Rainworth House, Bardon

Rainworth is a heritage-listed detached house at 7 Barton Street, Bardon, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

[2] Sir Augustus Charles Gregory KCMG CMG FRGS MLC, famed explorer, and surveyor-general of Queensland from 1859 to 1879, built and lived in Rainworth House from 1862 until his death in 1905.

[1] He was also a vital personality in Toowong Town Council, a leading Queensland freemason and an influential amateur scientist.

[1] Rainworth is a vernacular, short-ridge roofed house with stepped but straight-roofed verandahs on three sides.

For ventilation purposes, casement windows with small wooden knobs may be opened above the French doors.

[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.

Early view of Rainworth homestead and outbuildings, circa 1875
Sir Augustus Gregory
Rainworth, residence of Sir Augustus Charles Gregory, Bardon, circa 1885