page_title: Wilston House
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Wilston House / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Wilston House from other side of Watson Street at Wilston, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
context_page_description: Wilston House is a heritage-listed villa at 47 Watson Street, Newmarket, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by architect James Cowlishaw and built from c. 1876 to c. 1880. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
context_section_description: Wilston House occupies a dominant hilltop position above Wilston and Newmarket. It is a substantial, single-storeyed, low-set brick residence, principally Georgian in style with vernacular influences in the wide verandahs to all sides.
  The core, which consists of a central hallway and six rooms, is roofed with Welsh slate. Initially the hipped roof had a central well over the hallway, but this was covered with a low gabled iron roof by 1925.
  A rendered masonry portico with pediment distinguishes the arched front entrance, and from each room French doors with arched lights, fanlights and shutters open onto the verandahs.
  Convex iron verandah roofs are separated from the main roof by a small cornice and timber console brackets, and are supported by paired wooden posts with cross-braced capitals and timber brackets.
  The 1880s brick renovations are rendered to resemble ashlar, and it is likely the face brickwork was first painted at this time. Wilston House presents a highly intact facade, with a recent kalsomine coating to the exterior brickwork and render and a Welsh slate roof.
  Internally the house is substantially intact, although friezes and a dado decoration in the hallway have been painted over. Cedar has been used for the hallway flooring, and much of the joinery, including the fixed seating in the bay windows and some of the mantelpieces. The remainder of the internal flooring is of pine. There are pressed metal ceilings and some cast iron mantelpieces - part of the 1880s renovations. Plaster columns in the drawing room, also part of the 1880s redecoration, have been removed. A bathroom occupies what was previously the linen room, and the kitchen is located in a former bedroom.
  The site has been reduced to a suburban allotment. A sympathetically designed detached brick studio has been erected in the north west corner of the property. The grounds are bordered to north and west by large trees, including a large, mature Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla) in the northwest corner of the block, which dates possibly to the 1870s. On the eastern side of Watson Street, opposite the back gate to Wilston House, is a large, mature Weeping Fig (Ficus benjamina) and two other mature trees: a Jacaranda and a Tupelo hybrid (Nyssa spp), which once formed part of the grounds of Wilston House and are understood to be remnants of late 19th or early 20th century planting. These have been included within the heritage listing boundary.
caption: Building in 2015
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