Craigellachie, Windsor

Craigellachie
Craigellachie
	Street front, 2015
Location	10 Fosbery Street, Windsor, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates	27°25′40″S153°02′01″E / 27.4277°S 153.0336°E Coordinates: 27°25′40″S153°02′01″E / 27.4277°S 153.0336°E
Design period	1870s - 1890s (late 19th century)
Built	c. 1889
Built for	John Grant
Queensland Heritage Register
	Official name: Craigellachie
Type	state heritage (built)
Designated	21 October 1992
Reference no.	600348
Significant period	1880s-1890s (fabric); 1880s (historical)
Significant components	residential accommodation - main house, service wing, cellar
Builders	John Grant
	Location of Craigellachie in Queensland Craigellachie, Windsor (Australia)

Last updated March 21, 2019

Craigellachie is a heritage-listed detached house at 10 Fosbery Street, Windsor, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built c. 1889 by its owner John Grant, a stonemason. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.^[1]

Windsor is an inner northern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, located about 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) from the Brisbane central business district. It is largely residential, featuring many old Queenslanders, although there is also considerable retail commercial activity, primarily concentrated along Lutwyche and Newmarket Roads.

City of Brisbane Local government area in Queensland, Australia

The City of Brisbane is a local government area that has jurisdiction over the inner portion of the metropolitan area of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. Brisbane is located in the county of Stanley and is the largest city followed by Ipswich with bounds in part of the county. Unlike LGAs in the other mainland state capitals, which are generally responsible only for the central business districts and inner neighbourhoods of those cities, the City of Brisbane administers a significant portion of the Brisbane metropolitan area, serving almost half of the population of the Brisbane Greater Capital City Statistical Area. As such, it has a larger population than any other local government area in Australia. The City of Brisbane was the first Australian LGA to reach a population of more than one million. Its population is roughly equivalent to the populations of Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory combined. In 2016–2017, the council administers a budget of over $3 billion, by far the largest budget of any LGA in Australia.

Queensland is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Situated in the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. To its north is the Torres Strait, with Papua New Guinea located less than 200 km across it from the mainland. The state is the world's sixth-largest sub-national entity, with an area of 1,852,642 square kilometres (715,309 sq mi).

History

Craigellachie, a single-storeyed masonry residence, was constructed during the late 1880s boom. It was a resubdivision of Windsor-Lutwyche for closer settlement. It was erected by master stonemason John Grant as his family home.^[1]

Lutwyche is an inner-city residential suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of the city's central business district. At the 2016 Australian Census the suburb recorded a population of 3,454.

In 1887 Grant purchased just over an acre of land in what was then known as Alice Street. Two years later he raised a mortgage of £ 450 on the property, which most likely financed the construction of the house in late 1889 or early 1890.^[1]

The Australian pound was the currency of Australia from 1910 until 14 February 1966, when it was replaced by the Australian dollar. As with other £sd currencies, it was subdivided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence.

Whether the house was always known as Craigellachie is unclear, as the name does not appear in post office directories until 1904.^[1]

Grant and his wife Jane raised eight children at Craigellachie. He died aged forty-five in December 1899, but the house remained the property of the Grant family until 1974.^[1]

The residence was converted into three flats probably in the late 1940s or 1950s, but was refurbished in the mid-1970s. The interior was returned to its original layout, paint to joinery and doors was removed, and the exterior was renovated.^[1]

Craigellachie remains a family home.^[1]

Description

Craigellachie is a modestly proportioned, single-storeyed house with fine stone detailing and Georgian features unusual in a house of this size. It retains its original attached brick service wing and two cellars beneath the core.^[1]

The main building is constructed of Brisbane tuff, sandstone and brick, with timber floors and an iron roof. Most likely the adjacent Windsor quarry across Lutwyche Road supplied the stone for the foundations and walls, and it is believed the dressed sandstone employed on quoining and facings originated from the Albion Quarry behind Bartley's Hill. Bricks used in the kitchen house and internal walls were probably manufactured locally, Lutwyche-Windsor being an early brickmaking centre.^[1]

The front features twin projecting gables, each with a circular louvred vent in the gable end, plain bargeboards, timber console brackets, fretwork infill, finial and pendant.^[1]

It is unified by a full-length verandah resting on brick piers. This is shaded by a convex corrugated iron roof supported by timber posts with capitals and fretwork brackets. The balustrade is of cast aluminium.^[1]

Internally the house consists of a wide, central arched hallway with to the right a living and dining room, each with a cedar fireplace, and to the left three bedrooms.^[1]

All the windows are sashed, and joinery and doors (with fanlights) throughout are of cedar. A doorway into the front living room has been widened at some stage.^[1]

There is an attached brick kitchen wing at the western rear of the building and an L-shaped back verandah. This is unadorned. Recent owners have installed new bathrooms in the core and have renovated the kitchen wing to include a modern kitchen, breakfast room, laundry and shower room.^[1]

Externally the house remains substantially intact.^[1]

Heritage listing

Craigellachie was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.^[1]

The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage.

Craigellachie is significant as a rare Brisbane example of stone and brick employed in a non-elite home of the 1880s.^[1]

The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.

Craigellachie is significant as a surviving Brisbane example of a late nineteenth century artisan's home and for its contribution to the Lutwyche-Windsor townscape, which retains a number of nineteenth century masonry buildings.^[1]

The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.

Craigellachie is an accomplished building in design, detail and material, which contributes aesthetically to the streetscape.^[1]

Craigellachie is significant as a surviving Brisbane example of a late nineteenth century artisan's home and for its contribution to the Lutwyche-Windsor townscape, which retains a number of nineteenth century masonry buildings.^[1]

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 "Craigellachie (entry 600348)". Queensland Heritage Register . Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

Attribution

This Wikipedia article was originally based on "The Queensland heritage register" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014). The geo-coordinates were originally computed from the "Queensland heritage register boundaries" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 5 September 2014, archived on 15 October 2014).

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