails, yards - livestock, residential accommodation - main house |
 Location of Castleholme Homestead in Queensland
Location of Castleholme Homestead in Queensland
|
|
Castleholme Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Bryden-Crossdale Road, Bryden, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1875 to the 1950s. It is also known as Conroy's Farm. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Castleholme was established in the 1870s, following Hugh Conroy's selection and purchase of the then 257 hectare property in 1875. By 1916 a small cedar dwelling at Castleholme had become a rambling, fourteen-roomed house with wide verandahs. By that time the grounds included flowerbeds, shrubs and shade trees, and substantial outbuildings, and the principal activity was dairying. Castleholme remained in the Conroy family until acquired in 1978 by the Queensland Government, as part of the Wivenhoe Dam reclamation area. That part of the property not inundated was leased by the Queensland Institute of Technology (QIT) for use as an experimental building station. The Castleholme homestead complex was identified by the QIT as a conservation area and the interwar cottage was renovated as caretaker accommodation. The QIT (now Queensland University of Technology) maintains the grounds, but not the buildings.
Castleholme consists of the remains of a homestead, slab barn, cottage, stables and associated farm buildings and stockyards with a number of mature trees. It is located in the Brisbane Valley on a northeastern slope, is visible from the Bryden-Crossdale Road and borders the Bryden Catholic Cemetery. The domestic structures are located in a group to the north with the outbuildings forming a southern boundary. Other structures include the remains of a timber laundry shed and a bakehouse, post and rail fencing, a calf pen and cow bails.
Castleholme Homestead was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.
...
Wikipedia