Addresses
Type of place
House
Period
Federation 1890-1914
Style
Arts and Crafts, Free Gothic
This is an image of the local heritage place known as 19th Century Residence
142 Barton Road, Hawthorne
Addresses
Type of place
House
Period
Federation 1890-1914
Style
Arts and Crafts, Free Gothic
This timber residence was built circa 1890 for accountant and government auctioneer James Comrie and his wife Rosa. After the Comrie’s moved out of the house in the mid 1890s, it may have been rented out until the Bracewell family puchased the house in 1928. The house was still owned by the Bracewell family at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Lot plan
L4_RP58390
Key dates
Local Heritage Place Since —
Date of Citation —
Construction
Roof: Corrugated iron;Walls: Timber
Criterion for listing
(A) HistoricalInteractive mapping
Lot plan
L4_RP58390
Key dates
Local Heritage Place Since —
Date of Citation —
Construction
Roof: Corrugated iron;Walls: Timber
Criterion for listing
(A) HistoricalInteractive mapping
History
The house appears to have been constructed in or just after 1890 for James and Rosa Comrie. Comrie was an accountant by profession and for a time worked for the Government Auctioneer, G.T Bell. At the time Barton Road was sometimes known as Veitch’s lane and it appears listed under both these names in early Post Office Directories. Thomas Arthur Veitch was an early land-holder in the area and 142 Barton Road was originally part of a 58 acre holding that he acquired in 1881.
The Comries left their property sometime in the mid 1890s. It was then a little over two roods in size. For nearly thirty years it appears to have been held by a joint ownership arrangement and the house was possibly let during this period.
Post Office directories show Aubrey Newbold Bracewell had moved into the street around 1925 or 26 and title deeds show that he and his wife Jean eventually purchased the property on 11 April 1928. He may have rented the property before buying it. In the 1940s some sections of the land were sold off and by the time a new certificate of title was issued in 1955, the size of the block had contracted to its present 33 and 4/10 perches in size.
The property has remained in the hands of the Bracewell family since 1928.
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:
Citation prepared by — Brisbane City Council (page revised June 2022)