Oakwal
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Residence in 2015
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| Location | 50 Bush Street, Windsor, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°26′12″S 153°01′41″E / 27.4368°S 153.0281°ECoordinates: 27°26′12″S 153°01′41″E / 27.4368°S 153.0281°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | 1864 - c. 1948 |
| Architect | James Cowlishaw |
| Official name: Oakwal | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 14 May 1993 |
| Reference no. | 600345 |
| Significant period | 1860s, 1940s (fabric) 1860s-1890s (historical) |
| Significant components | kitchen/kitchen house, residential accommodation - main house, garden/grounds |
| Builders | John Petrie |
 Location of Oakwal in Queensland
Location of Oakwal in Queensland
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Oakwal is a heritage-listed villa at 50 Bush Street, Windsor, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by architect James Cowlishaw and built in 1864 by John Petrie with subsequent modifications to c. 1948. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 14 May 1993.
This substantial, single-storeyed stone residence, designed by Brisbane architect James Cowlishaw, was constructed in 1864 by contractor John Petrie for Justice James Cockle, at a cost of approximately £4,000.
Oakwal is thought to be the second residence on the site. An earlier house may have been erected c. 1858-59 for Brisbane businessman Daniel Rountree Somerset, who in May 1858 purchased over 20 hectares of land north of Breakfast Creek, which included the Oakwal site, for a little over £120. Somerset had arrived in Brisbane with his family in 1850-51 and during the 1850s was in partnership with John Richardson in a Brisbane warehousing, shipping agency and customs agency business. He was active in the movement for the separation of Queensland, and in 1860 was appointed Chief Clerk of the Queensland Customs Department and Shipping Master for the Port of Brisbane.
By 1858 the Somersets were resident at Rosemount on Breakfast Creek. In December 1858 they advertised Rosemount and several other Brisbane allotments for sale. Descendants believe that the Somersets left Rosemount in April 1859, and that they lived at a residence on the later Oakwal site before selling it on nearly 16.2 hectares to James Cockle in 1863, for £1,000.
Cockle was Chief Justice of Queensland from 1863 to 1879, and as senior commissioner in 1866-67 he consolidated many of Queensland's earliest statutes. He was knighted in 1869. The Cockles commissioned prominent Brisbane architect James Cowlishaw to design their new residence, which they named Oakwal. It is believed they derived the name from Cockle's birthplace at Great Oakley in Essex and his wife's birthplace of Walton in Suffolk.
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