Residence, Abbott Street

Residence, Abbot Street, New Farm
Residence, Abbot Street, New Farm
	Location of Residence, Abbot Street, New Farm in Queensland Residence, Abbott Street (Australia)
Location	41 Abbott Street, New Farm, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates	27°28′15″S153°02′42″E / 27.4707°S 153.0451°E Coordinates: 27°28′15″S153°02′42″E / 27.4707°S 153.0451°E
Design period	1900 - 1914 (early 20th century)
Built	1900
Architect	Robin Dods
Queensland Heritage Register
	Official name: Residence, Abbot Street, Hart Residence, Narallen
Type	state heritage (built)
Designated	28 April 2000
Reference no.	601020
Significant period	1900s (fabric, historical)
Significant components	residential accommodation - main house, service wing

Last updated May 05, 2019

The Residence at 41 Abbott Street is a heritage-listed detached house in New Farm, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Robin Dods and built in 1900. It is also known as Hart Residence and Narallen. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 April 2000.^[1]

New Farm, Queensland Suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

New Farm is a riverside inner suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The suburb is located 2 kilometres east of the Brisbane CBD on a large bend of the Brisbane River. New Farm is partly surrounded by the Brisbane River, with land access from the north-west through Fortitude Valley and from the north through Newstead. Merthyr is a neighbourhood within New Farm; until 1975 it was a separate suburb.

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

The residence was designed by Robin Dods as a rental house for his mother, and constructed in 1900. The residence was built adjacent to Dods' own house.^[1]

With the closure of the Moreton Bay penal settlement in 1842 Brisbane was opened up for free settlement; however, surveyors had begun subdivision plans for the New Farm area as early as 1839 and large acreage blocks were auctioned through the 1840s and 1850s. Throughout the 1850s the adjacent Fortitude Valley had begun to develop into a residential area, as more suburban allotments were offered for sale. The push towards New Farm was slow and did not take hold until the mid-1860s. Barrister and later Queensland Premier, Samuel Griffith purchased part of New Farm in 1870. Queensland National Bank manager, Edward Robert Drury joined the gathering social elite in 1875, purchasing acreage and constructing his residence on Bowen Terrace. Suburban residential development had extended solidly onto the New Farm peninsula by 1883-1884. This growth was accompanied by the introduction of a public transport system which was to have a major impact on Brisbane's suburban development. In 1884 the privately owned Metropolitan Tramway and Investment Company laid Brisbane's first tram tracks. Electrification of the tramway system in Brisbane commenced in 1895. By this time, although industries were established in the New Farm area, significant residential development had continued. Private buses also provided residents with transport in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.^[1]

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 approximately 2.5 million, and the South East Queensland metropolitan region, centred on Brisbane, encompasses a population of more than 3.6 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" or "Brisbanian".

Fortitude Valley, Queensland Suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Fortitude Valley is a suburb of central Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. The suburb lies immediately northeast of the Brisbane central business district, and is one of the hubs of Brisbane's nightlife, renowned for its nightclubs, bars and adult entertainment. At the 2016 Australian Census Fortitude Valley recorded a population of 6,978. In the 1950s, the suburb was the largest shopping precinct outside a central business district in Australia.

Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, was an Australian judge and politician who served as the inaugural Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1903 to 1919. He also served a term as Chief Justice of Queensland and two terms as Premier of Queensland, and played a key role in the drafting of the Australian constitution.

The Deed of Grant for the land on which the residence was to be built was granted to John McConnell in January 1845. Title for the property was transferred to Elizabeth Gray Marks, mother of Robin Dods, in June 1899. The following year, Dods had designed houses for himself and his mother. Situated on adjoining properties, these were constructed in 1900. Elizabeth Marks died in July 1908, however, the house stayed within the family for the next 70 years.^[1]

Dods, together with Francis Richard Hall, practising as Hall and Dods, is credited with achieving "an architectural revolution in Brisbane." For his houses and smaller buildings, Dods reassessed local timber construction, refining familiar elements. His planning and detailing of verandahs and external stairs and his ventilated roofs and gable decorations were widely imitated. Other ideas, such as his use of blind bay windows on narrow sites and his weatherboard enclosure of stumps, remain characteristic of his work alone.^[1]

Francis Richard Hall was an architect in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Many of his works are listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.

Abbott Street, New Farm, 2005 AbbottStreet,NewFarm,Queensland.JPG — Abbott Street, New Farm, 2005

The residence has been identified as forming part of the Significant Character Items outlined in Brisbane City Council's New Farm Teneriffe Hill Heritage and Character Study, within the Sydney Street precinct. Sydney Street is one of the earliest streets established in New Farm. A number of important architect designed houses occur along its tree lined length and in the streets to either side. From Brunswick Street, Sydney Street, rises gently up to Abbott Street. Dods' own house was sold when he moved to Sydney in 1913 and c. 1970 was demolished when a block of units was constructed. Some alterations have been undertaken to the Abbott Street residence; however, the house is still reasonably intact and remains as a good example of Dods' domestic architecture.^[1]

Brunswick Street is a main thoroughfare within the suburbs of New Farm and Fortitude Valley in Brisbane, Australia. The street is not entirely roadway but is a pedestrian mall for a hundred metres near its centre.

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Port Jackson and extends about 70 km (43.5 mi) on its periphery towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, 40 local government areas and 15 contiguous regions. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". As of June 2017, Sydney's estimated metropolitan population was 5,230,330 and is home to approximately 65% of the state's population.

Description

The residence is a single-storey timber building, with brick fireplaces and chimneys, with a steeply pitched corrugated iron roof. An upper floor with a dormer window, added in 1999, faces Abbott Street. The eastern and northern elevations have verandahs and the western elevation extends over a laundry built at ground level with timber lattice work for additional protection. The verandah remains substantially intact, apart from a section near the kitchen which has been enclosed.^[1]

Internally, rooms open to adjacent verandahs with wide French doors with breezeway assemblies. The dining room has a fireplace with marble surrounds and a "blind" bay window - a device Dods used to facilitate views towards the street or garden, but not towards the neighbouring house. The kitchen has a bay window, which is a recent addition, along the southern wall.^[1]

Heritage listing

Residence, Abbot Street was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 April 2000 having satisfied the following criteria.^[1]

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

The residence is significant in demonstrating the continued growth of the New Farm area in the early part of the 20th century, following solid suburban residential development in the mid-1880s.^[1]

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

The residence displays many characteristics which Dods valued in domestic architecture. These characteristics include a concern for climate, illustrated by the orientation and planning, provision of verandahs and large doors and the large, sheltering roof with ventilated ridge; concern for tradition, illustrated by the timber construction, well crafted from quality materials; concern for proportion and detail, evident in the substantial verandah posts and brackets. Internally, the blind bay window, characteristic of Dods' work, is still extant.^[1]

The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.

The residence is significant for it contribution to the historic Sydney Street precinct, which incorporates Abbott Street. Apart from the loss of Dods' own house, much of the original housing stock remains.^[1]

The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.

The residence has been identified as forming part of the Significant Character Items outlined in Brisbane City Council's New Farm Teneriffe Hill Heritage and Character Study.^[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 residence was designed by Robin Dods, generally acknowledged as one of the best architects to practice in Brisbane. Dods is noted for the introduction of new ideas on architectural design which were then current in the United Kingdom which, subsequently, influenced Australian architecture.^[1]

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Residence, Abbot Street (entry 601020)". Queensland Heritage Register . Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

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[qhr-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Residence, Abbot Street (entry 601020)". Queensland Heritage Register . Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.