Barambah Homestead

This private home was built in 1906, reputedly for Isaac John Moore and his new bride Mary Stuart Hall. The building was designed by Frederick Herbert Faircloth of Maryborough. Barambah, comprising 164,000 acres, was taken up as a grazing run in 1843 by Ferriter and Uhr, who ran sheep. Cattle grazing predominated from the 1870s. When it was taken up by Hugh and Isaac Moore in 1876, it carried over 7000 head of cattle. Isaac Moore was the founding member of the Australian Hereford Society. By 1879, the Moores were in partnership with grazier William Baynes. In 1904, the Queensland Government reserved 7000 acres from the property to create the Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement. Baynes died in 1901 and Isaac and his brother Hugh Moore died in 1903. The property remained in the Moore family until 1967, when it was transferred to the Barambah Pastoral Company. The property won four architecture awards in 2009 for excellence in heritage restoration of the house and the selective retention and reorganisation of existing buildings to re-establish it as a working cattle property. It includes the homestead, coach house, store/stable, hay shed and a private graveyard. This is a private home and not publically accessible.