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This is a list of historic houses or notable homesteads located in Australia. The list has been sourced from a variety of national, state and local historical sources including those listed on the Australian Heritage Database , on the various heritage registers of the States and territories of Australia , or by the National Trust of Australia .
The small, solid three-roomed brick cottage in the Australian Old Colonial style was transformed, by the late 1820s, into a smart country house, surrounded by 'pleasure grounds', orchards and almost 400 hectares (1,000 acres) of semi-cleared land. Enveloped within later extensions, the early cottage remains intact, making it Australia's oldest ...
Description. Anna Creek Station has an area of 23,677 km 2 (9,142 sq mi; 5,851,000 acres). [3] It is 8,000 km 2 (2,000,000 acres; 3,100 sq mi) larger than its nearest rival, Alexandria Station in the country's Northern Territory. It is over seven times the size of the United States ' biggest ranch, King Ranch in Texas, which is 3,340 km 2 ...
Designated RTHL. 1978. Heritage Farmstead Museum (also known as the Ammie Wilson House) is a historic farm museum at 1900 West 15th Street in Plano, Texas. The late- Victorian farm-house was built in 1891 on a 365-acre farm belonging to Mary Alice Farrell and her husband Hunter Farrell, a landowner and businessman whose family had moved to ...
Grounds. 520,527 acres. Waggonner Ranch in 2023. The Waggoner Ranch is a historic ranch located 13 miles south of Vernon, Texas, in north Texas near the Red River and Oklahoma border. Founded in 1852 by Daniel Waggoner, [2] it is the largest ranch within one fence in the United States. [3][4] The land has been used to raise crops, beef cattle ...
One of the original small farm houses of York. Hipped roof cottage with a front verandah set on a rural block on the outskirts of town. Originally a farmhouse, it was later used as a guesthouse. 780 Spice Rd Shire register - 31 Dec 1995 5961 Cotmore A previous owner of the building, a Mr Henderson, developed a brickworks at the rear of the ...
Period: c. 1790–1920. Materials: Timber, bark, mud, clay, stone, Galvanized iron. Uses: dwellings, shops, farm outbuildings. A slab hut is a kind of dwelling or shed made from slabs of split or sawn timber. It was a common form of construction used by settlers in Australia and New Zealand during their nations' colonial periods.
Home in the Queenslander style. Australian residential architectural styles have evolved significantly over time, from the early days of structures made from relatively cheap and imported corrugated iron (which can still be seen in the roofing of historic homes) to more sophisticated styles borrowed from other countries, such as the California bungalow from the United States, the Georgian ...