Pics of the house my wife and I bought about 4 years ago and spent 6 months doing up. The house was built around 1905/06 by Manny Wilkins who was the manager of the Downs Dairy co op for 27 years. The house is situated at 174 Bridge St. Toowoomba Queensland Australia. Queensland colonial timber architecture is a fairly unique answer to the climate which exists in this part of the world, with the houses generally made of timber with high ceilings copious roof spaces and wide verandahs and sun shades made of metal on the outside of the windows all of which are exhibited on this house. The use of pressed metal ceilings was used extensively even in some of the smaller workers cottages, the use of pressed metal for a wall cladding internally was not used so extensively. The dominant timber used for these houses was a local timber called Hoop Pine, other timbers were Red Cedar for window sashes and local eucalypt hardwoods for the stumps. This house was unusual for the fact that hardwood chamfer boards were used and even though the house had not been painted for 27 years there was remarkably little deteriation of the outside cladding. All of the colonial style windows are counter weighted for ease of operation and the two windows in the parlour are a Marks patented window, countered and able to be opened right up to allow the window to become a door by means of window being able to be slid up into the ceiling. We re roofed and re stumped, re wired and re plumbed with a complete sand down of all old paint. Extensions were placed on the rear end of the house in a sympathetic manner so as to enhance the livability of the house.