[1] Musket Villa, a single storey, stucco building, in the style known as a Californian bungalow and the adjoining stables were constructed in 1923 for well-known horse trainer and rider, William "Billy" Booth.

Musket Villa was designed by prominent Brisbane architects Hall and Prentice and built by contractors Lee and Brickwood.

Shortly after, he married Lucy Adelaide and named their newly constructed home on Racecourse Road Musket, in honour of the winning horse.

They commissioned architects Hall and Prentice to design a house, stables, garage and sand shed in a similar architectural style.

The complex, also named Musket, was completed in 1923 and received high praise in the 1924 publication "Harking Back - the Turf, Its Men and Memories".

They were regarded as being amongst the most "up-to-date stables...to be found in Australia", with Booth paying the "fullest attention to the comfort of his employees and his equine charges".

The house was purchased in 1996 for $400,000 by Robert James in a rundown, dilapidated condition, white-ants having caused substantial damaged to many interior pine walls and the verandah floor completely rotted through in one section.

The garage, being wholly infested with white ants, was deemed unrecoverable and demolished and the site on which it was located (between the house and the stables), subdivided with a new residence constructed.

[citation needed] Musket Villa, a substantial, multi-gabled residence constructed of timber and rendered masonry in the interwar Californian bungalow style, is located opposite the Eagle Farm Racecourse.

[1] The house is surrounded by a high, rough-render, and brick wall and is accessed by a timber gate located on the corner of the property.

[1] Internally, the house has a centrally located entry hall with paneled walls that opens onto a large combined living and dining room.

Designed by prominent Brisbane architects Hall and Prentice in 1923, Musket is an important example of a well-composed and skilfully detailed interwar bungalow.

Musket Villa has a special association with racing identity, trainer and jockey, William "Billy" Booth, for whom it was constructed, and with Brisbane architects Hall and Prentice as an example of their domestic work.

Designed by prominent Brisbane architects Hall and Prentice in 1923, Musket is an important example of a well-composed and skilfully detailed interwar bungalow.

Musket Villa has a special association with racing identity, trainer and jockey, William "Billy" Booth, for whom it was constructed, and with Brisbane architects Hall and Prentice as an example of their domestic work.