| Boondah | |
| Coordinates: | -27.468°N 152.9954°W |
| Location: | 50 Howard Street, Paddington, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Beginning Label: | Design period |
| Beginning Date: | 1900–1914 (early 20th century) |
| Architect: | Richard Gailey |
| Architecture: | Victorian Filigree, Queenslander |
| Designation1: | Queensland Heritage Register |
| Designation1 Offname: | Boondah |
| Designation1 Type: | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designation1 Date: | 11 June 1993 |
| Designation1 Number: | 600288 |
| Designation1 Free1name: | Significant period |
| Designation1 Free1value: | 1900s (fabric, historical) |
| Designation1 Free2name: | Significant components |
| Designation1 Free2value: | residential accommodation – main house, garden/grounds |
| Designation1 Free3name: | Builders |
Boondah is a heritage-listed detached house at 50 Howard Street, Paddington, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was apparently designed by Richard Gailey and built . It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 11 June 1993.[1]
This single-storeyed weatherboard house stands on land which was alienated in 1879 by George Blaxland Mott and subdivided after his death in 1882.[1]
Ellen Wickham, widow of Captain John Clements Wickham, the governing official of Moreton Bay settlement until 1859, bought the site and lived there in a house called Manchonlas until her death in 1896. This dwelling was razed about 1906 and was replaced by Boondah c.1907, apparently to a design by notable architect Richard Gailey.[1]
By 1907 Fenton Robinson was living at this address and the property remained with the Robinson family until 1967 and was acquired by the present owners in 1972.[1]
Boondah is a single-storeyed weatherboard house with a corrugated iron gabled roof. The building sits on concrete stumps with timber batten infill and is sited on a ridge with the ground sloping to the northeast.[1]
The symmetrical north elevation has two corner octagonal ogee shaped cupola's with tall timber finials and a central front entrance porch with a projecting gable roof. The building has verandahs with corrugated iron skillion roofs to the north, east and west which encircle the octagonal shaped corner bays.[1]
The verandahs have cast iron balustrades with a timber valance and brackets. The verandah walls have single skin vertically jointed boards with French doors and sash windows. The front entrance has leadlight fanlight and sidelights, and opens to a central corridor leading to the rear of the building.[1]
A rear verandah has been enclosed and the rear subfloor space has been bricked in. The grounds include an inground concrete swimming pool in the southeast and a large camphor laurel tree to the southwest. Entry to the site is from the north via a driveway cut into a steep earth embankment.[1]
Boondah was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 11 June 1993 having satisfied the following criteria.[1]
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.
Boondah is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a federation period timber house.[1]
Boondah, both the house and grounds, is important in exhibiting aesthetic characteristics valued by the Brisbane community, in particular as a striking timber house composed with elaborate verandahs and roofline and for the streetscape contribution of the building and grounds.[1]
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.
Boondah is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a federation period timber house.[1]
The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.
Boondah, both the house and grounds, is important in exhibiting aesthetic characteristics valued by the Brisbane community, in particular as a striking timber house composed with elaborate verandahs and roofline and for the streetscape contribution of the building and grounds.[1]