Rockfield

This residence was built circa 1890 for Captain Daniel McGregor, a coal merchant, who purchased the allotment in 1890. Kangaroo Point was one of Brisbane’s earliest suburbs and from around the 1860s to the 1920s drew middle-class residents who constructed substantial homes on higher ground, overlooking the river. McGregor was declared insolvent in 1895 and lost ownership of the house, although he remained in residence until 1898. Known as ‘Rockfield’ from 1897, the large Victorian residence has been owned by a number of proprietors, including the Lamb family, of the adjacent residence ‘Home’.