Castleholme Homestead

Castleholme Homestead

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°E / -27.2423; 152.5691Coordinates: 27°14′32″S 152°34′09″E / 27.2423°S 152.5691°E / -27.2423; 152.5691
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

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

Hugh Conroy

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

Bryden cemetery

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Castleholme Homestead (entry 600491)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

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).

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