[1] Carlton House, which overlooks the Toowoomba Railway yards to the east, was erected by 1877 for James Augustus Pearson.

[1] Carlton House is located on allotment 10, part of the first subdivision of land in Toowoomba, surveyed by JC Burnett in 1849.

[1] William Glover rented Carlton House to his brother-in-law, Colin G Burn, a pawnbroker trading in second hand furniture, in 1924.

Daniel, whom was an Engineer at the University of Southern Queensland at that time, had the intention to restore the residence and its surrounds to their former glory and function.

Carlton House, a single-storeyed with attic brick residence with a hipped corrugated iron roof, is located fronting Mill Street to the east with access from Beech Lane at the rear.

[1] The house is symmetrical to Mill Street, and is constructed of Flemish bond face brickwork, with chamfered corners to openings and rendered courses at the base and above door heads.

[1] Two dormer casement windows are located on the east and west, the sides of which are sheeted with corrugated iron.

Two rendered chimney stacks with similar bracket design are located within the hip on either side of the building.

The main rooms have cedar joinery, including panelled doors with fanlights, architraves and skirtings, most of which has been painted.

This single-storeyed, Flemish bond brick building has a gable and hipped corrugated iron roof and sash windows.

The western side has a skillion roof verandah with brick floor, and is enclosed with a variety of materials including lattice, hardboard, chamferboard and glazing.

This single-storeyed weatherboard building, with a hipped corrugated iron roof and timber stumps, has an enclosed southern verandah and small, western lean-to addition.

[1] A tank stand constructed of tree trunk posts is located on the southwestern side of Carlton House.

The building, with its former kitchen house and stables, is a substantially intact group which date from the 1870s and exhibit design and construction of that time.