Dating your Brisbane home! When was it built? Brisbane house styles by date, tips and examples!
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- čas přidán 19. 07. 2024
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In this episode, I provide a guide to dating your Brisbane house (and I don't mean taking it out for dinner and a movie! 🤣)
I'm an architectural historian and my alter ego is The House Detective. I have been researching Brisbane, Queensland and Australian houses for over 10 years and the most common thing I am asked is, "when was my house built?" and "how old is my house?", so I thought I would share some of my tips for answering these questions with you. I also provide plenty of tips and examples.
I show you how to work out:
- How old your house is
- When was your house was built
- What style it is
- What features to look for
Please note this episode focuses on the most common Brisbane house styles and is only a VERY quick guide! It is by no means comprehensive and there are MANY exceptions to the rules, it is only a rough guide! Also remember that you can't date a house based on its style alone - you always need to combine a range of evidence. I will cover this topic in much greater detail in future videos, I promise!
00:00 Intro
01:09 The four main periods of Brisbane house styles
01:26 Pre-1900 houses
06:10 Summary of pre-1900 house features
06:41 c1900 - 1920s houses
08:56 Summary of c1900 - 1920s house features
09:03 1920s - 1930s (inter-war) houses
12:57 Summary of 1920s - 1930s (inter-war) house features
13:21 1940s - 1960s (post-war) houses
18:28 Outro
I really hope you enjoy watching and find it useful! Let me know what style your house is! Also let me know which era you would like me to cover in more detail first..... And don’t forget to like and subscribe!
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Love your videos! , we have I think a 1900's cottage in Stanthorpe (loved your video about the Sanatorium ) now an Airbnb cottage. I have checked the library when I have chosen paint , brackets etc during the renovation in 2003 but it is all original inside we only added plumbing and a bathroom (it had only a dunni at at the back)During the 80's and 90's we renovated three houses in Graceville ,Corinda ..now my daughter lives in a pre 1900's cottage in Oxley. We love history and preservation of heritage. Love from Stanthorpe.
How wonderful!! Thanks for taking the time to share!
Thank you! I learned some great new words and terms. My house falls between 1900-20. I would absolutely watch a longer, more detailed video. I find this fascinating.
Oh that's great to hear! I better get my butt organised to do longer detailed ones, now I've promised it! 🤣
Very enjoyable. Thanks for all the effort you put into these.
My pleasure! It makes all the hard work worthwhile when lovely people like you post positive comments! 😊
That was a useful synopsis. In answer to your question, I would like to see more detailed information about the first three, namely pre and post-1900, and 1920-1930s styles.
Noted! Thank you! Glad you found it useful!
Concise and very informative. Many thanks for the video. I look forward to using the info on my travels in Queensland.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for your kind words!!
Thank you for this video - very informative and answered so many questions for me.
Glad it was helpful! 😊
This was super informative. I’ve been going around my town and saying “ooh that one’s got a seperate roof over the verandah!! Must be pre-1900!!” I would love to learn about those funky 70’s homes, there seems to have been a massive flourish of eccentric designs in that decade.
Muhahahahha! Welcome to the dark side! 😂 Glad you found it informative!
For some reason I thought my home in Rockhampton was built in 1910, but I know now that it was pre 1900. The only difference is mine has French doors where the windows are. Thank you 😊
My pleasure! So glad it was useful!
Brilliant. I’ve moved from Queensland but if I’m still in the Queensland renovators group will share. Fantastic info
Glad it was helpful! Thank you 🙏
Brilliantly Done, Marianne. Cheers, Peter Latemore.
Thanks so much Peter! 😊
That was great ! Thanks. You learn something new every day.
Federation style is commonly used to describe alot of builings by their owners and the one style I think that is misused the most.
Thank you! Yes I agree! Also "Colonial"! That's why I steered away from them in this video, they are such broad and generic terms that they are kind of meaningless! They help narrow the time period a house was built, but don't really tell you much about the style in Brisbane. Bit different down south, where the Federation styles are a bit more distinctive.
Well, l have a small house, which l believe was 2 rooms only, and had another one joined, with a annex between the two peak roofs.. and it has the fuzzy glass.. so very original, single skin..
Sounds fascinating!
Great to see a photo of our house in your video. Always love your work.
Ahahahaha! I was wondering if you would see it! One of my faves! :)
Our house has a post war roofline & cladding but internally all timber vjs & timber ply ceiling with no asbestos, would make it late 30's or very early 40's? Also a mix of casement windows & single hung sash windows (at least the ones that werent replaced with aluminium some time in the 80's) would love another video with more info on post war!
Hard to say without seeing photos sorry! Sounds like a lot of people are keen for a post-war house ep, so it’s top of the list!
Great episode. Fascinating. My Queenslander is a porch and gable bungalow.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! The Porch and Bungalow is a very distinct style within the bungalow-roofed house styles isn't it! They're instantly recognisable as a Queensland house!
