Wairuna
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House in 2015
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| Location | 27 Hampstead Road, Highgate Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°28′59″S 153°00′56″E / 27.4831°S 153.0156°ECoordinates: 27°28′59″S 153°00′56″E / 27.4831°S 153.0156°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1896 - 1900 |
| Built for | James Allan |
| Architect | Robin Dods |
| Official name: Wairuna | |
| Type | state heritage (landscape, built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600226 |
| Significant period | 1890s-1900s (fabric, historical) |
| Significant components | residential accommodation - main house, terracing, fence/wall - perimeter |
 Location of Wairuna in Queensland
Location of Wairuna in Queensland
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Wairuna is a heritage-listed detached house at 27 Hampstead Road, Highgate Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Robin Dods and built from 1896 to 1900. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Wairuna was constructed as the residence of James Allan between 1896 and 1900, to the design of fine Brisbane architect Robin Dods.
James Allan was the co-founder of the drapery and outfitting firm, Allan and Stark who had outlets in South Brisbane and Queen Street. Allan and Stark were operating from the mid 1880s and remained in business as a major Queensland department store until they were taken over by Myer in the later half of the twentieth century.
James Allan and his new wife, Elizabeth Stark, moved into a house in Hampstead Road on the site of Wairuna which Allan bought on 4 February 1885. Wairuna was constructed in several stages from 1896 until 1900 and there is suggestion that the original house in which the couple were living was somehow incorporated in the new Dods' designed residence. However, there is very little evidence of this at the house, although material including timber and doors may well have been recycled within the Allan's new house. When constructed Wairuna included a tennis court and tennis pavilion, a fence and surrounding gardens. Robert Smith (Robin) Dods was a prolific, innovative and highly skilled Brisbane architect. Dods was articled in Edinburgh to Hay and Henderson and also attended classes of the local Architectural Association, before moving to London and joining the office of prominent nineteenth century architect, Sir Aston Webb in 1890. He returned to Brisbane after winning a competition for the Brisbane Hospital and began a partnership Hall & Dods with local architect, Francis Richard Hall. Dods was a sophisticated architect, able to well integrate the contemporary innovative design of the Arts and Crafts movement with the climactic features of a sub tropical climate. Wairuna is certainly an example of this integration of ideas, a finely designed building following the Arts and Crafts tradition with a high pitched complex roof, multi gabled and bayed projections and an overall picturesque quality, achieved whilst obtaining a comfortable and livable Queensland house.
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