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Superintendent of Convicts at Limestone and lived with his family in a cottage to the north west of where Claremont now stands. He stayed on after the penal colony was closed and became a wealthy merchant and pastoralist. Physical evidence for this first European use of the site may survive below ground. The
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Europeans in Ipswich. John Panton was a Member of both the New South Wales and Queensland Legislative Councils and a prominent Ipswich merchant. However financial difficulties forced the sale of the house in 1862. (In 1865 the Pantons built another
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Penal colony sent a group of convicts up the Bremer River to quarry and process limestone for building purposes. Huts and a lime kiln were set up, followed by enclosures for animals. The site covered what are now the grounds of
Claremont and their immediate vicinity and was named Limestone Station.
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In 1964 the property was purchased by the
Queensland Sub-Normal Children's Welfare Association and at this time some alterations were made to allow the house to be used as a hostel. These probably included converting the original double hipped slate roof into a single hip roof over the main rooms,
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Alterations occurred to the house in the 1920s with the rebuilding of the verandahs to a bungalow style. It was used as a boarding house between 1924 and 1939, when it was sold to Jessie Violet Preddy. The
Preddys lived in the house only briefly before it was divided into three flats and the land
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In 1857 Panton added a villa designed by
William Claydon Wakeling to the site and named it Claremont. Only a few years after this, in the early 1860s, Panton experienced financial difficulties and sold Claremont to George Thorn, who was by then a leading figure in Ipswich. The Thorns were closely
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The house is symmetrically arranged with French doors opening onto the verandah, which extends around the sides of the house. There is a stone paved verandah at the rear. The verandah roof has been reconstructed to its original form of a concave profile roof supported by simple posts on plain
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In 1842, when
Moreton Bay was opened for free settlement, the first survey of Limestone was made and this land was divided into blocks and sold. By 1852 it was held by several owners, but all the northern parts of section XXXVI were later acquired by John Panton, the son of the
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There is a brick lined, stone flagged storage cellar beneath the former bathroom on the western side of the house. The original half spiral access stair survives, but much of the floor framing in this room is reconstructed. The kitchen also retains a stone flagged floor.
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installing bathrooms over the cellar and bricking in fireplaces. Landscaping was also done at this time, including the re-use of stone blocks from either the kiln or demolished sections, in order to form garden terraces.
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Claremont has a strong association with John Panton and with the Thorn family, who were connected with the site from the earliest
European occupation and who contributed to the development of Ipswich and of Queensland.
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and restoration work began. In the following year the first open day for the general public was held. The
Buchanan's moved out of the house in the mid eighties and the house has not been used since as a residence.
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National Estate Grant to purchase Claremont, which was then sub-leased back to the Q.S-N.C.W.A. for three years. After remaining vacant for two years, the house was leased in 1980 to Architect
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The house and its grounds have the potential to yield, through the existing buildings and from archaeological evidence, information on the early use of the site and on the lifestyle of early owners.
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Claremont and its grounds demonstrate the evolution of Ipswich from a convict outpost for burning limestone, to an important early mercantile centre and a major city of Queensland.
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house with verandahs which addresses the Bremer River on the north. It is built to a U-shaped plan with wings of differing lengths. The style is reminiscent of earlier houses in
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Considerable work has been done to Claremont since it was purchased by the Trust including the reconstruction of the verandah to its original form.
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The house is a rare example of an early Georgian villa in Queensland and incorporates early and unusual building techniques.
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of the drawing and dining rooms, is simple and classically inspired in accordance with the Georgian style. There are nine
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and some battening for slates, remains under the current roof which is single hipped and is clad with corrugated iron.
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at various times. The eldest son, George Thorn, junior, was Premier between 1876-77 while he was living at Claremont.
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were visible until the 1960s and their location, close to the current house, is marked; the remains are listed on the
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while living at Claremont and the house was for many years an important social and political centre in Ipswich.
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The gardens retain some elements of the original planting and a number of fine or unusual specimens including
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with brick walls internally. The form of construction is rare, incorporating timber tie beams at
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which they also called Claremont, but that second Claremont is not the subject of this article).
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Archaeological work at Claremont, Ipswich : the cellar
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Claremont is a Georgian style stone villa overlooking the
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Wilson family members on the lawn at Claremont, 1912
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