Queen Alexandra Home

Queen Alexandra Home is a heritage-listed villa at 347 Old Cleveland Road, Coorparoo, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

By the late 1880s, Coorparoo was still principally a rural area, despite several estates having been subdivided and the suburb being connected to South Brisbane by rail.

[1] Nicklin and his wife Jane Lahey drowned in February 1890, when the RMS Quetta sank in Torres Strait, en route to England.

[1] Queen Alexandra Home was extensively refurbished for use as a community centre in 1986–87, and most of the additions and partitions in the Kingsbury wing were removed at this time.

[1] Queen Alexandra Home, located on the crest of a rise fronting Old Cleveland Road to the northwest, is a two-storeyed rendered masonry building consisting of an 1886 section named Hatherton with a 1919 wing to the southwest called Kingsbury.

[1] Hatherton is frontally symmetrical, with a slightly projecting gabled porch accessed by a short flight of steps with an arched valance above.

The rear of the building has a two-storeyed kitchen wing with a sub-floor room and covered walkways accessing adjacent structures.

The southwest side consists of one large room with a red and green marble fireplace surround, with painted tile inserts, at the southern end.

[1] Kingsbury, containing a large function room with two central timber columns to both floors, has French doors and step out sash windows, with incised architraves, opening to verandahs.

[1] Attached to the southern corner is a single-storeyed weatherboard building with a corrugated iron gable roof and concrete stumps.

[1] Queen Alexandra Home has a concrete driveway to the northwest with memorial metal gates fronting Old Cleveland Road.

A masonry retaining wall fence encloses an area of lawn with rose beds and a central flag pole.

Queen Alexandra Home, comprising a substantial 1880s masonry residence, has strong aesthetic qualities including the use of highly decorative cast iron.

Queen Alexandra Home, 1911
Eastern end of the residence, 2015
May 2016