[1] Farrington House is a single storeyed timber building with attic which was apparently built in about 1882 for Frederick Waters Wilson.

[1] Apparently the property was rented from the mid 1890s till 1915 when David Henry Rhoades, a furniture manufacturer and retailer of Fortitude Valley, subdivided the estate so that the land was reduced to 2 acres (0.81 ha).

Though little remains of the original garden and orchard, the well is still viable and the position provides 360° views of Brisbane from this prominent hill-top house.

The corrugated iron gabled roof is punctuated with three dormer windows each on the tapering northern and southern sides.

The gable ends of the buildings feature narrow timber balconies, with hipped awnings, flanked by multi pane casement windows.

A cast iron balustrade, signed with John Grase Registered December 14, 1883 NO14.1, is surmounted by a bread loaf handrail.

[1] The front door is half glazed with a leadlight panel incorporating the words Farrington House and Dulcius ex Asperis.

[1] To the west of the central hallway are the formal dining and drawing rooms, separated by a four leaf folding cedar doorway, with six panelled doors.

A dark grey marble chimney piece, denoting the former dining room, features early encaustic tiles and cast iron fireplace.

The building is of importance for its architectural quality, as a picturesque version of a late nineteenth century Queensland house, which remains intact in form.