Queenslander with a turret
Raised on hardwood piers a traditional feature of the Queenslander home , this provided a cool space downstairs and an elevated platform to catch the breezes if at all possible upstairs . There was little or no insulation in these timber houses so design features with open verandahs were the popular standard choice of the time . These verandahs came in for all manner of decorative timber treatment with fancy brackets , capitals and balustrading , feature entrance doors to the verandah were constructed with slatted and lattice infills . This house also features a bifurcated ( Split ) front staircase as well as its enclosed casement windowed turret . These features were sometimes left open like the verandah and the grander examples had a matching turret at the other end of the verandah .
Built circa 1900 .. Fedreration
Graceville
Brisbane
Queenslander with a turret
Raised on hardwood piers a traditional feature of the Queenslander home , this provided a cool space downstairs and an elevated platform to catch the breezes if at all possible upstairs . There was little or no insulation in these timber houses so design features with open verandahs were the popular standard choice of the time . These verandahs came in for all manner of decorative timber treatment with fancy brackets , capitals and balustrading , feature entrance doors to the verandah were constructed with slatted and lattice infills . This house also features a bifurcated ( Split ) front staircase as well as its enclosed casement windowed turret . These features were sometimes left open like the verandah and the grander examples had a matching turret at the other end of the verandah .
Built circa 1900 .. Fedreration
Graceville
Brisbane