Launceston+Federation+Houses

[Previous Post: Why buy Federation style? ... Next Post: Launceston's High Street ] toc Founded in 1806, Launceston is the nation's third-oldest city with a fascinating history traced in its beautiful old buildings and streetscapes dating from early Colonial and convict times to Georgian,Victorian and Federation eras. These beautiful buildings are kept alive with business and social activity and careful development control.
 * See also
 * 1) Launceston Tasmanian Heritage
 * 2) Launceston's Notable Houses
 * 3) Launceston's High Street
 * 4) Launceston's Elphin Road

The Northern Tasmanian mineral discoveries of the 1870's, and their subsequent exploitation by predominantly local companies, had, within a decade, noticeably affected the building industry in Launceston. > Australia’s largest copper mine at Mount Lyell, combined with the zinc, silver and lead mine at Zeehan, all contributed to making Launceston one of Australia’s richest cities. Launceston's Federation suburbs mushroomed after the mineral boom of the 1880s and to a large extent remain intact today.
 * The discoveries were of tin at Mount Bischoff and gold at Beaconsfield: Mt Bischoff, one of the world’s richest deposits of tin, was discovered in 1871; the Beaconsfield gold mine that opened in 1877 produced 26,500 kg of gold until closure in 1914; and
 * The resulting financial boom aided migration and supported the birth of other industries, Waverley Woollen Mills and Salisbury Foundry for example.
 * The Launceston population grew from 10,000 in 1870 to almost 18,000 in 1891, or 22, 000 if the suburbs are included.
 * Launceston had become Tasmania's commercial capital, home to most of the new mining companies, and a port now handling more exports than Hobart.
 * A new century in 1900 heralded a new movement: 97 percent voted yes for Federation.
 * Industry boomed and with it the expansion of the suburban areas of Trevallyn, Mowbray, East and West Launceston; In 1911 the first trams ran in Launceston to service these areas.
 * Altogether author Miranda Morris-Nunn has surveyed the erection of 724 Federation houses by builders in Launceston: (FEDERATION BUILDERS IN LAUNCESTON, Domestic Architecture 1893-1914, published 1987).- the source of most of this post. This does not seem to include some earlier builds, and may not include builds by architects.

Launceston Architecture
From the 1890s, buildings in the 'Queen Anne' fashion acquired Art Nouveau features. In the twentieth century, the traditional qualities of small scale, economy, and attention to detail continued, although detailing was sometimes inconsistent but rarely without interest. Vermont, 16 Adelaide Street East Launceston, designed by Alexander North, sold for $650,000 on Wed 19-Feb-14; listingTasmanian Heritage Register ID #3711
 * These styles, now termed 'Federation', were characterised by free planning, tuck-pointed brickwork, stucco banding, leadlight windows, and roofs covered with Marseilles tiles, although cheaper examples might be of painted timber, with corrugated iron roofs.
 * Elaborate woodwork was often used in place of imported Victorian and Edwardian cast iron 'lace'.
 * (Tasmanian) architects continued to be aware of the latest ideas through travel and study abroad and the ever-increasing flow of overseas publications.
 * Direct contact with such sources was preferred to the filtering of such influences through Sydney and Melbourne.
 * In Launceston, Alexander [|North] brought extensive London training in art and architecture on his arrival in 1884, and applied Gothic principles with much imagination.
 * [[image:http://i1.au.reastatic.net/456x342/570b9f8f6c8b5cf49e6f3d09344cf77c990544ac0665bcdec026931b43df8761/image4.jpg caption="Vermont, 16 Adelaide Street, East Launceston, designed by Alexander North."]] || [[image:http://i2.au.reastatic.net/456x342/dd08a6ec12e31f4447965c2ba5d7d9efc69a51bfbcaa046bb9206e29c5c84927/image5.jpg caption="16 Adelaide Street, East Launceston is in outstanding condition, remains fundamentally untouched with all its original period features still intact"]] ||
 * [[image:http://i3.au.reastatic.net/456x342/92d5f83682ceade69196cad9c60a23104f902e75b83ef88e564c9b40128955ef/image6.jpg caption="Art Nouveau leadlight at Vermont, 16 Adelaide Street, East Launceston"]] || [[image:http://i3.au.reastatic.net/456x342/94d16e283429bf8d772b5651f082298b3a74745bc7d322fa2cd4b1c435290e7e/image10.jpg caption="16 Adelaide Street, East Launceston shows Alexander North in an inventive mood"]] ||

