[1] The block on which Braeside Homestead is situated was taken up in 1869, during the opening of large tracts of Rosenthal run to selection in the late 1860s and early 1870s.

[1] Under the provisions of the Alienation of Crown Lands Act of 1868, James Adam Veitch of Warwick selected two blocks along Turner Creek from Rosenthal Run in 1869.

At this time boundary rider Henry Steel had been in residence on the block from 1 January 1870, acting as bailiff for JA Veitch, "sheep overseer" of Glengallan.

Improvements consisted mainly of fencing and sheep yards, and there was a two-roomed slab hut with a bark roof, chimney, verandah, and "bush furniture", which was the residence of Steel and his wife.

The inspector's report and neighbours' declarations satisfied WC Hume, the Darling Downs Commissioner of Crown Lands, who in February 1876 issued Veitch with a certificate of fulfilment of the conditions of selection.

The next month Veitch signed over his interest in the leases of selections 286 and 295 to South Toolburra grazier Bertie Chiverton Parr, who immediately paid off the outstanding debt and gained freehold title in July 1876.

[1] A little over a year later, in September 1877, Parr conveyed selections 286 and 285 [totalling now 3,188 acres (1,290 ha) 3 roods (33,000 sq ft; 3,000 m2), some land having been excised for roads] to Francis Henry Needham of Warwick, for the sum of £1200.

[1] Allan, the well-educated son of an Edinburgh lawyer, arrived in Australia c. 1857 aged about 17, to work for his uncle Alexander Campbell in Victoria.

[1] In 1874 Allan joined the second wave of southern pastoralists to move into Queensland, with the purchase of Whyenbah and Woolerina Stations on the Balonne and Maranoa rivers.

At Braeside Allan established a purebred Hereford Cattle Stud and bred black Merino and Lincoln sheep, the wool selling well on the London market.

He served as Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for the Darling Downs from November 1881 to October 1883 and from September 1887 to May 1888, prior to his election as MLA for Cunningham in May 1888.

As may be expected from his pastoralist and mercantile activities, he was a McIlwraith Nationalist and a Coalition Conservative, and while never holding a portfolio, his social, pastoral and business connections enabled him to wield considerable personal influence.

In September 1906 the property was transferred to George Edward Bunning, manager of Darr River Downs Station in Western Queensland.

The bulk of the property, including the block containing Braeside Homestead (subdivision 1, portion 192, par Rosenthal, co Merivale, comprising 1,226 acres (496 ha) 3 roods (33,000 sq ft; 3,000 m2) 19 perches (480 m2)), was transferred in February 1925 to Englishman Harold Priest, who retained it for only a few years.

In 1951 the western end of the northern bedroom wing of the main house was relocated about 100 metres (330 ft) to the west, to form a separate residence [now called Rose Cottage] for Mr and Mrs Leighton, who managed Braeside for the Lloyds.

[1] In 1954 the property, then reputedly comprising about 7,000 acres (2,800 ha), was transferred to Cecil Raymond Hardman Lockwood, who ran it with a staff of 6 or 7.

The Lindsay family sold the property in 2006 to Queensland internet pioneer, Lloyd Ernst [1] Braeside Homestead is located about 28 kilometres (17 mi) south of Warwick just west of the New England Highway, along Crystal Mount Road, overlooking Turner's Creek to the east.

It comprises a complex grouping of timber structures, including the main residence with multifarious additions and extensions, outbuildings, yards, fencing and gardens.

In the eastern wall is a bay window overlooking the garden, and glass doors opening onto the southern verandah of the house core.

[1] Opening off the southern end of this extension is an idiosyncratic timber "tower", about one and a half storeys in height, with a steeply pitched pyramid roof of galvanized iron with a top finial and acroteria to the corners of the guttering.

There are verandahs with timber posts and capitals and corrugated iron roofs to the front [east] and side [south] of the tower.

[1] Attached or semi-attached to the rear [west] of the core are a number of weatherboard-clad structures, including kitchen, study, meat house and garage.

[1] The main house is set within gardens which include an early carriage path from the south with remnant early hedging; a number of mature trees likely to date to the 19th century; a tennis court in the southwest corner of the garden; and terraces with stone retaining walls along the bank to the creek.

Braeside Homestead comprises a substantial complex of timber structures set within gardens and yards, which has evolved over time.

The placed has strong aesthetic value, engendered by the materials, complex form, garden and creek-side settings, and surrounding rural environment.