Amazing video, as always. My husband and I have a two bedroom Bungalow cottage. Some of the photos you used were almost identical to our house! We’re pretty sure our house was built in 1917 because during some renos our builder found a pin (it’s like a small badge, not enamel, but the pin on the back doesn’t hook into anything like badges do now) that has ‘Queensland Day 1917’ on it! It was such a cool thing to find! We’re going to get it framed so we can hang it up.
Edit: I’d love to see a video about house colours and the eras they were popular in. For example - the dark green, red, and yellowy-cream combination that a lot of older houses had / still have.
Oh how fantastic to find something like that!! It was quite common to pop a coin inside a wall from the year of the build, so I wouldn't be surprised if they just used that pin instead! Oooh I hadn't thought about a paint colours video - great idea! I'll add it to the list!
This was so interesting, we have a lot of beautiful old houses like these in Toowoomba
Oh thank you! Glad you found it interesting! Yes I agree, Toowoomba has incredible old houses!!! The date ranges and styles will be similar for them too.
Would love that post-war video. So much material on Queenslanders. So many really neglect the post-war information.
I agree completely! It's also my favourite era of Brisbane housing, so I was hoping lots of people would request it! 😂 Thank you!
This was very interesting, I look forward to more detailed videos
So glad you found it interesting! Ok I better get myself sorted to do those more detailed videos now I've promised them! 😆
I owned a double brick, stucco top half with tiled roof in Norman Park, backing onto Early Street many years ago. It had a plaster interior with ornate corners in ceilings, a green tiled and pink bath and separate shower with terrazzo floor. I think it was art deco but not typical art deco. I would love to know about that design, also all art deco, especially around New Farm. Thank you. I love your channel.
Oh that house sounds magical! It sounds like a couple I have researched. I love Art Deco too! Although there are a few purist examples, from what I've researched and seen, generally it was more common to have a standard exterior, with a few Art Deco elements or fittings inside, ESPECIALLY in bathrooms. Sometimes just the cornices/ceilings and light fittings elsewhere in the house. Thanks for your kind words, I love hearing that people are enjoying my channel! 😊
This was great!! Thank you!! Question when did they start using Casement windows? Our home what I believe from watching and reading your posts is the bungalow style and I am unsure if any of the windows are possibly original. We have casement windows but I do wonder if double hung were changed to these. Thank you so much for you time and information!!
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed! Casements came in in the 1920s in most cases. So, your house could be a late bungalow, or yes, the windows could definitely have been replaced. The earliest casement windows tended to have multiple panes of glass in them, e.g. two small panes at the top and bottom and a larger one in the middle, many small panes or even diamond shaped lead lights. If your casements have one large pane of glass, I would say they are definitely replacements.
👍🏻 excellent
Thank you! 😊
I have a stucco house and was told it was pre-war. Not sure if this is true or not, but when you cover the appropriate era for this style, could you mention that please, I'd be very interested. Great content, I'm loving it, thanks.
Hi Cameron, thanks for commenting! Stucco was used for a long period of time, so it is hard to date a house based just on that. Did any of the content in the video help support a pre-war date? E.g. roof style, window styles etc?
Thank you for this interesting episode, we now think out home is around the 1900s as we have the double roof and cross braces, we also have double doors with glass above them that open onto a verandah., would this also date to that era. Thank MaryAnne
Hi Mary, My pleasure! Glad you found it interesting! They sound like French doors, which were definitely used around the 1900s. However, like a lot of features, they were used for a long time, so you will find them in later houses too.
Do you know why some cottages have double gable roof? There are a few here in Gawler SA, i foundry worker cottages, and i never understood why!
Good question! Mainly fashion I think! They don't really provide a structural benefit but that's interesting they were on worker's cottages. What era are the cottages from?
My guess would be 1855-1910 based on what I know about the area. I just noticed a picture similar in your video! It always perplexed me, if for no other reason than stormwater management!
Awesome, thanks for the insights. I'm guessing our place is 1900-1920 based on this info, excellent to learn that and also now be able to have some idea of dating any building on sight... 🙏. Question for you..., is there a good resource to use to identify if a house (ours was apparently) floated down Brisbane River (to Wynnum in this case). I was thinking there may have been a specific registration requirement to traverse waterways...? cheers.
Hi! Thanks, I’m glad you found it useful! No idea about waterway permits or similar, but if it was moved between 1945 and the early 1980s, it may be captured at the Wynnum address in the building application records for new dwellings at Brisbane City Council archives at Moorooka.
@@thehousedetective - you're wonderful, thankyou...
Naw shucks! Thank you ☺️
Post war please.
Done! They're actually my favourite era of house, so I was hoping people would ask for them! 🤣
WW2 ended 1945
EEK I do know that- no idea why I said 44 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ or why I didn’t pick it up during the MILLION times I watched it whilst editing!!
Speaker, please, please, please, don't use any segments showing just you talking and waving your arms. 😥 It's annoying and distracting from the interesting topic. Show illustrations - photos and/or sketches - of what's the topic and you have plenty of good ones 😊 but don't flit through them. Focus. We're here to see the houses, not a speaker's face/room.
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