In Elphin Road, East Launceston, the spacious allotments and wealthy inhabitants nurtured the architectural exuberance of the Federation style. The two architects whose work dominate this Elphin Road area are **J. Martyn Haenke** and **Thomas Searell.**

Architect ** J. Martyn Haenke **

 * Haenke (originally from Toowoomba, Queensland) was designing buildings in Launceston between June 1904 and May 1906.
 * Haenke managed to integrate elements of the Arts and Crafts Movement and bold Art Nouveau forms with the use of timber work, brick and tile common with his contemporaries.
 * Some time in 1905 he left for the mainland and then to California, where he became an architect of note.

Haenke designed three important Launceston private houses during his time with Gunns:

1. The ** Harrap house **

 * At a cost of £1,784 of 13 rooms with 12 foot ceilings on the corner of Wellman and Elizabeth Streets, commenced 4 July 1903 and completed April 1904, survives virtually intact and untouched as evidenced by the photographs, even down to its original light fittings with their shades.

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 * [J Martyn] Haenke's two-storied red-brick villas:
 * '**Egremont**', 20 Welman Street (1903-4) and the '**Manor House**', 36 Lyttleton Street (1905),
 * combine picturesque massing, half-timbered gables, elaborate timber verandahs and 'living halls', together with Art Nouveau interior details in timber, plaster, leaded glass and repoussee metal-work.' ( Neale in Goad & Willis (2012, p. 308)'; See portrait of GE Harrap in Tasmanian Mail, 4 September 1909 p.23.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nNnHbnU0OEk/VpuY62JxXOI/AAAAAAAAswQ/WM8S0XEZs1k/s479-Ic42/Harrap%252520house%25252C%252520staircase%252520and%252520entrance.jpg width="492" height="327" align="center" caption="Harrap house, staircase and entrance"]] ||  ||
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C_DO5DcBa1I/VpuY68_NkaI/AAAAAAAAswQ/-zpuLNOjcpM/s416-Ic42/Harrap%252520House%25252C%252520dining%252520room%252520fireplace%252520detail.jpg align="right" caption="Harrap House, dining room fireplace detail"]]
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XCXrJXKjTgI/VpuYnlCG5jI/AAAAAAAAswQ/DKAREveKDSU/s859-Ic42/Manor%252520house%252520fireplace%25252C%252520Harrap%252520house%252520two%252520fireplaces.jpg width="893" height="407" caption="Manor house fireplace, Harrap house two fireplaces"]] ||

2. The ** Bruce house: ** 15 York Street, Launceston
> QVMAG hold a drawing for a proposed residence to be built at 15 York Street designed & to be built by J & T Gunn for David Bruce dated 10 June 1904 (LCC:1991:AD:660). Haenke was likely the architect, check original drawing to confirm.
 * was constructed in 1904 at a cost of £1,492.25, 26 Outside contractors were used: Blackaby a former employee and Thomas Partridge were the bricklayers, but the plumbing, joinery, painting and electrical work were in-house.
 * Property known as 'Craigwan'.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jB0D6b3GM_s/VqBdTVCaDZI/AAAAAAAAtiI/qFHbmKCtPMM/s916-Ic42/Aerial%252520View%25252015%252520York%252520Street%252520Launceston.jpg caption="Aerial View 15 York Street Launceston"]]

