Wolverton, West End

1. Landmark
2. Medical & Health
3. Religious Center
4. Landmark & Historical Place

Description

Wolverton is a heritage-listed detached house at 95 Stagpole Street, West End, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was built. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.HistoryWolverton, a single-storeyed, decorative timber residence, was constructed for Thomas Turton, a well known Townsville painter and decorator. The architect and builder are unknown.Turton, Savage & Co., painters and glaziers, and glass, oil and colour merchants, had established a business in Flinders Street, Townsville, by. The business proved successful, and for over 30 years Thomas Turton was Townsville's principal painter and decorator.It appears that Turton's private residence, Wolverton, was erected. Title to the West End property was transferred to Emily Helen Elizabeth Turton, Thomas' wife, in mid-1903, and Thomas Turton is listed as resident in Stagpole Street in the 1904 Queensland Post Office Directory.The original structure is thought to have comprised two large rooms divided by a central hallway, surrounded by verandahs, with a detached kitchen at the rear. Later the rear verandah was enclosed and an additional wing added. Wolverton was one of only five Federation-era timber houses with a distinctive multi-gabled roofline, built in Townsville. One of these has been demolished, another shifted to a rural site; the three (including Wolverton) remaining in Townsville have been refurbished.Thomas and Emily Turton resided at Wolverton until, after which the house appears to have been rented out. Title was transferred from Mrs Turton in 1925, and the property passed through a variety of owners and lessees in subsequent years. It is understood the house was moved sideways in the 1930s to create a vacant adjacent block and in the 1950s it was divided into two flats. In the 1980s Wolverton was restored to its pre-1950 appearance.

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Summary

Wolverton, West End is Townsville based place and this enity listed in Medical & Health category.