These were the Hodgsons who had a property in the Hunter Valley and subsequently established Eton Vale station on the Darling Downs.

[1] Searches for pastoral land extended north in the early 1840s after the Moreton Bay region was opened for selection following the closure of the penal colony.

Initial leases were taken up in the Moreton Bay, Darling Downs and Brisbane Valley regions, but by 1842 squatters were looking further north for suitable land.

[1] Friell died in 1854 and the property appears to have been managed by Gordon Sandeman, possibly until it was sold to Robert Campbell in May 1860.

[1] During the 1890s a series of resumptions for grazing leases began on properties in the area to encourage closer settlement following the 1884 land Act.

The core section of the run was leased to the Commercial Bank of Australia in 1900 and sold by them in 1901 to Frederick Borton, who was placed at Burrandowan by the 1874 Queensland Post Office Directory and may have been a manager.

The current homestead is assembled from three early buildings and is slightly higher and further away from Garden Creek than the previous main house.

They comprise a dwelling in three sections, sheds, a guest cottage, an ant bed tennis court and traces of various other outbuildings just visible above ground.

[1] The main residence consists of three buildings; a kitchen and office, a dining room connected to it by a covered way and a bedroom wing.

It has a hipped roof clad in corrugated iron sheeting and the walls are constructed of split and trimmed horizontal slabs dropped between uprights.

Windows with multiple panes overlook an area paved with dressed stone blocks, some of which are pecked and have tooled margins.

[1] Some distance to the west of the main house is a drop log cottage with a new corrugated iron hipped roof and a bullnosed awning supported by timber posts along the front.

It has a steep hipped roof clad in corrugated iron and is also constructed of drop log slabs, is unlined and has a pole frame.

A pole storage rack has been built against one wall and most of the floor in this area is paved with small blocks of timber placed in irregular rows.

[1] The homestead grounds contain visible traces of outbuildings, and quantities of the dressed stone blocks of unknown provenance that have been used for paving and low seats around the house and garden.

Burrandowan homestead illustrates the pattern of early European exploration and settlement of Queensland where the development of pastoral properties preceded agriculture and the establishment of towns.

These include residential and working buildings that are good examples their types and demonstrate the recycling of useful structures commonly made on pastoral properties.

Burrandowan homestead complex has aesthetic significance, comprising structures that are well made examples of traditional buildings that are pleasing in form, materials and detail.

[1] The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.