**3. Manor House,** 36 Lyttleton Street East Launceston
> Apperly, Irving & Reynolds 1994: > //A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture: Styles and Terms from 1788 to the present, // > <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Angus and Robertson p.134.
 * previously known as 'Victoria League House'
 * Perrin’s ‘**Manor House**’ in Lyttleton Street preceded Haenke’s downfall. It was contracted at £1,600
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This building is used as an example of Federation Queen Anne architecture in:
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-moOtvpS_OPs/VpuYoYt1M_I/AAAAAAAAswQ/SRF2lwxFew0/s561-Ic42/Manor%252520House%252520staircase.jpg]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EcSxatEpulQ/VpuWUJ2sl2I/AAAAAAAAswQ/3MZyoWUaLoI/s456-Ic42/36%252520Lyttleton%252520Street%25252C%252520East%252520Launceston%252520image2.jpg width="561" height="423"]] ||
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P2mR8UrfBo4/VpuVIqlMaiI/AAAAAAAAswQ/WF7YBhxJvsU/s456-Ic42/36%252520Lyttleton%252520Street%25252C%252520East%252520Launceston%252520image10.jpg width="557" height="420"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KY1X7wmPdys/VpuVXLN-_VI/AAAAAAAAswQ/t5fUDaMHFvw/s430-Ic42/Manor%252520house%252520principal%252520bedroom%252520fireplace.jpg]] ||
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-khL1BRtfDYI/VpuU30V6fGI/AAAAAAAAswQ/27LwLF3g25w/s456-Ic42/36%252520Lyttleton%252520Street%25252C%252520East%252520Launceston%252520image9.jpg width="562" height="424" caption="Balcony, 36 Lyttleton Street, East Launceston"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZYqHloFwjjE/VpuVoZLu0QI/AAAAAAAAswQ/keR44cdTIDc/s456-Ic42/36%252520Lyttleton%252520Street%25252C%252520East%252520Launceston%252520image5.jpg width="569" height="429"]] ||



4. Rathgael<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, 8 Rupert Street, East Launceston

 * ** Architect ** : J. Martyn Haenke; Date: 1906; Builder: Hinman & Wright
 * ** Description ** : A single storey face brick and cement rendered Federation style residence with Marseilles pattern tiled roof of hips and gables. The significant feature is the central parapetted entry with the asymmetrical bow and bay projections on either side.

**Architect Thomas Searell**

 * arrived in Launceston about 1903.
 * Between his arrival in Launceston and the First World War, Searell was responsible for at least seven of the residences in Elphin Road, including ‘Kilmarnock’ for John Ingles in 1903 and ‘Lemana’ for Mrs M.A. Tyson in 1906, [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0g7YUgYF4cU/Vo-o71xx8pI/AAAAAAAAsRQ/e_34gWa7Fmk/s640-Ic42/Kilmarnock%25252041953624.jpg caption="Kilmarnock House, 66 Elphin Road, Launceston, Tasmania"]]

'Kilmarnock', 66 Elphin Road, Newstead
In 1903 Searell was designing Kilmarnock for John Ingles, the only two storey building in the group ; Its situation on the high side of the road reinforces the dramatic sweep of the design of this imposing building.

