The homestead was restored by the National Trust of Queensland between 1975 and 1980 after moving the buildings from the banks of the Brisbane River to the nearby town of Coominya to avoid being flooded.

In 1848, John Stephen Ferriter and Edmund Blucher Uhr squatted on 38,000 acres (150 km2) close to limits of convict colony of Moreton Bay[2] and called it Wivenhoe Run after the town in England.

Soon after acquiring Wivenhoe, William North Snr established a 2,000 hectares (4,900 acres) section as Bellevue Station, on which he ran sheep.

None of the 1860s buildings have survived, with the older parts of the present homestead most likely constructed after the North family transferred the Bellevue leasehold to Campbell and Hay in 1872.

In 1884, James Taylor MLA,[7] who lived in Clifford House, Toowoomba, and owned Cecil Plains[8] and several other cattle properties, purchased Bellevue for his son, George Condamine (Con) Taylor and his wife Edith Maud (née Harris, born at Newstead House in Brisbane in 1865, daughter of George Harris MLC).

In the same year the homestead and associated buildings were acquired by the National Trust of Queensland, and between 1975 and 1980 were removed to nearby Coominya township, established in 1905 on part of the Bellevue selection.

In 2007, Bellevue Homestead was purchased by John and Laurel Dingle from Coominya and was operated by them until the sale of the property to the current owner (Christina James) in 2019.

The main farmhouse and guest house face northeast and are encircled by verandas, with a spine of kitchen, stores, servants' hall and laundry attached at right angles, forming a T-shaped plan.

A cottage, previously a school house and governess' residence, is attached on the south-east forming a southern courtyard, and a row of barns and stables is located on the southwest.

[1] The main house comprises two chamferboard buildings which have corrugated iron hipped roofs and are joined by an enclosed verandah breezeway.

Some rooms are in the process of restoration and show different layers of the building's fabric, including pit sawn framing with mortice and tenon joints and hand-finished lining boards.

The dining room has a metal-lined wine store cupboard and its walls are panelled in cedar with silky oak inserts to a dado with full length vertical tongue-and-groove hoop pine boards above and along the 30-foot (9.1 m) ceiling.

The kitchen has a corrugated iron gable roof with a verandah to the courtyard, and a scullery attached to the back and three pressed metal ridge ventilators.

Timber shingles are visible under the corrugated iron sheeting and the interior has single-skin cedar board walls and a large brick fireplace with wood-burning stove, hot water donkey and a charcoal grill with dripping collection tray.

[1] On the other side of the courtyard facing the service wing, the cottage has an L-shaped plan and consists of a series of rooms added at different times.

The grounds include a circular drive with gardens to the north, overlooking a private dam[1] positioned the same distance that the Brisbane River was from the house at its original location.

An example of a large, evolving timber homestead complex, illustrating in form, fabric and decoration the lifestyle of the turn-of-the-century Queensland squattocracy.

An example of a large, evolving timber homestead complex, illustrating in form, fabric and decoration the lifestyle of the turn-of-the-century Queensland squattocracy.

[1] The Somerset Region contains a significant number of large residences in the Brisbane Valley that have been restored to their original state when built in the 19th century.

[23] In addition to the Bellevue Homestead at Coominya, other restored dwellings in the Somerset region are the Esk Heritage (Lars Anderson) House in Esk, Caboonbah Homestead,[24] the home of Henry Plantagenet Somerset, Cressbrook Station at Toogoolawah, continuously owned by the McConnell family[25] from the early 1840s to the present (not open to the public), Ringsfield House in Nanango,[26] Stonehouse in Moore and the Convent, now the Heritage Centre, at Yarraman.