Cintra House

Cintra House is a heritage-listed villa at 23 Boyd Street, Bowen Hills, Queensland, Australia.

[1] The original Cintra, a two-storeyed Georgian influenced stone house, was built in 1863-64 for George Dudley Webb to a design by Benjamin Backhouse.

[1][2] In 1877 the property was bought by Boyd Dunlop Morehead, a successful pastoralist and businessman who was Premier of Queensland 1888–1890.

[1] Morehead died in 1905 and in 1912 Cintra was acquired by railway contractor and businessman Acheson Overend.

During World War II the American army used the bungalow (but not the main house) as a photographic laboratory.

The present two-storeyed verandah running along the northern and western sides, has cast-iron balusters, double posts, and frieze.

[1] Cintra House was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.

[1] The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.

Boyd Dunlop Morehead, 1880
The front lawn of Cintra House in 1993
View from Cintra, circa 1875