[1] Rodway is a single storeyed timber house erected c. 1904 for John Long to the design of architect Harry Marks on a 40-acre site on the Toowoomba Range.

Renamed Rodway after his birthplace in Somersetshire in England, the house was described as one of the most picturesque and beautiful homes in the vicinity of the city.

After the death of Annie Frith in 1952, the property was transferred to PJ Seymour, LH Corser, and Leo and Isabel Lynch.

The property was subdivided and later sold, with the Lynches retaining the house on a 5-acre block, later reduced to 4 acres to allow for the provision of new roads.

[1] The property was again subdivided in the mid-1990s, and the land the west of the house beyond the border of camphor laurel trees was removed from the heritage register in 1998.

[1] Rodway is a single-storeyed chamferboard residence with a corrugated iron hipped roof and projecting north gable.

The building, located on the Toowoomba Range, is situated on a south sloping site, overlooking the Brisbane Valley to the southeast, with a border of mature camphor laurel trees to the west boundary and Norfolk pines to the north.

[1] There are verandahs to the south, east, northeast and northwest, and a kitchen wing and an attached enclosed tankstand to the west.

The open verandahs have an unlined corrugated iron ogee shaped awning with timber posts, brackets and grid-like balustrade.

The western border of camphor laurel trees remain, the southwest section of which is fenced off to form a horse paddock.

[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.