StateLibQld 1 181595 View of Ross Roy from the gravel driveway, 1922

Ross Roy is a

heritage-listed This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many i ...

former residence at 60 Harts Road,

Indooroopilly Indooroopilly is a riverside suburb 7km west of the Brisbane CBD, Queensland, Australia. In the , Indooroopilly had a population of 12,242 people. Geography Indooroopilly is bounded to the south and south-east by the median of the Brisbane Ri ...

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Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

, Australia. It is within the grounds of

St Peters Lutheran College , motto_translation = ''Further beyond'' , established = , authority = Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority , schooltype = Private school , gender = Co-educati ...

and is currently used as school offices.

History

The house was built in 1897 for Daniel Collings, a tea merchant, and his family. The architect was Claude W. Chambers. In 1910, the house was bought by

William Ross Munro William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conques ...

, a pastoralist, who named the property ''Ross Roy'' being a combination of his middle name Ross and name of his eldest son Roy.

References

External links

{{commons category, Ross Roy (house) Indooroopilly, Queensland Brisbane Local Heritage Register