The Eton Vale Homestead Ruins are a heritage-listed site on the New England Highway, Cambooya, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.
The slab house, erected soon after 1840 formed the core of a larger brick residence which continued to be added to up to as late as 1880.
[4] At its peak the station complex was a village complete with workers' cottages and a school in addition to a number of outbuildings.
Hodgson modelled Eton Vale on the English village style, taking a paternalistic interest in the affairs of the estate workers.
[1] Sited on a slope that falls gently towards Hodgson Creek, the Eton Vale homestead would have once overlooked the fields to its west, assuming prominence when viewed from this aspect.
A single brick chimney now dominates the ruins, which also include two sets of stairs made of cement-rendered brick on stone and mortar foundations, several hearth beds consisting of stone and mortar foundations, timber stump remains, and scattered fragments of building materials.
[1] Eton Vale Homestead Ruins was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.
Eton Vale Homestead Ruins on the eastern Darling Downs is important in demonstrating the evolution of Queensland's history, being the surviving remnants of a number of station buildings which were once located on the second oldest and leading property in the area.
[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.