Kilcoy Homestead
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Building in 2015
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| Location | Kilcoy-Murgon Road, Kilcoy, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 26°55′42″S 152°34′20″E / 26.9282°S 152.5721°ECoordinates: 26°55′42″S 152°34′20″E / 26.9282°S 152.5721°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | c. 1857 |
| Official name: Kilcoy Homestead | |
| Type | state heritage (landscape, built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600638 |
| Significant period | 1850s (historical) 1850s (fabric) |
| Significant components | garden/grounds, shed/s, trees/plantings, residential accommodation - main house |
 Location of Kilcoy Homestead in Queensland
Location of Kilcoy Homestead in Queensland
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Kilcoy Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Kilcoy-Murgon Road, Winya, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built c. 1857. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Kilcoy Homestead, a single-storeyed, substantial brick residence, was constructed c.1857, for the Hon. Louis Hope, British aristocrat and Queensland grazier, sugar plantation owner and politician. The remnants of the early brick cottage on the site, also erected for Hope, date to the mid-1860s.
The Kilcoy run had been taken up as a sheep station by brothers Evan and Colin Mackenzie, of Kilcoy, Scotland, who had started clearing the land and erecting huts by early July 1841. In October that year they secured the run officially, taking out the second pastoral licence issued for the Upper Brisbane Valley. In the New South Wales Government Gazette of 11 May 1848, Kilcoy was described as comprising over 35,000 acres (14,000 hectares), bounded on the south by Frederic and Francis Bigge's Mt Brisbane Station, on the east by the Archers' Durundur Station, on the west by John Balfour's Colinton run, and to the north by the mountains separating Wide Bay from the Brisbane Valley. Establishment of Kilcoy station was resisted by the indigenous population, and the run is infamous for the mass poisoning of Aborigines that occurred there in February 1842.
As on most early stations, the first Kilcoy head station, erected in mid-1841, was a simple slab hut. In 1844 this was replaced by a brick dwelling, described in February 1845 as containing five rooms - one a large sitting room 20 feet by 20 feet and four bedrooms 10 by 10 feet opening from the parlour - with a verandah in front. The kitchen, which may have been the early slab dwelling, stood about 40 yards from the rear of the new residence, and was demolished c. 1928.
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