Queenslander Architecture

Queenslander is the modern name for a style of residential house widespread across Queensland, Australia, and also found in the northern parts of neighboring New South Wales, sharing some traits with housing elsewhere in Australia while remaining distinct enough to mark out Brisbane suburbs from those of other state capitals; it is often described as Australia most iconic domestic architectural style. The style developed from the 1840s and is still being built today, typically as a high set, single storey timber house raised on stumps with a corrugated iron roof and wide verandas designed to cope with Queensland subtropical climate, and it reached a peak of standardized production during the 1920s and 1930s. A later local variation, the Ashgrovian style, appeared in Brisbane Ashgrove suburb between the late 1920s and the Second World War, marked by a grand gable roof often surrounded by smaller secondary gables.