Jondaryan Homestead
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Jondaryan Homestead, 2003
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| Location | Evanslea Road, Jondaryan, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°24′03″S 151°34′31″E / 27.4009°S 151.5753°ECoordinates: 27°24′03″S 151°34′31″E / 27.4009°S 151.5753°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | 1844 - 1937 |
| Official name: Jondaryan Homestead | |
| Type | state heritage (landscape, built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600635 |
| Significant period | 1840s-1860s (historical) 1840s-1860s (fabric) |
| Significant components | dairy/creamery, store/s / storeroom / storehouse, conservatory / glasshouse / greenhouse, residential accommodation - main house, residential accommodation - shearers' quarters, stalls - livestock, meat house, butcher's shop / killing shed / slaughter house (pastoral), garden/grounds, out building/s, kitchen/kitchen house, stables, chimney/chimney stack |
 Location of Jondaryan Homestead in Queensland
Location of Jondaryan Homestead in Queensland
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Jondaryan Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Evanslea Road, Jondaryan, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It was the base of the former Jondaryan pastoral station, which was originally taken up in 1840, and at one time was the largest freehold station in Queensland. The site contains the current house, which was built after the original was destroyed by fire in 1937, the original kitchen dating from 1844, and a kitchen, butcher's shop, shearer's quarters, stables, dairy, toilet block and store, many dating from the 1860s. It also contains the remains of horse stalls, a slaughterhouse, hide store, and Chinese gardener's glasshouse. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The original pastoral station was first subdivided in 1908, with further sales of land in the 1920s, and it ceased to exist as a station when the owners, Jondaryan Estates, went into voluntary liquidation in 1946. The homestead site and 2,000 acres of land remained with the grandson of the company's founder, but the remainder of the property, including the Jondaryan Woolshed, was sold and subdivided. The woolshed is now a museum and tourist attraction, and is separately listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.
Jondaryan station was originally taken up in 1840 by Henry Dennis and the homestead site today includes a number of early buildings, including the kitchen from the original homestead erected in 1844 and several outbuildings constructed during the early 1860s.
In 1840 the search for pastoral land in New South Wales extended north to the Darling Downs. The Leslie brothers followed the path of Allan Cunningham onto the Downs in 1840 and established at Canning Downs the first station in the district. Other squatters soon followed. Jondaryan station was taken up by Henry Dennis, an employee of Sir Richard Todd Scougall of Liverpool Plains station in New South Wales, during this initial push into the region. Along with the Jondaryan lands he claimed the Jimbour Station and Myall Creek properties for Scougall. However, he failed to register the claim to Jondaryan and in 1842 Charles Coxen took up the estate.
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