The Trustees Chambers is a

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commercial building located at 43 Queen Street,

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. It is currently used by the

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. It was designed by Addison & Corrie and built by Walter Taylor. It was also known as ANZ Bank. It was added to the

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on 21 October 1992.

History

This building was constructed c. 1900. The site was purchased by the

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in 1853. In 1866 the bank erected premises on the corner of Queen and

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Streets across part of both allotments (later rebuilt as the

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), and the remainder of the site became a garden associated with the bank residence. In February 1899 the bank decided to construct a building on the remainder of the site and engaged architects Addison and Corrie to design a two storeyed commercial building. Walter Taylor was the contractor, and the building containing offices and shops was completed in late 1900 at a cost of £6,737. The basement and ground floor were leased to Queensland Trustees Limited, while the upper floors was leased to several legal firms. Queensland Trustees moved to other premises in 1913, but the building remained known as

Trustee Chambers Trustee Chambers is a heritage-listed former house and subsequent commercial building at 170 Quay Street, Rockhampton, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by architect John William Wilson and built from 1876 to 1877. It ...

. Alterations to Trustees Chambers were made in late 1933. In November 1935 Trustees Chambers was sold to HA Manahan & Sons Proprietary Limited, chain store grocers. In 1957 the Prudential Assurance Company Limited purchased the building and leased it to the Australia and New Zealand Bank Ltd. In 1985 ANZ Properties (Australia) Limited became the registered proprietors. In 2016, the building was available for lease.

Description

Trustees Chambers is a two-storeyed brick building, with rendered decoration, located beside the

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at the southern end of the Myer Centre in Queen Street. The classical main facade, has an

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at the first floor level. The verandah has three arched openings and at each end are square headed window openings. Square

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with florid

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are situated to each side of these windows and at each end of the

which has matching engaged

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to each side of every arch. The originally unrendered brickwork on the first floor has been painted. The shopfronts at street level are modern in materials and design. At the rear the building takes on a domestic scale with separate hipped roofs, a

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, and a timber verandah at first floor level which extends around to the original toilets, which are located in a narrow wing are the rear of the building. Internally the building has some intact portions. In a front section of the basement the vaulted underside of the slab above supported on

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is clearly visible. This has three

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s supported on two rows of columns extending five bays back from the front of the building. A pair of double-hung sash windows exist at the side to the rear of the building behind the neighbouring Bank of New South Wales building.

Heritage listing

Trustees Chambers was listed on the

on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places. The place is important because of its aesthetic significance. The building demonstrates the principal characteristics of a

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commercial building and is important in exhibiting aesthetic characteristics valued by the community, in particular, the arcaded first floor and the buildings' contribution to the streetscape of Queen Street as one of a group of surviving 19th and 20th century buildings and facades.

References

Attribution

External links

{{Commons category-inline, 43 Queen Street, Brisbane Queensland Heritage Register Queen Street, Brisbane Commercial buildings in Queensland Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register Heritage of Brisbane Commercial buildings completed in 1900 Bank buildings in Queensland GHM Addison buildings Leslie Corrie buildings