Eskgrove
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Renovations in 2015
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| Location | 56 Laidlaw Parade, East Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°28′42″S 153°02′48″E / 27.4784°S 153.0467°ECoordinates: 27°28′42″S 153°02′48″E / 27.4784°S 153.0467°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | 1853 - |
| Official name: Eskgrove, Eskgrove Cottage, Grey Eagles | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600187 |
| Significant period | 1850s (fabric) 1850s-1870s (historical) 1850s - (social) |
| Significant components | service wing, residential accommodation - main house, extension/s or addition/s |
 Location of Eskgrove in Queensland
Location of Eskgrove in Queensland
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Eskgrove is a heritage-listed detached house at 56 Laidlaw Parade, East Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1853 onwards. It is also known as Eskgrove Cottage and Grey Eagles. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
This single-storeyed stone residence was erected in 1853 for former Sydney bank manager Archibald Hepburn Hutchinson, on land he had acquired from surveyor James Charles Burnett earlier the same year.
Burnett had alienated Eastern Suburban Allotments 51-53, a property of just over 12.5 acres (about 5 hectares) fronting the Brisbane River near Norman Creek, between November 1851 and December 1852. Whether Burnett resided on this land is not clear. Hutchinson acquired title to all three allotments in February 1853, for the sum of £88/10/1. It is likely that a report in The Moreton Bay Courier of 18 June 1853, mentioning the construction for Mr Hutchinson of a stone building for a dwelling house, on the bank of the river below Kangaroo Point, refers to the construction of Eskgrove.
By the mid-1850s there were only three river estates along the south bank of the Brisbane River from Shafston Reach to Norman Creek: Shafston House (commenced in 1851 as Ravenscott for Rev. Robert Creyke and completed in 1852 for Henry Stuart Russell); the Rev. Thomas Mowbray's Riversdale (probably constructed c. 1851 - now the site of Mowbray Park) and Eskgrove. All three houses were of stone construction.
Hutchinson died at Eskgrove in 1854, following which his wife and children appear to have returned to Sydney. Their Brisbane house was retained as a rental property. Eskgrove was a middle-class residence with fine river views, and was occupied by a number of persons prominent in the development of early Queensland, including squatters William Kent Jr (1857–58) and Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior (1858-59), Governor Bowen's private secretary Abram Moriarty (1859–60), Lieutenant George Poynter Heath, RN, Portmaster of Queensland (c. 1861-c. 1865) and Robert Kerr Acheson by 1868.
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