page_title: Southport Drill Hall
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Southport Drill Hall / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of plaque at the Southport Drill Hall in Southport, Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia.
context_page_description: Southport Drill Hall is a heritage-listed drill hall at 210 Queen Street, Southport, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by George Connolly and built in 1890 by John Fortune. It is also known as Southport Drill Shed. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 5 October 1998.
context_section_description: The Southport Drill Hall is a timber building situated on the southern side of Owen Park, Southport, among a number of other timber buildings. The building is of single skinned construction, timber framed and clad externally with chamfered boards and elevated on concrete stumps. The corrugated iron clad roof comprises a curved section over the main hall abutting a skillion roof over a row of offices. The curved section is supported on curved wrought iron trusses and the curved sections of the end walls have high level fixed louvre ventilation panels (now clad internally with sheeting) above which is vertical boarding. The northern face of the building houses the principal entrance through a large double timber boarded door. Flanking the door are two large double unglazed window openings which are protected with timber boarded shutters. Centrally located on the two ends of the building is a similar double window opening protected with timber shutters. The southern face of the building, where the offices are located, has four small vertical sash windows regularly spaced along the face of the building.
  Internally, the building comprises a large open space from which access is provided to four small rooms in a row on the southern side of the building. Separating the smaller rooms from the large central room is a single skinned timber boarded partition. External access is provided to the eastern most office via an external open tread timber stair of four steps shades by an ornate awning supported on fretwork brackets. The large internal room is open to the wrought iron roof trusses. This room houses ephemera and fittings from the Queensland Naval Brigade Southport Volunteer Company who now use the building and retains a strong sense of its military history.
caption: Plaque, 2015
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