Inchcolm, Spring Hill

Inchcolm
Inchcolm
	Inchcolm, 2015
Location	73 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates	27°27′51″S153°01′37″E / 27.4643°S 153.0269°E Coordinates: 27°27′51″S153°01′37″E / 27.4643°S 153.0269°E
Design period	1919–1930s (interwar period)
Built	1930
Architect	Eric P Trewern
Architectural style(s)	Georgian
Queensland Heritage Register
	Official name: Inchcolm
Type	state heritage (built)
Designated	23 March 1998
Reference no.	600170
Significant period	1930 (fabric); 1920s-1930s (historical)
Builders	J I Green & Son
	Location of Inchcolm in Queensland Inchcolm, Spring Hill (Australia)

Last updated April 09, 2019

Ovolo Inchcolm is a heritage-listed former office building at 73 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Eric P Trewern and built in 1930 by J I Green & Son. It was converted into a hotel in 1998, and renovated in 2014. It now trades as Ovolo Inchcolm under the Ovolo Hotels Group. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 23 March 1998.^[1]^[2]

Wickham Terrace is one of the historic streets of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is known as the street of private medical specialists.

Spring Hill, Queensland Suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Spring Hill is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the central business district. Parts of Spring Hill can be considered to be extensions of the Brisbane CBD.

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.

History

This five-storeyed masonry office building was constructed in 1930, on a site which has been associated with the medical profession since the 1880s, when the first Inchcolm was established by Dr John Thomson. This building contained both his private residence and consulting rooms, and during the 1910s and 1920s it operated as a private hospital.^[1]

The first Inchcolm was bought by the Wharf Street Congregational Church in 1925 with the intention of constructing a new church on that site.^[3]^[4] However, it was subsequently decided that the church needed a more centrally located site in the city,^[5] and so sold Inchcolm in 1929. Part of the site was purchased by Inchcolm Ltd, a group of medical practitioners initiated by George Douglas. The company commissioned Brisbane architect Eric Percival Trewern, who was influential in popularising Georgian revival style in Brisbane domestic building during the interwar years, to design a new medical office building for the site, the present Inchcolm. The other part of the site was sold to a consortium who erected the neighbouring Lister House.^[1]^[6]

Wharf Street Congregational Church, Brisbane Church in Queensland, Australia

The Wharf Street Congregational Church was a Congregational church built in 1860 on the corner of Wharf Street and Adelaide Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The church was demolished in 1928. It was the first Congregational church in Brisbane.

Brisbane is the capital of and the most populated city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of 2.5 million, and the South East Queensland region, centred on Brisbane, encompasses a population of more than 3.5 million. The Brisbane central business district stands on the historic European settlement and is situated inside a peninsula of the Brisbane River, about 15 kilometres from its mouth at Moreton Bay. The metropolitan area extends in all directions along the floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range, sprawling across several of Australia's most populous local government areas (LGAs)—most centrally the City of Brisbane, which is by far the most populous LGA in the nation. The demonym of Brisbane is "Brisbanite".

Lister House is a heritage-listed office building at 79 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is also known as the Brisbane Clinic. It was designed by Raymond C Nowland and built from 1930 to 1948 by J I Green & Son. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.

Constructed by builders J I Green & Son in 1930, Inchcolm was part of the interwar redevelopment of the medical precinct along Wickham Terrace, which included Brisbane Clinic (Lister House), Ballow Chambers, Wickham House, and Craigston. Their construction constituted the second phase (the first being in the 1880s) of Wickham Terrace's growth as a medical precinct, and was indicative of new directions toward specialist medicine in Queensland in the interwar years.^[1]

Ballow Chambers is a heritage-listed office building at 121 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Lange Leopold Powell and built from 1924 to 1926 by John Hutchinson. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.

Craigston is a heritage-listed apartment block at 217 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Atkinson & Conrad and built in 1927. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.

Inchcolm was converted into a hotel in 1998, and was renovated in 2014. It now trades as Ovolo Inchcolm.^[2]

Description

Inchcolm is located at the eastern end of Wickham Terrace, overlooking the city centre, within an area dominated by buildings accommodating the medical and allied professions.^[1]

The building comprises four storeys to parapet level, with a basement and another floor above and behind the parapet.^[1]

The Georgian-style facade is of English bond face red brickwork, contrasted with rendered detailing. The ground floor level is rendered and scored to resemble ashlar, and the small projecting arched entrance is crowned by a cornice and parapet.^[1]

Internally the building is divided into suites of medical offices, accessed via a narrow central corridor on each level.^[1]

The ground floor lobby features entrance doors with cut bevelled glazing, dark-stained silky oak panelling to picture-rail height, plaster ceiling panels with moulded cornices, and terrazzo borders in the passageway in front of the lift, which is located in the middle of the eastern side of the building. This panelled and metal-meshed lift installation, which was designed to accommodate stretcher patients, is circled by a staircase which services all levels. The stairwell walls are rendered and pointed to resemble stone work.^[1]

Although some remodelling of individual offices has occurred, the interior public spaces remain substantially intact and sustain the ambience of a 1930s building.^[1]

Heritage listing

Inchcolm was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 23 March 1998 having satisfied the following criteria.^[1]

The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.

Inchcolm is important in demonstrating the interwar evolution of Wickham Terrace as an important medical specialist precinct in Brisbane, and is associated with the development of specialist medicine in Queensland^[1]

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

Inchcolm is an accomplished and intact building which is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a purpose-built interwar medical office building, including in the restrained design the assertion of medical specialist prestige^[1]

The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.

As one of a related group of classical facades, and in particular in association with adjacent Lister House, Inchcolm with its neo-Georgian facade exhibits a strong contribution to the Wickham Terrace streetscape, which is valued by the community^[1]

The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.

The building has a special association with Brisbane architect EP Trewern, as an example of his work^[1]

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Inchcolm (entry 600170)". Queensland Heritage Register . Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
1 2 "Discover". The New Inchcolm Hotel and Suites. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
↑ "NEW CHURCH". The Brisbane Courier . National Library of Australia. 30 January 1925. p. 7. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
↑ "THE SITE OF BRISBANE'S NEW CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH". The Brisbane Courier . National Library of Australia. 30 January 1925. p. 8. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
↑ "FINE BUILDING". The Brisbane Courier . National Library of Australia. 16 January 1928. p. 20. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
↑ "Our History". Brisbane Clinic . Retrieved 22 January 2015.

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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[qhr-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Inchcolm (entry 600170)". Queensland Heritage Register . Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

[Discover-2] 1 2 "Discover". The New Inchcolm Hotel and Suites. Retrieved 22 January 2015.

[3] "NEW CHURCH". The Brisbane Courier . National Library of Australia. 30 January 1925. p. 7. Retrieved 22 January 2015.

[4] "THE SITE OF BRISBANE'S NEW CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH". The Brisbane Courier . National Library of Australia. 30 January 1925. p. 8. Retrieved 22 January 2015.

[5] "FINE BUILDING". The Brisbane Courier . National Library of Australia. 16 January 1928. p. 20. Retrieved 22 January 2015.

[6] "Our History". Brisbane Clinic . Retrieved 22 January 2015.