Grangehill is a heritage-listed detached house at 449 & 451 Gregory Terrace, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

It is also known as Grange Hill and St Teresa's Church Discalced Carmelite Priory & Retreat Centre.

After first settling in Victoria pursuing pastoral interests, Alexander arrived in Brisbane, aboard the Souvenir schooner on April 9, 1851.

Alexander continued his pastoral interests in Queensland, on his property, Logie Plains on the Darling Downs.

In August 1884 Alexander Raff was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council, a position he held until his resignation in June, 1910.

[1] Raff married Elizabeth Millar Patterson, the elder daughter of a prominent Scottish medical family, in Sydney on 5 June 1862.

[1] On Alexander's death on January 26, 1914, the house was left in trust to his eldest son, James, who enabled the Red Cross to use it after the First World War as a convalescent home.

[1][3][4] In 1924 Brisbane architects, Chambers and Ford, designed additions to Grangehill, converting the house into two flats, one of which James Raff moved into for a short time.

These additions included a wing on the north west which housed a kitchen and laundry, and the closing of sections of the verandah for use as bathrooms.

The Discalced Carmelite Fathers purchased Grangehill in March 1950,[5] and it has remained their headquarters and retreat centre until 1995.

[7] Grangehill, a two-storeyed Brisbane tuff and sandstone residence with a hipped corrugated iron roof, is located on an elevated position above Gregory Terrace to the northwest and has views over the surrounding suburbs of Fortitude Valley, Bowen Hills and Herston.

[1] The central entry projects slightly from the verandah and has paired corner posts, a timber arch to the ground floor, and sandstone steps, and was originally surmounted by a pediment which is no longer extant.

The ground floor verandah walls are of coursed Brisbane tuff with dressed hammer-faced sandstone quoining to the main entry.

[1] The rear of the building has mostly coursed hammer-faced sandstone with quoining to the corners and an expressed band at first floor level.

[1] The southeast extension (retreat centre) consists of a two-storeyed U-shaped brick structure with a flat ribbed sheet metal roof.

The rear hall has a painted half-turn with landings staircase with turned balustrade and square newel posts.

An early storage cupboard adjacent to the bathroom retains the only section of pressed metal ceiling to the first floor.

Though it was extended at various times, the building retains a substantial amount of original fabric and is representative of a large early Victorian era residence.

[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.

[1] Grangehill was purchased by the Discalced Carmelite Fathers in 1950, and retains important associations with the order as their Queensland headquarters and Retreat Centre.