page_title: Swain House
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Swain House / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Swain House and driveway at Chelmer, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
context_page_description: Swain House is a heritage-listed detached house at 139 Laurel Avenue, Chelmer, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from the 1920s onwards. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 12 December 2003.
context_section_description: The Swain house is a single storey timber dwelling with a triple gabled front elevation. It has a hipped roof clad in terracotta tiles.
  The interior is substantially intact and has a sunroom at the front of the house. The dining and living areas are linked and there is a large sandstone fireplace in the living room. The dining room is lined with timber and a two-way, lead-lighted cupboard, previously linking the dining room and kitchen, now links the kitchen and former breakfast room. At the right hand side of the house are bedrooms and at the rear there is a bathroom, sitting room and maid's room. Part of the rear verandah has been enclosed to form a bedroom. An open deck has been added to the rear and left-hand side of the house.
  The house is set in an extensive and intact 1920s garden that includes a grass tennis court. The garden contains most of the native and exotic trees planted by Swain in the 1920s and many fruit and rainforest trees. The grounds contain a large plantation of hoop and kauri pine trees near the bank of Brisbane River and a number of mature cedar trees. A row of mature kauri trees lines the southern boundary of the land and tallow wood, crows ash, satinay and yellow pine trees are found in a group to the right of the site behind the tennis court. On a slope to the rear of the house are fruit trees including a loquat, mulberry and mandarin and two eucalyptus trees.
caption: Residence and driveway, 2014
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