There are advantages to the life of heritage buildings when developers become involved. This is Thornclyffe now remastered as part of a new apartment complex in Kangaroo Point. The striking contrast of 19th and 21st century architecture is a feature of the streetscape.
The following is taken from the Brisbane City Council's Heritage Register.
This house is located on land owned at one stage by Queensland explorer, squatter and writer of Queensland history, Henry Stuart Russell.1 Russell, who purchased the property in 1852, completed the notable Kangaroo Point home of Shafston House, which had been started by the previous owner Robert Creyke.2 This property was part of the land which adjoined the house.3 This land was one of a number of allotments (covering over 44 acres) that were offered for sale by the Honourable Louis Hope.4 Hope, apart from being owner of Shafston House, was M.L.C. from 1862-1882 and was a major figure in establishing the colony’s sugar industry.”
Thomas Faulkner purchased various parcels of land offered by Hope during 1875 and 1877 and subsequently sold the land to Barbara Murphy, “Widow” in 1881. The land sold by Faulkner to Mrs Murphy was not one complete allotment. Faulkner rather provided the land to Mrs Murphy from the various separate allotments he had purchased from the Hope sale. Thus a new title was drawn up providing Mrs Murphy with just over one acre and one rood, which extended in an offset pattern from the corner of Lambert Street and King Street (now Castlebar) to the Brisbane River.
The house appears to have been constructed in c1884-1886, the Post Office Directories showing the property as “vacant land” in 1883-1884. In October 1886 Barbara Murphy secured a mortgage from Sir Thomas McIlwraith for £800. She subsequently took out further mortgages in June 1887, June 1888, and October 1888 for £300, £300 and £200 respectively. In 1886 Barbara Murphy married Henry William Llewellyn. Llewellyn joined the Queensland Public Service three years later as a “Draftsman & Clerk” in the Colonial Secretary’s Department.
Although the Llewellyns appear to have resided at “Thornclyffe” up until the early 1890s they retained ownership until December 1907. This house was constructed during the height of the housing boom of the 1880s. This boom saw an expansion of residential. It was clearly constructed as a substantial residence in an idyllic locality at Kangaroo Point, designed to take full advantage of its high position along the Brisbane river. The land, at the date of construction, not only provided river frontage but, also bounded Shafston House. Shafston House had recently (1883) undergone extensive renovation.
Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Saturday 9 August 1879, page 6
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Legal Notices.
In the Supreme Court of Queensland.
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction.
In the LANDS and GOODS of FRANCIS BARTLEY MURPHY, late of Maxvale, Maranoa, in the Colony of Queensland, Grazier, Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that, after the expiration of fourteen days from the date of the publication hereof, application will be made to the said Honorable Court that LETTERS of ADMINISTRATION of all and singular the legal and personal estate and effects of the above-named Francis Bartley Murphy, deceased, who died intestate, may be granted to BARBARA MURPHY, of Maxvale aforesaid, Widow of the said deceased.
Dated at Brisbane this 8th day of August, A.D. 1879.
CHARLES STUART MEIN, Proctor for the Applicant, Queen-street, Brisbane.
The marriage of Francis Bartley Murphy and Barbara McLean was notified in the press of the time.
Rockhampton Bulletin and Central Queensland Advertiser (Qld. : 1861 - 1871), Saturday 15 June 1867, page 3
MARRIAGE.
ON the 13th instant, at the English Church, Rockhampton, by special license, by the Rev. Mr. Searle, Francis Bartley Murphy, youngest son of Bartley F. Murphy, Esq., M.D., Dublin, to Barbara, eldest daughter of Jonathan McLean, Esq., Bindango, squatter, Queensland.
Home papers please copy.
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