Franklyn Vale Homestead
| Franklyn Vale Homestead | |
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Building in 2015
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| Location | Franklin Vale Road, Mount Mort, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°45′35″S 152°27′23″E / 27.7596°S 152.4564°ECoordinates: 27°45′35″S 152°27′23″E / 27.7596°S 152.4564°E |
| Architect | Addison & Corrie, Robin Dods |
| Official name: Franklyn Vale Homestead | |
| Type | state heritage (landscape, built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600728 |
| Significant period | 1870s-1890s (historical) |
| Significant components | trees/plantings, garden/grounds, out building/s, tennis court, tank stand, meat house, shed/s, residential accommodation - main house, kitchen/kitchen house, school/school room |
 Location of Franklyn Vale Homestead in Queensland
Location of Franklyn Vale Homestead in Queensland
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Franklyn Vale Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Franklin Vale Road, Mount Mort, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was built in the early 1870s. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The present Franklyn Vale Homestead was erected in the early 1870s for Mr & Mrs Edward Crace, son-in-law and daughter of Henry Mort, the owner of the property. It replaced an 1849 slab dwelling, which then was used as a stables until demolished c.1949.
Originally, Franklyn Vale Station was part of the 60,000 hectare Laidley Plains leasehold which, along with Beau Desert, was taken up as a sheep run in 1843 by NSW squatter JP Robinson. The Laidley Plains run extended across the Franklin Valley, named after Sir John Franklin, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1837-43, and identified on Dixon's 1842 map of the Moreton Bay district.
In 1849 the lease and 13,000 sheep passed to Sydney businessman Thomas Sutcliffe Mort. His brother, Henry Jonathan Mort, who had been managing Cressbrook Station in the Brisbane River Valley for DC McConnel, then moved onto Laidley Plains as manager. In the early 1850s Henry began the conversion of Laidley Plains into a cattle station. In 1852 the lease was transferred to Henry Mort and his brother-in-law James Laidley, with Henry managing the Franklyn Vale section of the run, and James managing the remainder as Laidley Plains. This partnership was dissolved in late 1869, by which time government resumptions had reduced Franklyn Vale to about 4,000 hectares freehold.
Henry Mort removed his family to Sydney in 1855, where he joined his brother in Mort & Co. (later Goldsbrough, Mort & Co. Ltd), and thereafter resided only intermittently at Franklyn Vale, which was run by managers. However, he maintained a strong interest in Queensland, representing West Moreton in the NSW Legislative Assembly prior to the separation of Queensland.
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