Fairview is a heritage-listed house at 15 Porter's Lane, Maleny, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

[1] Fairview is a lowset, four-roomed timber dwelling under the core with four rooms under the stepped-down surrounding verandahs.

[1] Aboriginals had long known the Maleny district, on the Blackall Range behind Nambour, as an area where the important Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwilli) grew.

The first Europeans to live in the district were transient timber getters who heard from local Aborigines of the huge red cedar (Toona australis) trees on the Blackall Range.

The first non-indigenous person to settle in the area was Isaac Burgess, who took up residence on his selection on 1 January 1872; others followed in the late 1870s.

Pits were dug near where the trees stood and there they were sawn down to scantlings and boardings, and afterwards planed, tongued and grooved by hand as required.

As the red cedar was cut out attention turned to the beech trees and Maleny pioneers of the timber industry include Isaac Burgess, Francis and William Dunlop, Joseph McCarthy, and JD Campbell.

In the late 1890s farmers in the Maleny area turned to dairying and by 1900 were sending cream by pack horse to Landsborough for railing to the Queensland Meat Export Company's Brisbane butter factory.

Maleny was listed as a township in Pugh's Almanac of 1912 for the first time: the district had a population of about 510 with town businesses including auctioneer, baker, butcher, blacksmith, 2 contractors, dairy factory, hotel, plumber, saddler, sawmiller and 2 store keepers.

Sons William John (Bill) and Herbert Stanley (Stan) heard of the lush Blackall Range in Queensland, then being promoted for its dairying opportunities, and by 1906 were cutting timber there.

Title to portion 1257, the site on which Fariview was soon constructed, was registered in the name of John Robert Pattemore in September 1907.

The brothers pit-sawed the timber on the property, hand planed it, and made 6-inch (150 mm) tongue-and-groove boards with a single beading.

Either side of the front gate was a Bunya Pine, not a favourite of the children as underneath was too spiky and hurt their bare feet when playing.

To the left of the back door was the laundry under a skillion roof; it was paved with slats and cobble stones and had tubs, bench and copper.

[1] Following Mrs Emily Pattemore's death at nearly 87 years in 1937, her husband remained on his farm, and in August 1941 celebrated his 91st birthday as Maleny's oldest resident.

Included amongst these was Fairview, listed as Armstrong's House [MY 56], identified for its historic, aesthetic, representative value and integrity.

The only building constructed of local pit-sawn timber included in the listing was the first stage of the Maleny Hotel [MY 26], erected in 1907.

[1] Fairview is situated halfway down the steep slope which forms the backdrop to the township of Maleny, on the Blackall Range west of Nambour.

[1] External walls are single-skin, vertically-jointed timber boards, diamond braced with belt rail, protected from the elements by skillion roofed verandahs.

Square posts with simple stop chamfers support the roof and are enhanced with later decorative brackets.

The kitchen has a double row of three hopper windows facing south while the stove recess has louvers.

The southern facing external wall is protected by a [Skillion roof|skillion roof] over the paving and raised path to the back garden.

The materials, timber detailing and workmanship, and simple plan and form, demonstrate a strong aesthetic quality.

Plantings around the house are remnants from when the property was an established dairy farm and add to the aesthetic appeal of the place.