Mayes Cottage is a nineteenth century, heritage-listed house museum located at 20 Mawarra Street, Kingston, City of Logan, Queensland, Australia.

It was constructed as the family home of local pioneer, John Mayes in 1887, replacing an earlier house, reused as a store.

[3] John and Emily Mayes and their two small children, Joshua and Ruth, arrived in Brisbane from England aboard the SS Indus in 1871.

When they arrived at what was to become Kingston, the Mayes family lived in a tent on the property, but in 1872 a small timber slab hut was constructed.

In 1886-1887 the Mayes constructed a new timber house "Pleasant Place" adjacent to the earlier hut, which they also retained for storage (later it became the garage for the family car).

Early photographs of Pleasant Place show a single storeyed timber building with exposed external framing, a pyramidal roof and extensive verandahs.

[3] John Mayes applied to purchase the property on 30 January 1883, and a Deed of Grant was issued on 7 July that year.

The following year an application was made by Mayes for a refund for land that had been resumed by the railway, which was due to open in 1885, reducing his property to 313 acres (127 ha) and 38 perches (960 m2).

By about 1906 a milking yard was installed when J. Mayes, either the elderly John or his son Josiah, bought shares in the newly formed Kingston Cooperative Dairy Company.

By the mid-1950s, when Josiah was not able to maintain or work the farm, the family sold off the land for suburban development, leaving only ten acres around the house.

A local action group lobbied to save the historic property, which was listed by the National Trust of Australia and gazetted as a reserve for Park and Recreation in June 1979.

Mayes Cottage is a small one-storeyed timber building on a large block on Mawarra St, Kingston, which features a variety of outbuildings and established vegetation.

The cottage is situated on the highest point of the block, with land gently sloping away to the north and east, providing the house with panoramic views of the surrounding area.

The single skinned external walls of the main house have exposed diagonally braced timber framing, and are lined with horizontal boards.

[3] A centrally located entrance door on the eastern facade, is accessed via a small open tread timber stair onto the verandah.

The walkway joining the main house to the kitchen wing is enclosed with casement windows, glazed with coloured and clear arctic glass.

The shed has an L-shaped plan, enclosed on the western end with the extending wing open to the north and framed with wide timber rough cut sections.