 It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.James Young, a bricklayer by trade who reputedly worked as a foreman for John Petrie, acquired of land at Milton, adjoining what later became Bishopsbourne, by deed of grant dated 22 August 1859.The house is believed to have been built by 1862, the first of three homes which Young constructed on the property, to accommodate a family of sixteen children.