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Warrawee |
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Place ID |
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600332 |
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Permanent Entry |
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Address |
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10 Dean Street |
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Town/Suburb |
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TOOWONG |
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LGA |
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BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL |
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Theme |
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Remembering significant phases in the development of settlements, towns and cities |
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Theme |
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Living in and around Australian homes |
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Significance |
| During the boom of the 1880s, displays of wealth were common especially in the ornamental facades of public and commercial buildings. Warrawee is a more unusual domestic example of this phenomenon, particularly of the aspiring bourgeoisie.
Warrawee's grand display of columns, steps and cast-iron has long been admired by the local community.
This cakework facade has had an exceptional impact on the public mind, having been portrayed in various publication, prints, tours and media presentations. |
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History |
| Warrawee is believed to have been built in the mid 1880s, for Albert Henry White, owner of the three acre site. E. John White, manager of the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company, was then in residence. In late 1886 the property was purchased by Alexander John Hunter, who does not appear as a resident until the 1892-93 directory, though a James Hunter is listed for 1891 and 1892. Apparently the property was rented during much of its lifetime. In 1924 John Mullan, a union organiser and politician, purchased the house on 2 roods 34.3 perches. The present owners purchased the property in 1986. |
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Description |
| Warrawee is a vernacular style residence, with a most impressive facade and a full sub-floor. The twelve foot wide verandahs have elegant cast-iron balustrading, and brackets and are lined underneath with ripple iron. The verandah portico with its intricate fretwork pediment, groups of columns, landing, gates and iron lace is quite spectacular, complemented by the twin curved stairs with their scottish thistles in cast-iron panels.
The front verandah is supported by emphatic brick piers with elaborate capitals. Upstairs originally comprised a central hallway with two rooms on the left and three on the right, and a kitchen incorporated at the rear. The upstairs windows are all of the step-out sash type, and doors are of panelled cedar. The fanlights are casements with opaque, diamond pattern glass, though grooves suggest the former presence of fretwork panels.
The inside walls are lined internally with vertical joint boards and externally with chamferboards which are believed to have been milled locally at Pattersons, Toowong. Downstairs the unlined room on the left of the central corridor, which ran the length of the house, was reputedly the 'ballroom'. The righthand side originally comprised three rooms. Downstairs windows are all sashes, some being multi-paned. |
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Act 1992. Information available here is only part of the full Register
entry and should not be taken as an official entry. Absence does not
mean a particular place is not in the Register.
Date: 22nd May 2002
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