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The Toowoomba House
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This material is a summary of published work by the Heritage Advisory Group of the Toowoomba City Council > Styles and History Introduction to the styles Style 1 The Colonial House Style 2 The Cottage Style 3 The Early Gabled House Style 4 T... (more info) > Styles and History Style 6 The Queensland Bungalow Style 7 The Custom Queensland Bungalow Style 8 The Bungalow along Southern Lines Da... (more info)
 * ** The Toowoomba House - Part 1 **
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===More Information: Toowoomba’s Heritage Treasures 2008 ===

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Introduction
To identify Toowoomba city’s main heritage styles, eight typical Toowoomba house styles are considered and some good examples mentioned.

The Eight Styles
> In Queensland the variety of architectural styles is less than in the older, richer and more populous southern States. These styles fall into the following two main groups:
 * In consequence, it works well to talk of Toowoomba’s heritage houses as belonging to one or other of just eight styles.
 * 1) The Early Toowoomba House, 1890 to 1918
 * 2) The Bungalow, 1920s and 1930s

1. The Colonial House
The quintessential early Queensland house,
 * usually symmetrical and with generous, Georgian-derived proportions,
 * spacious verandas,
 * pyramidal roof
 * and central hall.[[image:104_Herries_Street,_built_1879.jpg width="536" height="232" align="right"]]

Good examples include:
 * 15 Boulton Terrace, 1896
 * 86 Campbell Street, (east veranda, 1995)
 * 181 Geddes Street
 * 10 Hampshire Street, 1907 (side verandas, 1991)
 * Bonnie Doon, 74 Herries Street, 1893
 * 104 Herries Street, 1879
 * 107 Herries Street
 * 14 Sir Street, c.1890, renovated 1996
 * Te Hoa, 84 Campbell Street, c.1900

2. The Cottage
Similar to the Colonial House—
 * pyramidal roof and front veranda,
 * symmetrical and with a central hall—but smaller. [[image:67_Herries_Street,_built_1897_or_1898.jpg width="535" height="280" align="right"]]
 * It was the typical, modest, early house of our towns.

Good examples include:
 * 10 Burns Street, 1910, restored 1983
 * 11 Eleanor Street
 * 21 French Street, 1900s
 * 67 Herries Street, 1897 or 1898
 * 12 Kenneth Street
 * 184 Perth Street, 1900, (side veranda is recent)
 * 203 South Street
 * 210 South Street
 * Chelsea, 1 Warren Street
 * 7 Warren Street, 1907

3. The Early Gabled House
Often quite similar to the Cottage but
 * more elaborate and larger, sometimes much more so,
 * and with one projecting front room with a decorated gable.

Good examples include:
 * 16 Argyle Street
 * Bronnington, 52 Bridge Street, 1910, restored 1987-92[[image:6_Garget_Street,_built_1913.jpg width="542" height="280" align="right"]]
 * Kanowna, 174 Bridge Street, 1905 or ’06, restored 1996
 * 12 Burns Street, 1910, restored 1997
 * 53 Campbell Street
 * 7 Cooper Street
 * 6 Garget Street, 1913
 * 8 Godfrey Street
 * 1 Joffre Street
 * 11 Kenneth Street, 1911
 * Cronulla, 135 Mary Street
 * Braidwood, 61 Phillip Street
 * 3 Shipley Street
 * 18 Stephen Street
 * 9 Warren Street

4. The Larger Early House

 * Greater area, more features,
 * decoration and veranda, and
 * sometimes architect-designed. [[image:Apsley,_120_Mary_Street,_built_1907.jpg width="546" height="283" align="right"]]
 * No two houses are likely to be the same. This division is not really a style as such houses tended to follow one of several.

Good examples include:
 * 24 Anzac Avenue, 1906
 * Crana, 23 Arthur Street
 * Hamilton, 50 Campbell Street, c. 1890
 * Claremont, 91 Campbell Street, c. 1905
 * Berwyn, 3 Cecil Street, c. 1902-6
 * Endlich, now Edinglassie, 32 Crown Street, 1911 or 1912
 * 89 Jellicoe Street, 1910
 * The Grange, 105 Jellicoe Street, 1890s
 * Apsley, 120 Mary Street, 1907
 * Rothesay, 91 Lindsay Street, 1905
 * 1 Moloney Street
 * 74 Phillip Street
 * Carningli, 67 West Street, 1914

5. The Federation House
In the years before the Great War, a new, more decorative style appeared with
 * splendid carpenter’s flourishes and [[image:Brentford,_97_Herries_Street,_built_1913.jpg width="537" height="274" align="right"]]
 * stained glass.
 * Window proportions become more elongated and casements (windows hinged on the side) were favoured.

Good examples include:
 * Cavell Cottage, 25 Cavell Street
 * 3 Cox Street
 * 255 Geddes Street
 * Brentford, 97 Herries Street, 1913
 * 13 and 15 Isabel Street
 * Repertory Theatre, 94 Margaret Street
 * Valetta, 96 Margaret Street, c.1910
 * Pikedale, 60 Mary Street, 1916
 * 149-151 Russell Street, corner of West Street

6. The Queensland Bungalow
Most followed similar patterns, often taken from State design booklets.
 * The State’s own new Twentieth Century house, quite unlike the earlier styles,
 * now without a central passage and
 * with an asymmetrical gabled front.[[image:43_Wirra_Wirra_Street.jpg width="537" height="270" align="right"]]

Good examples include:
 * 307 Bridge Street, 1934, (a 1926 State Design)
 * 15 Campbell Street, 1925
 * 184 Campbell Street
 * 12 Christmas Street
 * 26 Crown Street
 * 127 Hill Street
 * 1 Kingston Street
 * 1 Lydwin Crescent
 * 35 Margaret Street
 * 9 Somme Street, 1936
 * 109 Taylor Street, c.1934
 * 43 Wirra Wirra Street

7. The Custom Bungalow

 * Bungalows individually designed in the Queensland style.
 * They were usually a little larger,
 * more ambitious in detail, [[image:23A_Arthur_Street,_built_in_1936.jpg width="539" height="270" align="right"]]
 * with more decoration than the pattern book houses and
 * sometimes architect-designed.

Good examples include:
 * 54 Anzac Avenue, c. 1927
 * 23A Arthur Street, 1936
 * 13 Campbell Street
 * 54 Campbell Street
 * 32 Colvin Street, Drayton, 1935
 * 46 Eleanor Street
 * 15 Glennie Street, Drayton, 1929
 * 117 Herries Street
 * 73 Mary Street, 1917 and later
 * 123 Jellicoe Street, 1930
 * 29 Margaret Street, 1926
 * 52 Phillip Street, c.1923
 * 204 Spring Street, Middle Ridge

8. The Bungalow along Southern Lines
The bungalow was handled a little differently in the southern States and some people preferred to follow one of those styles.
 * Melbourne’s widely-read monthly **The Home Beautiful** was probably quite influential.

Good examples include:
 * Pine Lodge, 85 Campbell Street
 * 93 Campbell Street
 * Padauk, 104 Campbell Street
 * Casa Mara, 77 Campbell Street
 * 63 Cranley Street
 * 237 Geddes Street, 1936
 * 208 Herries Street, 1926
 * Tombonda, 43 Jellicoe Street, corner of Mary Street, 1932
 * Montrose, 49 Margaret Street, 1929-30
 * 67 Margaret Street
 * 260 Margaret Street, c. 1922

The Grange circa 1890 irreplaceable history!
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