Fernleigh is a heritage-listed cottage at 73 Shore Street East, Cleveland, City of Redland, Queensland, Australia.

[1] The allotments on which Fernleigh stands, lots 14-16 of section 11, were acquired in the 1851 land sale by Jeremiah Scanlan, Robert Cribb and William Augustine Duncan respectively.

The three men were actively involved in the development of the Moreton Bay settlement: Scanlan as a Brisbane hotel proprietor; Cribb as a baker and politician who acquired extensive land interests; and Duncan, a former Sydney journalist who took up a position as Sub-Collector of Customs in Brisbane from 1846.

[1] Locally, it is held that Fernleigh was built during the 1860s as a holiday house for William Taylor, who had arrived in Brisbane in 1849 on Chaseley, one of emigrant ships organised by the Rev Dr John Dunmore Lang.

Prior to being used as a schoolhouse, the building was a cottage/shop in Cleveland, on land owned by the Hon Arthur Macalister (three times Queensland Premier).

[1] The residence has a corrugated iron gable roof, in which an attic space has been enclosed in recent years, with a large dormer window to both the northwest and southeast.

The attic has been lined with hardboard sheeting, it has a pine floor and casement windows are located in the gable ends.

It has a corrugated iron gable roof with verandahs to three sides, the southeast wall being of weatherboard and containing a stove recess.

The ceiling is boarded, walls are lined with hardboard sheeting with timber cover strips and it has mainly sash windows.

[1] A recently constructed weatherboard garage with a corrugated iron gable roof is located at the southwest boundary.

Originally a cottage, the kitchen house was used as the first Cleveland State School prior to its removal and re-erection at Fernleigh.

The timber buildings and established garden have aesthetic quality, and form an integral part of the mature townscape of Cleveland Point.