Ormiston House
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Building in 2015
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| Location | Wellington Street, Ormiston, City of Redland, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°29′48″S 153°15′28″E / 27.4966°S 153.2579°ECoordinates: 27°29′48″S 153°15′28″E / 27.4966°S 153.2579°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | c. 1858 - c. 1865 |
| Official name: Ormiston House Estate | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600775 |
| Significant period | 1850s-1860s (fabric) c. 1858-1880s, 1935, 1959 (historical) |
| Significant components | tree groups - avenue of, store/s / storeroom / storehouse, garden/grounds, cairn, plantings - exotic, kitchen/kitchen house, laundry / wash house, residential accommodation - main house, objects (movable) - farming, residential accommodation - gatehouse/lodge |
 Location of Ormiston House Estate in Queensland
Ormiston House Estate (Australia)
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Ormiston House Estate is a heritage-listed plantation at Wellington Street, Ormiston, City of Redland, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1858 to c. 1865. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Ormiston House, a large, single-storeyed brick residence, was erected in stages between c.1858 and 1865 for the Hon. Louis Hope, a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council.
Hope had arrived in New South Wales in 1843, was an active participant in early Queensland economic and political life, and was instrumental in the development of the sugar industry in Queensland. In the 1850s he purchased and/or leased extensive landholdings in the Moreton region, including Kilcoy Station (in partnership with Robert Ramsey) in 1853, Shafston House at Kangaroo Point in 1854, and land in the Cleveland area overlooking Raby Bay, 1852-55.
Ormiston, said to have been named after a Hope ancestral name in Scotland, was farmed from c. 1858, and the slab hut which is now the kitchen wing at Ormiston House appears to date from this period. In the early 1860s Hope experimented first with cotton, then sugar cane.
By late 1862 the estate comprised just under 325 hectares of fenced land. Improvements included an established ornamental garden, 8 hectares under sugarcane, 5.25 hectares under corn, saltpans producing up to 4 tonnes of salt per day, a small brick house, a slab hut containing a kitchen, oven and two small rooms, huts for the farm workers, an overseer's house, a barn, stockyard and milking yards. Water was obtained from wells and waterholes on the property. In 1863 Hope acquired extensive adjacent lands from Post-Master General Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior.
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