<span style="color: #333f48; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Kilmarnock House was built in 1905 as a townhouse for John Ingles, a well-known Launceston merchant. The completed cost, as charged by J & T Gunn, was a moderate 1588 pounds, 15 shillings and threepence. Last offered for sale over 33 years ago, this beautiful home was sold for $930,000 on Tue 23-Dec-2014. - Listing; Registered on the National Estate. Operated as a 4-star hotel. . <span style="color: #333f48; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 1.5;">.
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WzrHmkjOw3I/VpxvBLtvtoI/AAAAAAAAsxk/NXe-wQrb-E0/s800-Ic42/image2%25252066%252520Elphin%252520Road%252520Newstead%252520Tas%2525207250.jpg width="479" height="362" link="@http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-tas-newstead-117468163"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pjqZFfkp5RY/VpxvDzi7lRI/AAAAAAAAsyc/5C9P6vhfw0A/s800-Ic42/image9%25252066%252520Elphin%252520Road%252520Newstead%252520Tas%2525207250.jpg width="488" height="367" link="@http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-tas-newstead-117468163"]] ||
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nwP7VLvNCj4/VpxvCiW0gOI/AAAAAAAAsyE/ADsIUlnjUSA/s800-Ic42/image6%25252066%252520Elphin%252520Road%252520Newstead%252520Tas%2525207250.jpg width="477" height="359" caption="Leadlight Entrance in Art Nouveau style" link="@http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-tas-newstead-117468163"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5aOyETiA45o/Vpxu__hRaTI/AAAAAAAAsxQ/PmuHIPebJsQ/s800-Ic42/image11%25252066%252520Elphin%252520Road%252520Newstead%252520Tas%2525207250.jpg width="480" height="363" caption="Bay window with leadlight above at 55 Elphin Road, Newstead" link="@http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-tas-newstead-117468163"]] ||

Hillcrest, 29 High Street East Launceston
> Date: 1912; Builder: Hinman, Wright & Manser
 * **Architect**: also attributed to Thomas Tandy ( Register of Twentieth Century Architecture in Launceston)
 * **Description**: One of Launceston's most dominant Grand Federation houses, it was the original home of Wright of Hinman, Wright & Manser, builders. The house's compact two storey gable roofed form is extended by two upper storey balconies (the northern side being a particularly fine example of timber fretwork design) and also by a turret roofed bay window projecting from the drawing room.
 * A large two storey brick and stucco Federation style house. It has the full range of features typical of this style :- tiled roof with ridge decoration, elaborate corbelled chimneys, gable roofs with half timbered, bracketed ends, decorative timber bawstrrades, a corner bay window with a turret roof, leadlight windows and tiled entrance porch, it has a fine leadlight front door with keyhole shaped side windows and transom light. The front fence and gate are also intact.

**Lemana, 72 Elphin Rd, East Launceston**

 * (Scotch Oakburn College) National Heritage Registered . Tasmanian State Heritage Registered
 * ** Architect ** : Thomas Searell Date: 1906; Builder: Hinman, Wright & Manser
 * ** Description ** : Launceston's grandest Federation house, a large single storey (with second storey room in tower) brick residence, with a central hipped tiled roof and gabled projecting bays, each different. The corner turns on an onion domed turret and the tower has a vaguely Second Empire roof. Magnificent domed central section of hallway. [[image:http://www.australiaforeveryone.com.au/launceston/images/Lemana.jpg link="@http://www.australiaforeveryone.com.au/launceston/historic-homes.html"]]

This is a single Storey Federation period house, brick with tiled hipped roof, with an octagonal mansard roofed tower above entry and onion dome above circular bay.


 * There is an elaborate timber balustraded verandah enclosing two sides of the house. Inside at the intersection of the corridors there is an octagonal dome with four Italianate niches set into diagonal walls. The centre of the dome being an elegant stained glass dome light. [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UwEIpX2i8RA/VpgxZZgCw5I/AAAAAAAAsgc/yLkgd3HC-6I/s800-Ic42/Lemana%252520Roof%252520space%252520by%252520Miles%252520Lewis.jpg width="434" height="330" align="right"]]
 * Lemana is an outstanding example of a Federation style mansion.
 * Important because of the quality of the building, the richness of its forms and details and their intact nature.
 * The excellence of the stained glass work, alone, is worthy of merit. Stables at rear and original cast iron picket fence compliment main house.
 * **Condition and Integrity**: In spite of being used as class rooms, building is in excellent condition apart from insensitive additions at rear. - Australian Heritage Database id=12404; THR ID # 4179
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-myMGqOaec-E/Voh3SJ1XSvI/AAAAAAAAsLU/_gR_k-Y5pg0/s1024-Ic42/Launceston%252520477%25252074-78%252520ELPHIN%252520RD%252520NEWSTEAD.JPG width="478" height="364" caption="Lemana, 74 Elphin Rd, East Launceston, designed by Thomas Searell" link="@https://picasaweb.google.com/111063372849980216017/LauncestonFederation#6235364837855546098"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8pYBW1rRP00/VohxD7YWrcI/AAAAAAAAsJE/PjN1L6ZesLE/s1024-Ic42/Launceston%252520473%25252074-78%252520ELPHIN%252520RD%252520NEWSTEAD.JPG width="492" height="372" caption="Lemana, 74 Elphin Rd, East Launceston"]] ||

