DescriptionGeorge Faircloth contracted William Hancock to build the house in the late 1850s. During the 1860s it was surrounded by cotton, when the Ipswich Cotton Company started a 20ha plantation. (Information from Ipswich City Council, retrieved 11 October 2010, from http://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/documents/heritage/booval_house.pdf)
