Gabbinbar
| Gabbinbar, Toowoomba | |
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Gabbinbar, 1997
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| Location | 344-376 Ramsay Street, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°36′41″S 151°57′35″E / 27.6115°S 151.9597°ECoordinates: 27°36′41″S 151°57′35″E / 27.6115°S 151.9597°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1876 |
| Built for | Reverend Dr William Lambie Nelson |
| Architect | Willoughby Powell |
| Official name: Gabbinbar | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600840 |
| Significant period | 1870s-1930s (fabric) 1870s-1940s(historical) |
| Significant components | garden/grounds, garden - bed/s, cellar, kitchen/kitchen house, steps/stairway, residential accommodation - main house, fence/wall - perimeter, billiards room, gate - entrance, out building/s, trees/plantings, views from, carriage way/drive, gatehouse, ballroom, terracing |
| Builders | Richard Godsall |
 Location of Gabbinbar, Toowoomba in Queensland
Location of Gabbinbar, Toowoomba in Queensland
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Gabbinbar is a heritage-listed villa at 344-376 Ramsay Street, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by architect Willoughby Powell for the Rev. Dr. William Lambie Nelson and built in 1876 by Richard Godsall. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Gabbinbar Homestead is a low-set, single-storey timber residence built for The Reverend William Lambie Nelson in 1876.
Rev Nelson was of Scottish origin and arrived in Australia in 1853 after being invited by the Sydney Presbytery to take spiritual charge of the Presbyterians in the district of Ipswich. He resigned from this position in 1860 to take up pastoral pursuits on the Moonie River. Prior to his resignation, he was encouraging subscriptions for a new Church of Scotland to be built in Toowoomba, and he was identified as a Presbyterian minister in Toowoomba in 1868.
Although the title for the land on which Gabbinbar is located was not transferred to Nelson until 1870, it is thought that he purchased it in 1863.
The first structure built on the property of approximately 100 acres was a small red brick house, which remains and is now used as the kitchen. In 1876, this initial structure was greatly added to in the form of a long, low set timber residence. Designed by Toowoomba architect Willoughby Powell and constructed by local builder, Richard Godsall, it comprised a central entrance vestibule flanked by two large rooms on either side and a connecting hall at the rear. French doors opened from all rooms onto 10 foot wide verandahs, which surrounded the core. It was described in 1940 as a long cream-walled house, with wide-spreading verandahs and simple gracious lines fronting verdant lawns and gay flower-beds.
The setting contributes to the picturesque qualities of the place which is entered through one of two heavily treed driveways. The carriage loop is still evident in front of the house, which is surrounded by rose gardens and many species of mature trees including jacarandas, palms, bunya pines and most notably, an immense Moreton Bay fig at the intersection of the two driveways.
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