Architect Harold Masters
The architect ** Harold Masters ** was instrumental in developing much of Launceston’s Federation era architecture.
 * Examples of Masters’ commercial work include The Examiner in Paterson Street, the Mowbray Racecourse Grandstand, and many of the fine domestic residences in Elphin Road and High Street. [[image:http://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/storypad-C3fzmZSeE4zEq4PyG5Utt8/401a7b99-8499-4a3a-9d90-811bb70bcd23.jpg/r1_0_4510_2536_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg width="840" height="470" caption="The former Paterson Street site of The Examiner, designed by Howard Masters, 1911"]]

3 Lime Avenue, East Launceston
Hargate, 191 George St, Launceston
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uawWdKTGS68/VprYz1gYP5I/AAAAAAAAsrI/LWaUxcM4Jx4/s456-Ic42/image22%2525203%252520Lime%252520Avenue%25252C%252520Newstead.jpg]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-15ePlbW7sX0/VprY0ZuiTSI/AAAAAAAAsrI/TM8gh6PzVek/s456-Ic42/image23%2525203%252520Lime%252520Avenue%25252C%252520Newstead.jpg]] ||
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZYYpYMFW58o/VprY1h0fDmI/AAAAAAAAsrI/xjys8L3MR3E/s456-Ic42/image4%2525203%252520Lime%252520Avenue%25252C%252520Newstead.jpg]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k_rkvVLl8uY/VprY0wOSqCI/AAAAAAAAsrI/UAuq2f_iW10/s456-Ic42/image24%2525203%252520Lime%252520Avenue%25252C%252520Newstead.jpg]] ||
 * Architect: Harold Masters; Date: 1906; Builder: Hinman, Wright & Manser
 * Description: This was the home of Mr Manser of the builders Hinman, Wright and Manser and was the first house built of concrete in Northern Tasmania. - Old listing
 * A high quality townhouse from the turn of the century exhibiting many of the features from the Federation style vocabulary including terra cotta decoration, corbelled chimneys, half timbered gables, decorative timber bawustrades, corner bay window with turret roof, leadlight windows, oriels and timber fence. The building is intact and is a powerful streetscape element. (Australian Heritage Register)
 * An excellent example of a Federation style house with many fascinating details including decorated barges and gable ends, highly decorative timber verandah with fine turned columns and balisters, frieze and bracing, projecting bay windows and extraordinary timber fence.
 * The building is complemented by a good garden and is an essential townscape element. ( Register of the National Estate) - Listing
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FPj5D3VNA7A/Vpg8RVPgNSI/AAAAAAAAsmk/zfhJQGWROc4/s800-Ic42/5db0e52519ed8941f72ec4085345820beacd22de.jpg width="472" height="316"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6QBknoVqDdk/Vpg8ZR-Z2YI/AAAAAAAAsmk/aFDOxT1V6ew/s800-Ic42/99c24cac1bcba3aa48280951056acf6b3fb92415.jpg width="498" height="304"]] ||
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hLC-mZu3vlo/Vpg8cBaYYcI/AAAAAAAAsmk/KmP-sIjIi2c/s800-Ic42/191%252520George%252520Street%252520Launceston%252520Tas%2525207250%252520image4.jpg width="483" height="365"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5ZVJtVfB6qA/Vpg8XrXuaBI/AAAAAAAAsmk/urXGaSchAAM/s800-Ic42/9b02b019b682163da9a6557c5fedaad0dbb66b17.jpg width="554" height="371"]] ||
 * Offers Around $1,100,000 Considered <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333f48; font-family: Museo-Sans-300,Helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">"This outstanding Queen Anne Federation (property) has stood as a grand sentinel watching over the sweeping vista of the valley and a river at one time lined (with) masted ships."
 * "Hargate has measured the progress of time in a city where heritage is as much loved as its gentle lifestyle and beautiful scenery."
 * "Painstakingly renovated to ensure its glorious past and future comforts are catered forever!" - Listing

