Homestead (buildings)
Single or small group of buildings belonging to a homesteader / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about a dwelling and outbuildings. For other uses, see Homestead (disambiguation).
A homestead is an isolated dwelling, especially a farmhouse, and adjacent outbuildings,[1] typically on a large agricultural holding such as a ranch or station.[2]
In North America the word "homestead" historically referred to land claimed by a settler or squatter under the Homestead Acts (United States) or the Dominion Lands Act (Canada). In Old English, the term was used to mean a human settlement, and in Southern Africa the term is used for a cluster of several houses normally occupied by a single extended family.
In Australia it refers to the owner's house and the associated outbuildings of a pastoral property, known as a station.[3][4]