Castleholme Homestead
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| Castleholme Homestead | |
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.jpg) 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 |
| 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  Castleholme Homestead (Australia) | |
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]
Castleholme was established in the 1870s, following Hugh Conroy's selection and purchase of the then 257-hectare (640-acre) 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 1978 when it became part of the Wivenhoe Dam reclamation area.
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]
