Castleholme Homestead
| Castleholme Homestead | |
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Castleholme Homestead, 1979 | |
| Location | Bryden - Crossdale Road, Bryden, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°14′32″S 152°34′09″E / 27.2423°S 152.5691°ECoordinates: 27°14′32″S 152°34′09″E / 27.2423°S 152.5691°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | c. 1875 - 1950s |
| Official name: Castleholme Homestead, Conroy's Farm | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600491 |
| Significant period |
1870s-1890s (historical) 1870s-1890s (fabric) |
| Significant components | residential accommodation - workers' quarters, shed - hay, out building/s, stables, shed/s, fencing, barn, cow bails, yards - livestock, residential accommodation - main house |
  Location of Castleholme Homestead in Queensland  Location of Castleholme Homestead in Queensland | |
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Castleholme Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Bryden-Crossdale Road, Bryden, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1875 to the 1950s. It is also known as Conroy's Farm. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.[1]
History
Castleholme was established in the 1870s, following Hugh Conroy's selection and purchase of the then 257 hectare property in 1875. By 1916 a small cedar dwelling at Castleholme had become a rambling, fourteen-roomed house with wide verandahs. By that time the grounds included flowerbeds, shrubs and shade trees, and substantial outbuildings, and the principal activity was dairying. Castleholme remained in the Conroy family until acquired in 1978 by the Queensland Government, as part of the Wivenhoe Dam reclamation area. That part of the property not inundated was leased by the Queensland Institute of Technology (QIT) for use as an experimental building station. The Castleholme homestead complex was identified by the QIT as a conservation area and the interwar cottage was renovated as caretaker accommodation. The QIT (now Queensland University of Technology) maintains the grounds, but not the buildings.[1]
Description
Castleholme consists of the remains of a homestead, slab barn, cottage, stables and associated farm buildings and stockyards with a number of mature trees. It is located in the Brisbane Valley on a northeastern slope, is visible from the Bryden-Crossdale Road and borders the Bryden Catholic Cemetery. The domestic structures are located in a group to the north with the outbuildings forming a southern boundary. Other structures include the remains of a timber laundry shed and a bakehouse, post and rail fencing, a calf pen and cow bails.[1]
Heritage listing
Castleholme Homestead was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.[1]
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.
Castleholme is important for its association with the closer settlement of the Bryden area, its development as a dairying district, and with the Conroy family in particular.[1]
The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Queensland's history.
The place also has potential to reveal substrata evidence of the arrangement of a late 19th century dairy farm.[1]
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.
It survives as a good example of the arrangement of a working farm in southeast Queensland, demonstrating over a century an evolution in function, building type, technology and material.[1]
The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.
Castleholme is significant also for the aesthetic quality of the group of timber buildings and grounds, and for its spatial association with the adjacent St Anne's graveyard.[1]
The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.
Castleholme is significant for its historical association with the adjacent St Anne's graveyard.[1]
References
Attribution
This Wikipedia article was originally based on "The Queensland heritage register" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014). The geo-coordinates were originally computed from the "Queensland heritage register boundaries" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 5 September 2014, archived on 15 October 2014).
External links
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