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This Restored 120-Year-Old Queenslander Is a Proper Country Escape, Just Two Hours From Brisbane
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This Restored 120-Year-Old Queenslander Is a Proper Country Escape, Just Two Hours From Brisbane

By Phillipe Blake·4 September 2026·1 min read

Queen's Quarter, a newly opened Darling Downs homestead near Toowoomba, is proof a real country escape doesn't have to eat your whole weekend.

Two hours from Brisbane, on a quiet stretch of the Darling Downs near Toowoomba, sits a 120-year-old Queenslander that's been given a proper second life. Queen's Quarter has been relocated and painstakingly restored — antiques, curated artwork, an all-black kitchen and a chandelier-lit bathroom among the details — and now takes bookings for anywhere from one bedroom to the whole three-bedroom house.

We went deep on the restoration, the design choices and what a stay actually looks like over on our sister site, The Big Curious. Read the full feature →

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