Launceston's 1880's Building Boom
Launceston had excelled itself by being in 1895 (after eight years of deliberation) the first city in Australia to install hydro electricity. While for some years the benefits were seen to be primarily improved lighting and industrial motive power, domestic devices began to filter through. Launceston's houses, particularly of the later period, maintain a strong regional flavour. There are also many more **timber** buiIdings in this period than might be expected, although there are two explanations for this: Most bricks used on buildings of the 1890s in Launceston bear the markings of Cornwell's successors either Jory & Cambell or just Campbell. Architects of this period were developing a new sense of space. Houses, instead of being facades with rooms attached to the back, were designed three-dimensionally. Spaces within rooms were experimented with, as was communication between them. > >
 * [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sGwSl_DroC0/Vohhi-yNHBI/AAAAAAAAsGU/44zt1__o1gU/s720-Ic42/Location%252520of%252520Federation%252520Houses%252520built%2525201893-1914.jpg width="397" height="613"]] || [[image:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IXf63FoEpKA/VohhgXFHP1I/AAAAAAAAsGM/evahuakLIZY/s676-Ic42/Launceston%252520map.jpg width="597" height="601"]] ||
 * By 1903 the City Electrical Engineer was anticipating the need to extend the capacity of the transformers and the size of the mains to meet the growing popularity of electrical cooking appliances, radiators, boilers and flat irons. (Mayors Valedictory Address. Launceston. 1903).
 * Timber fretwork enabled the builder to put more of his own individuality into at least the detailing of his work.
 * There is, for instance, a marked difference between houses of this period in Westbury and those in Launceston.
 * There was a growing awareness of the usefulness of Tasmanian timber.
 * In the early 1880s when the building boom first took off, the Examiner noted that the standard of bricks was falling, demand was exceeding supply and with prices between £2/5/0 and £2/10/0 for 1000 bricks onto which often had to be added cartage from Westbury, Longford or Deloraine, builders were refusing contracts in brickwork because they felt they would only lose money on them.[27/4/1882].
 * In 1898 J & T Gunn took over this Glen Dhu brickyard installing new machinery and producing 100,000 bricks daily.
 * These would have been produced primarily for self-consumption, for not only were the Gunns by far the largest building firm in Launceston but they also constructed proportionately more brick buildings.
 * Outside, brick and tiles were favoured, and sometimes ornamental shingles.
 * Rooflines were important, and many houses were given ornamental ridge-capping, exaggerated chimneys and asymmetrical projections to make these more pronounced.
 * Many of the buildings in Elphin Road come into this category.

** 119 Elphin Road **Newstead Launceston
> A fine example of a Federation style house. Set low down with respect to the street, with a distinctive gabled roofline with terracotta ridge tiles broken by tall chimneys. Bay projections under the gable ends, and a corner porch with curved arches and brick piers complete the design. (Register of Twentieth Century Architecture in Launceston)
 * Builder: Hinman, Wright & Manser; Date: 1928

