Cressbrook Station
| Cressbrook Homestead | |
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Cressbrook Homestead with the bunya pines, 2010
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| Location | off Cressbrook-Caboombah Road, Cressbrook, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°03′28″S 152°24′17″E / 27.0578°S 152.4047°ECoordinates: 27°03′28″S 152°24′17″E / 27.0578°S 152.4047°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | 1841 - 1914 |
| Official name: Cressbrook Homestead | |
| Type | state heritage (landscape, built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600503 |
| Significant period | 1840s (historical) 1840s-1910s (fabric) |
| Significant components | residential accommodation - manager's house/quarters, residential accommodation - staff housing, stained glass window/s, kitchen/kitchen house, dairy/creamery, driveway, decorative finishes, tennis court, garden/grounds, yards - livestock, bell, tank stand, chimney/chimney stack, out building/s, tree, furniture/fittings, residential accommodation - main house, chapel, dip, shed/s, graveyard, stables, magazine / explosives store, storage tank |
 Location of Cressbrook Homestead in Queensland
Location of Cressbrook Homestead in Queensland
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Cressbrook Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at off Cressbrook-Caboombah Road, Cressbrook, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1841 to 1914. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Cressbrook Homestead was constructed as the head station of the Cressbrook Run which was taken up by the McConnel family in 1841.
David Cannon McConnel arrived in Sydney from Britain in February 1840 where he purchased sheep and started searching for a suitable pastoral lease. His search took him northward to the Moreton Bay region recently opened for selection after the closure of the penal colony. After this event, many eager British immigrants, including the Leslie Brothers, Wickham, the Bigge Brothers and John Balfour were selecting land in the Moreton Bay area. McConnel pressed northward past the rich Darling Downs into the Brisbane River Valley which became the next centre of pastoral development after land on the Darling Downs was fully selected. The Brisbane River Valley was explored by both Cunningham and Patrick Logan in the late 1820s and many squatters took up land in the early 1840s.
On 15 July 1841 David McConnel took up 240 square miles of land in the Valley, with the Brisbane River and a creek running through. David McConnel was the son of James McConnel who founded a machine making company in Manchester after which, in 1835, he became the owner of the long established and Cressbrook Mill in Derbyshire where lace thread was produced. It was here that the McConnels established their family home and it was to commemorate this place that David McConnel named his Australian property and the creek running through the property. Within one year, Francis and Frederic Bigge established the adjoining Mount Brisbane Station and six months after this John Balfour took up land on the other side of Cressbrook for his station, Colinton.
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