Old Laura Homestead
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Old Laura Homestead, 1998
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| Location | Lakefield National Park, Lakefield, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 15°20′43″S 144°27′14″E / 15.3454°S 144.4538°ECoordinates: 15°20′43″S 144°27′14″E / 15.3454°S 144.4538°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1902 - |
| Official name: Old Laura Homestead, Laura Homestead | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 28 July 2000 |
| Reference no. | 602210 |
| Significant period | 1870s-1890s (historical) ongoing (social) |
| Significant components | meat house, garden/grounds, trees/plantings, yards - livestock, fencing, dip, burial ground, out building/s, shed - storage, residential accommodation - workers' quarters, residential accommodation - main house |
 Location of Old Laura Homestead in Queensland
Location of Old Laura Homestead in Queensland
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Old Laura Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead in Lakefield National Park, Lakefield, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1902 onwards. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 July 2000.
The earliest record of an official application for a license to occupy a new run on the lower Laura River was made by Peter McDermott and Fergus O'Beirne on 14 October 1879. Occupational licenses were granted for twelve month terms and could be converted to form part of a pastoral lease once the run had been stocked to one quarter of its grazing capacity. Brixton and Fox Vale (Old Fairview) runs on the Little Laura River, Boralga Spring and the better grazing country on the Kennedy River at Lakefield and Breeza Plains, had already been occupied and unofficially stocked by this period.
McDermott and O'Beirne were cousins from Ireland who had travelled overland from Rockhampton to Cooktown where they established a butcher's business and resided. O'Beirne was accompanied by his wife, Mary, and two small children, John and Julia. Their third child, Margaret, was born in Cooktown in 1880 and was followed by four other children - Matthew, Fergus, Roderick, and Kathleen.
The elements that make up Old Laura Homestead include station buildings, stockyards, structural foundations and footings, native and introduced trees and vegetation, and the homestead grounds.
The main house is a two-room high-set timber-frame building clad with corrugated galvanised iron. The building is elevated on bush timber stumps of a local ironwood. Two upstairs bedrooms form a central core with enclosed verandahs on three sides. The upstairs floor is of pit-sawn boards on a pit-sawn frame. Upstairs rooms are externally clad with wide horizontal chamferboards, beaded on the inside at joints to give a narrow pattern on the interior. The rooms are internally clad with narrower horizontal boards that also form the ceiling. Internal cross-wall partitions are clad in corrugated iron on sawn timber studs. Bays of timber louvre shutters enclose the front and sides of the upstairs verandah area above the former handrail. Corrugated iron cladding has been added below the handrail. The verandah area also contains corrugated iron push-out shutters. A gable hip roof clad with corrugated iron covers the central core of the building. Roof rafters are of sapling bush timber. Original purlins are pit sawn, with some milled timber purlins introduced c. 1940 and in 1986.
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