end. The building's immediate surrounds include overgrown gardens to the northwest fronting Ruffles Road, with the remains of a rock garden to the north of the house. There are also a number of large trees to the north and south, and the remains of a partially demolished shed to the northeast. Heritage listing Laurel Hill Farmhouse was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 1 December 1997 having satisfied the following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. Laurel Hill Farmhouse survives as an important illustration of the pattern of Queensland's history, demonstrating the success of arrowroot growing and manufacturing in the Pimpama district in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when this Queensland region supplied almost the whole of the arrowroot used in Australia. As early as 1897, the house was considered illustrative of what the Queensland land selection system could achieve, and was promoted officially as the ideal type of settler's residence. The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage. It is rare to find an early 1880s farm house as intact as this on the Gold Coast hinterland, which has experienced enormous pressure for development in the last quarter of the 20th century. The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Queensland's history. The place has potential to provide important information about rural timber building techniques of the early 1880s, and about the types of materials used. The s kitchen wing appears to have been constructed to much the same footprint as the earlier building it replaced, survives very intact, and in materials and form complements the 1880s building. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places. Laurel Hill Farmhouse survives reasonably intact, and is important in illustrating the principal characteristics of an early 1880s settler's farm house with unpainted interior and original joinery. The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. The place is valued by the local community for its long association with the Doherty family and their work in the local community, and for its illustration of pioneering achievement. The Willowvale/Pimpama community has a number of families descended from the first European settlers in the area, who value Laurel Hill Farmhouse as an important link