Arrangements were also made to include dress-making, cookery, ambulance work, geography, history, Latin and English to the syllabus.

[1] At a public meeting in January 1897, it was decided to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Victoria by erecting a new technical college.

The college, a two-storey masonry structure with a basement was designed by prominent Ipswich architect George Brockwell Gill.

Gill emigrated from London and settled in Ipswich in 1886 where he commenced work as an architect for the firm of Samuel Shenton.

In 1903 annual examinations in Ipswich which were previously run by the local College Committee were placed under the control of the Board of Technical Education.

Both the plumbing workshop and the teachers' common room were built by the Commonwealth Reconstruction Trainees as part of their training program.

The complex comprises four main buildings which are complementary in design, scale and form and several smaller single storey outbuildings that house toilet facilities and stores.

[1] The first and most decorative of the buildings, the 1901 Queen Victoria Silver Jubilee Memorial Technical College is the cornerstone of the complex both in its location and commanding presence of its design and articulation.

[1] The 1901 Queen Victoria Silver Jubilee Memorial Technical College building is located at the corner of Limestone and Ellenborough Streets.

The entrance comprises pairs of five panel timber doors under round arched fanlights accentuated by contrasting brick voussoirs, cement rendered label moulds and imposts and pedimented, bracketed string coursing to each street frontage.

The first floor fenestration comprises segmental headed double hung windows with five light sashes accentuated with dichromatic brickwork arches, cement rendered label moulds and imposts and contrasting brick string coursing at sill height The entablature which is punctuated with pairs of cement rendered eaves brackets bears the words DIAMOND 1897 JUBILEE TECHNICAL COLLEGE MEMORIAL in raised lettering to the frieze along the length of the two facades from the north east corner of the building to the south west.

The frieze to each breakfront bears the Latin words AUSPICIUM MELIORIS AEVI which roughly translates as "command better lives" in raised lettering.

[1] A brick masonry fence with cement rendered plinth and capping and dichromatic piers and iron balustrading encloses the immediate grounds to the east and south of the breakfronts.

[1] The entrance foyer opens into a large stair hall that is naturally lit by a roof lantern and central light well with sloping timber boarded ceiling.

The elaborately detailed timber stair is an open newel type with two quarter space landings providing access to the first floor.

It too is complementary in its scale and form and materials and as it is at the lower end of the site presents three storeys to Limestone Street.

[1] Classrooms divided by partition walls of timber with a v-jointed tongue and groove board lining are located on each level and are very intact.

The classroom block is connected at first floor level to the technical college building to the west and workshops to the south by timber walkways and verandah.

[1] Queen Victoria Silver Jubilee Memorial Technical College was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.

It is also significant in demonstrating Australia's close ties with the British Empire at the turn of the 20th century as it was constructed as a memorial to the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

The original 1901 building is of considerable architectural merit, and its form and fabric illustrate a skilled design approach It also displays fine quality of workmanship in the detailing of its materials and finishes.

[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.