33-568: Nindooinbah Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Nindooinbah Connection Road, Nindooinbah , Scenic Rim Region , Queensland , Australia. It was built from c. 1858 to 1907. It is also known as Nindooinbah House. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. The first stage of this one-storeyed timber house was L-shaped and built about 1860. After extensions by Robin Dods in 1906-7
66-406: A canted bay window ) and rectangle . But other polygonal shapes with more than two corners are also common, as are curved shapes. If a bay window is curved it may alternatively be called bow window . Bay windows in a triangular shape with just one corner exist, but are relatively rare. A bay window supported by a corbel , bracket or similar is called an oriel window . " Rawashin "
99-422: A corridor that links the courtyard verandah with the northeast verandah. The southeast wing, facing the garden and the view, houses the original drawing room and dining room and the new dining room, guest room and toilets. The Dods' designed dining room, adjacent to the 1858 building, has features not found elsewhere in the house; silky oak panelling, a vaulted ornamental plaster ceiling, bay windows protruding onto
132-458: A dining room lined with tongue-in-groove boards. The northern end of the building has subsided and parts of the fabric are in poor condition. The house, especially the fragile interiors and furnishings are remarkably intact. The garden is well maintained. Outbuildings related to the activities of the property continue to be used and maintained. Nindooinbah Homestead was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied
165-440: A fixed sash, flanked by two or more smaller windows, known as casement or double-hung windows. The arrangement creates a panoramic view of the outside, allows more natural light to enter the room, and provides additional space within the room. Bay windows are often designed to extend beyond the exterior wall, forming a small nook or seating area inside, which can be used for various purposes such as reading, display, or simply enjoying
198-421: A grotto, tennis court, and garden sheds. Other buildings on site but beyond the homes enclosing fence includes an artists studio and flag pole, the managers house, garages, men's quarters, woolshed, cattle yards and remains of the stables, butchers shop, cold-room and icemaking room. The woolshed was built as a permanent structure by 1857. It probably included shearers quarters and a dining room. From about 1863,
231-418: A mixture of a formal and picturesque layout. Avenues of palms mark paths to the house and specimen trees such as figs and bunya pines frame distant views. Formal flower beds are planted close to the house on the southeast and northwest sides. The garden contains a tennis court, fish pond and various pavilions. These include recent additions of a studio on the knoll in front of the house, once a cottage attached to
264-622: A particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. The property has associations with squatters AW Compigne, R Towns, WD and E White and the Collins family. The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history. It is an important example of the work of the architect RS Dods, which demonstrates his skill in adapting an older building. [REDACTED] This Misplaced Pages article
297-414: Is a single-storeyed building, clad in weatherboards and set on timber stumps. The large hipped roofed central space or nave has attached skillion roofed wings on three sides. Beneath the corrugated iron roof are remains of the earlier shingled roof. In the northwest part of the building are remnants of the original slatted timber floor. Most of the space under the skillions has been converted into bedrooms and
330-569: Is a traditional and distinctive style of corbelled bay window in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia (e.g., as on the frontage of Nasseef House ). Most medieval bay windows and up to the Baroque era are oriel windows. They frequently appear as a highly ornamented addition to the building rather than an organic part of it. Particularly during the Gothic period they often serve as small house chapels , with
363-627: Is an isolated dwelling , especially a farmhouse , and adjacent outbuildings, typically on a large agricultural holding such as a ranch or station . In North America the word "homestead" historically referred to land claimed by a settler or squatter under the Homestead Acts (United States) or the Dominion Lands Act (Canada). In Old English , the term was used to mean a human settlement , and in Southern Africa
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#1732798041139396-445: Is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places. The sheds, out buildings and other remains provide evidence of the continuing pastoral and agricultural activities of the property. The place is important because of its aesthetic significance. Nindooinbah House is significant for the superbly maintained gardens, which are an accomplished design, providing an appropriate setting for
429-470: Is probable that the L-shaped homestead and outbuildings were constructed about this period. Compigne was a member of the first legislative council and at the time of his death in 1909 was the last remaining original member of the council. In 1862 Robert Towns held the mortgage for Nindooinbah and in 1867 he foreclosed on Compigne and soon after sold Nindooinbah to William Duckett White whose son Ernest
462-615: The US, Canada, and Australia. Following the pioneering model of pre-modern commercial architecture at the Oriel Chambers in Liverpool , they feature on early Chicago School skyscrapers, where they often run the whole height of the building's upper storeys. They also feature in bay-and-gable houses commonly found in older portions of Toronto . Bay windows were identified as a defining characteristic of San Francisco architecture in
495-405: The eastern corner of the house and contains the main bedroom and attached bathroom, drawing room, smaller bedrooms and the "telephone" room, once the original dining room. The 1906 addition copies many of the details of the original house including balustrading and external wall cladding. The northeast wing contains bedrooms and bathrooms. The addition is clearly separated from the original house by
528-477: The following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. Nindooinbah House is an example of a homestead as country residence displaying the changing affluent lifestyle and tastes of the squattocracy. The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage. Nindooinbah House is an example of rare surviving fabric of an 1850s squatter dwelling and woolshed. The place
561-503: The gate house. Adjacent to the house are bush houses and fernery. A bamboo bush house was demolished in the 1950s though the irrigation system that feeds water from the laundry to it remains. A play house built in the 1950s has been adapted for use as a garage. About 1984 a Japanese tea house in a man-made lagoon was constructed, the house repainted externally and much of the Edwardian garden designed by Dods replanted. The gardens include
