[1] Wilcox received his early business training with the firm of Messrs Cribb and Foote of Ipswich and with Holberton's of Toowoomba.

[1] The outbuildings originally included a 3-stalled stable, harness room, carpenter's shop, two bedrooms, fodder room, coach house and hay loft; battened fowl house, piggery, and cow pens, to accommodate Wilcox's interest in farming pursuits as a hobby at Redlands.

[1] Redlands, a two-storeyed brick building, is located on a level site facing a formal garden and is approached via a long avenue of mature pine trees to the north.

[1] The symmetrical north elevation has a projecting double storeyed porch, with a flight of stone steps, surmounted by a cross.

The northeast and northwest corners of the ground floor verandahs have decorative coloured glass and pressed metal screens and infill panels.

[1] The building has Flemish bond brickwork with painted quoining, step-out sash bay windows on the ground floor and a central arched entry to the north with stained glass fanlight and sidelights.

The first floor also has a central entry of French doors with stained glass inserts, featuring painted birds, fanlight and sidelights.

The ground floor has rendered walls, elaborate pressed metal ceilings of varying designs and cedar joinery.

Playing fields are located either side of the entrance drive to the north, leaving the building's northern outlook open.

It is important in exhibiting a range of aesthetic characteristics valued by the Toowoomba community, in particular the decorative composition of the building's facade; the quality and craftsmanship of the cedar joinery, pressed metal ceilings, marble fireplace surrounds and stained glass; and the formal layout of the building, north garden and avenue of pine trees and their contribution to the streetscape of Stephen Street and to the Toowoomba townscape.