**House for Mr Wright:** 2 Lime Avenue, East Launceston
Architect: Thomas Tandy Date: 1912; Builder: Hinman, Wright & Manser Builders picked up the superficial detailing of the new Federation style but, on the whole, failed to understand the new concepts of space (as, it must be admitted, did many architects). Perhaps the first of these houses was that in Trevallyn noted by "Observer" 1884: "...Mr Alex Young is erecting a very neat and picturesque cottage of a novel style of architecture known as Queen Anne ".
 * ** Description ** : One of Launceston's finest Federation style houses, built for Wright of Hinman, Wright &Manser (builders).
 * The top storey is within the gabled roof, the windows being projected out as bays under a half infilled gable. Above the main entry is an open balcony with a gabled roofed doorway. (Register of Twentieth Century Architecture in Launceston)
 * Instead, they continued to work to a Victorian plan, but began to introduce gables, timber-worked balustrades, valances, brackets and bargeboards, and a variety of new combinations of window.

Trevallyn, Launceston
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 * [[image:Trevallyn History.jpg width="485" height="491"]]
 * <span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">33 Bain Tce, Trevallyn, TAS 7250 **
 * Sold $405,000 15 AUG 2013 Source: Agent
 * Rented $350/week 19 JUL 2012 Source: Online Listing - Agent
 * Sold $368,000 15 JUL 2010 Source: Agent || [[image:https://img.othsolutions.com.au/resize/oth/property_photos/002/187/160/xm1bshy03jgv9hcjfcek6b337.jpg width="421" height="282" caption="33 Bain Tce Trevallyn, Launceston "]]
 * [[image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Werona%2C_Trevallyn_Launceston_TAS.JPG/428px-Werona%2C_Trevallyn_Launceston_TAS.JPG align="center" caption="Werona 33 Trevallyn Rd Trevallyn 7250 THR ID #4653" link="@https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Werona,_Trevallyn_Launceston_TAS.JPG"]] || [[image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Werona_balconies_33_Trevallyn_Road%2C_Trevallyn_Launceston_7250.JPG/800px-Werona_balconies_33_Trevallyn_Road%2C_Trevallyn_Launceston_7250.JPG caption="Werona balconies 33 Trevallyn Road, Trevallyn Launceston 7250" link="@https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Werona_balconies_33_Trevallyn_Road,_Trevallyn_Launceston_7250.JPG"]] ||

Invermay
(Population: 3,000) Invermay is becoming a cultural centre for Launceston. It is close to the Launceston CBD and home to the University of Tasmania’s drama school, the museum and art gallery and York Park, which features local and AFL football games. The suburb also offers a variety of shops and a boardwalk which runs through the historic site of Inveresk. The area has many character homes.



East Launceston/Elphinwood
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 1.5;">A prestigious area close to the Launceston CBD. Incorporates many of the city’s exclusive homes and is known for its quiet leafy streets. Nearby facilities include the Windmill Hill Swimming Pool, shops, doctors and private and public schools.

Elphin and Elphinwood
(Population: 2,250) A prestigious area close to the Launceston CBD. Incorporates many of the city’s exclusive homes and is known for its quiet leafy streets. Nearby facilities include the Windmill Hill Swimming Pool, shops, doctors and private and public schools.
 * See also Launceston, Elphin Road

Newstead
(Population: 4,370) One of Launceston’s upmarket areas with many exclusive homes. It is close to the Launceston CBD and nearby facilities include a swimming pool, shops, doctors and private and public schools.



Mowbray
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 1.5;">(Population: 3,250) Ideal for families, university and TAFE students, Mowbray is close to a large modern shopping centre, schools and the University of Tasmania. Located five minutes north of the Launceston CBD this affordable suburb is also home to the local greyhound and racing tracks.

Kings Meadows
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 1.5;">(Population: 3,750) To the south of Launceston, Kings Meadows is a growing suburb with good facilities including a large shopping centre, supermarkets, cafés, schools, golf course and gym. On convenient local bus routes and only five minutes from Launceston CBD, the suburb offers a mix of older homes on the flat and newer properties, with panoramic views, on the higher side.