Walmar

The elevated sections of the southern side of Jane Street in West End attracted numerous members of the upper middle classes of Brisbane in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who built their private residences along this street, taking advantage of the northerly aspect. As a testimony to the varied class structure of the West End and South Brisbane population at this time, the northern side of Jane Street was home to members of the lower middle class, and skilled labourers, who naturally built more modest residences along this street. Some material evidence of this juxtaposition is visible in the present.

This large prestigious Federation house is the most prominent on Jane Street. It is two storeys high including an attic level set into its broad cross shaped gable ended roof. A verandah with a separate skillion roof skirts the lower level. This house is raised on stumps with diagonal timber lattice shielding the undercroft. A stair with timber battening to each side rises to an entry on the eastern elevation. The verandah has a timber dowel balustrade with the verandah posts highlighted by the use of decorative curved screens of battening making elliptical openings between them. Timber and glass French doors organised symmetrically below the gable end open out onto the verandah. At the peak of the gable is a panel of vertical timber battening. A brick chimney rises from the ridge of the gable parallel to Jane Street at its western end. The eastern face of this same gable has an open balcony situated above the verandah below.