594-400: The house in the landscape. The place is important in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period. Adding to the significance of Nindooinbah House is the intactness of the interior, including furniture and fittings, and the high quality of the materials, craftsmanship and detailing of the house. The place has a strong or special association with
627-409: The house is clad in wide chamferboards and has painted corrugated iron roofs. It has an E-shaped plan consisting of three rectangular wings around a northwest courtyard and a central entry porch . A timber pergola leads to the semi-enclosed entry porch which adjoins the verandah. Most rooms are accessed from the continuous verandah through wide French doors. The original L-shaped building now forms
660-598: The house was E-shaped. The homestead included a woolshed, stables, quarters and other out buildings and yards. In 1842 Paul and Clement Lawless held the depasturing license for the Nindooinbah pastoral run. They sold it to Alfred William Compigne in 1847 when the run was about 16 square miles (41.44 square kilometres) and carried over 4,000 sheep. In 1858 Compigne purchased, by pre-emptive right, 640 acres (260 ha). He used his lease holdings and freehold land to raise large mortgages and with some security of tenure, it
693-464: The house was in a very dilapidated state. Collins purchased the property, in 1906, and employed the eminent Brisbane architect, Robin Dods, to extend the house. His alteration were sympathetic to the original house, he changed the French doors and added an en-suite to the master bedroom but altered little else. In 1918 the entrance porch was extended. The detached kitchen was moved about 1906 and became
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#1732798041139726-449: The managers house, a tea house built over a new pond to the south of the house and a new fernery replacing a demolished bush house near the pond. The kitchen gardens, greenhouse, laundry and water tanks are on the southwest side of the house adjacent to the service wing. The boundaries of the garden are marked by a timber fence and elaborate timber gateways that show the influence of the fashionable taste for chinoiserie. Buildings related to
759-428: The northern corner of the verandah. The roof of the house, hipped at the eastern and southern corners, is terminated by a double gable on the northern corner and a single gable on the western corner. The gables are decorated with oval shaped ventilation panels. Three brick chimney stacks protrude above the roof. The large gardens and sweeping lawns that surround the house, based on the original planting schemes, are
792-423: The oldest in Queensland and its quality and intactness make it very rare. Nindooinbah house, located in extensive gardens on a rural property, has distant views to the southeast across a lagoon and valley towards the surrounding hills. Buildings and structures related to the pastoral activities of the property are located to the northwest of the house. A single-storeyed timber construction set on low timber stumps,
825-544: The oriel window containing an altar and resembling an apse of a church. Especially in Nuremberg these are even called Chörlein ( lit. ' little apse/ choir ' ), with the most famous example being the one from the parsonage of St. Sebaldus Church . In Islamic architecture , oriel windows such as the Arabic mashrabiya are frequently made of wood and allow viewing out while restricting visibility from
858-451: The outside. Especially in warmer climates, a bay window may be identical to a balcony with a privacy shield or screen. Bay windows can make a room appear larger, and provide views of the outside which would be unavailable with an ordinary flat window. They are found in terraced houses , semis , and detached houses as well as in blocks of flats . Based on British models, their use spread to other English-speaking countries like Ireland,
891-448: The pastoral and agricultural activities of the property are located outside the formal gardens. These include a single-storeyed timber manager's house, storage sheds , an old timber wool shed, the remains of a stable and butchers shop and associated machinery and timber cattle and horse yards. A residence located beside the entry to the property is a single-storeyed weatherboard building with enclosed verandahs on three sides. The wool shed
924-420: The term is used for a cluster of several houses normally occupied by a single extended family. In Australia it refers to the owner's house and the associated outbuildings of a pastoral property, known as a station . Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room. It typically consists of a central windowpane, called
957-434: The verandah and other decorative details including an inscription over the fireplace. The guest room, next to the dining room, has original carpets, wallpapers, fabrics and furniture made from a bunya pine felled to make way for the extension. The south west wing, narrower than the other two wings with a verandah only on the courtyard side, contains the kitchen, ancillary rooms and servants quarters. A bedroom has been built into
990-434: The view. They are commonly found in residential buildings, particularly in living rooms, dining areas, or bedrooms, but can also be seen in commercial or public structures. Bay window is a generic term for all protruding window constructions, regardless of whether they are curved or angular, or run over one or multiple storeys . In plan, the most frequently used shapes are isosceles trapezoid (which may be referred to as
1023-402: The weather and other factors led most of the local squatters to utilise their runs for depasturing cattle rather than sheep, hence the woolshed has been used as men's quarters and storage for many years. Of the original local squatter homesteads only Nindooinbah and Mundoolun remain and both have been and remain the homes of the Collins family or their descendants. The woolshed is probably one of
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1056-647: Was living on the property. At this stage the house was valued at £ 2,000 and there was £ 1,000 of improvements. In 1877, 12,000 acres (4,900 ha) was resumed from the Nooininbah and Kerrylarabah pastoral runs and offered for selection on 17 April 1877. In 1901 William Collins, son of John Collins of the Mundoolun pastoral station , renewed his Nindooinbah lease. William and his bride honeymooned in Japan and on their return took up residence at Nindooinbah, though
1089-597: 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). [REDACTED] Media related to Nindooinbah Homestead at Wikimedia Commons Homestead (buildings) A homestead
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