Addresses

At 55 Merthyr Road, New farm, Queensland 4005

Type of place

Villa

Period

Victorian 1860-1890

Style

Filigree

This is an image of the local heritage place known as Residence 'Glenisla'

Glenisla

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Addresses

At 55 Merthyr Road, New farm, Queensland 4005

Type of place

Villa

Period

Victorian 1860-1890

Style

Filigree

This late nineteenth century house is one of three identical houses built adjacent to each other following the transfer of the property from Paul Cole Atkinson to Mary Ann Willcocks, wife of George Charles Willcocks in 1890. Willcocks, a successful railway contractor, probably built these houses as rental investment properties to attract middle class tenants, exemplifying Brisbane’s late nineteenth century speculative housing development. He also built four identical houses in Moreton Street as rental investment properties in 1895. From 1900 the house was listed as ‘Glenisla’ for some years and then renamed ‘Killala’, before the property was transferred in 1922 to Lily May Nugent, wife of Francis Joseph Nugent, a naval officer.This single-storey, masonry house was built in the Victorian Filigree style. It has a pyramid, corrugated-iron roof with detached bull-nose verandah, decorative timber pediment over the front entrance and cast-iron balustrades.

Also known as

Killala

Lot plan

L1_RP8733

Key dates

Local Heritage Place Since —

Date of Citation —

Construction

Roof: Corrugated iron;
Walls: Masonry

Criterion for listing

(A) Historical; (E) Aesthetic

Interactive mapping

City Plan Interactive Mapping

Also known as

Killala

Lot plan

L1_RP8733

Key dates

Local Heritage Place Since —

Date of Citation —

Construction

Roof: Corrugated iron;
Walls: Masonry

Criterion for listing

(A) Historical; (E) Aesthetic

Interactive mapping

City Plan Interactive Mapping

Statement of significance

Relevant assessment criteria

This is a place of local heritage significance and meets one or more of the local heritage criteria under the Heritage planning scheme policy of the Brisbane City Plan 2014. It is significant because:



References

  1. Brisbane City Council Properties on the Web

  2. Brisbane City Council, 1946 aerial photographs.

  3. Brisbane City Council, Surveyor’s Notebook, 18 Dec 1924

  4. Brisbane City Council, Sewerage Maps, Detail Plan No 168, 18 June 1925

  5. Brisbane City Council, New Farm and Teneriffe Hill Heritage and Character Study, Oct 1995, pg 90

  6. Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Certificates of Title.

  7. Queensland Post Office Directory, 1890-1897; 1900-1902; 1904-1908; 1910-11; 1914-1916; 1920-21; 1925-1928; 1933

  8. Queensland Electoral Rolls, Electoral District of Brisbane 1925, pg 72 [Lucy May Nugent, Merthyr Rd]

  9. Baker, R. G. ‘Proposed renovation of existing heritage place at 51 Merthyr Rd., New Farm’, Heritage Place Risk Smart Assessment, Heritage Unit, Brisbane City Council, 2008

  10. Bennett, H, ‘New Farm from quality street to mixed assortment’, Brisbane Houses, Gardens, Suburbs and Congregations, Papers No 22, Brisbane History Group, 2010 pg 151-166

  11. Brisbane Courier, 12 Oct 1898 [see Electoral District listing for William Coulter Davidson, commercial traveller at ‘Glenisla’]

  12. Apperly, R. Irving, R. Reynolds R, A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture: Styles and Terms from 1788 to the Present, Angus & Robertson, 1989, pg 60-63


Citation prepared by — Brisbane City Council (page revised June 2022)

Victorian 1860-1890
Filigree
Villa
At 55 Merthyr Road, New farm, Queensland 4005
At 55 Merthyr Road, New farm, Queensland 4005 L1_RP8733
Historical, Aesthetic