[1] During the 1890s, Rockhampton's business community underwent many changes, including the toppling of many local stock and station agencies and wool and produce brokers.

[1] The prosperous southern based pastoral house of Goldsbrough, Mort & Co. Ltd was established in Melbourne c. 1888, with branch offices thereafter opened at Sydney and London.

An advertisement for Goldsbrough, Mort & Co., Ltd in 1900 directed commercial cliental attention to the firm as "The Oldest and Largest Wool Sellers in Australia."

This location was to remain the branch wool and produce brokerage office and store for Goldsbrough Mort activities until 1932.

[1] In the 1980s and 1990s, the former Goldsbrough Mort Building at Quay Street was leased and utilised by Radio 4RK and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

[1] The main facade, facing north-west towards the Fitzroy River, has a central entry and two arch-headed windows to either side.

[1] The rear area of the building has been substantially altered with a new suspended ceiling and mezzanine level supported by new timber columns.

In this respect this building is also important in understanding the business expansion of the major southern wool and produce brokers, and stock and station agents firm of Goldsbrough, Mort & Co. Ltd. in the 1890s.

[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.

As an early surviving office building of the pastoral company Goldsbrough Mort the place has a special association with Goldsbrough Mort, an important organization in Queensland's economic history and the pastoral expansion in central Queensland at the turn of the twentieth century.