Rodway, Toowoomba
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Residence and gardens, 2014
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| Location | 2 South Street, Rangeville, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°35′03″S 151°59′20″E / 27.5842°S 151.9888°ECoordinates: 27°35′03″S 151°59′20″E / 27.5842°S 151.9888°E |
| Design period | 1900 - 1914 (early 20th century) |
| Built | c. 1904 - 1930s |
| Architect | Harry Marks |
| Official name: Rodway, Sylvia Park | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600868 |
| Significant period | 1900s-1930s (fabric) 1900s (historical) |
| Significant components | tank stand, residential accommodation - main house, service wing, driveway, garden/grounds, gate - entrance, garage, views from, drain/channel/ditch - irrigation, basement / sub-floor, garden edging/balustrades/planter boxes, trees/plantings, tennis court site, lead light/s |
 Location of Rodway residence, Toowoomba in Queensland
Location of Rodway residence, Toowoomba in Queensland
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Rodway is a heritage-listed villa at 2 South Street, Rangeville, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. The architect was Harry Marks. It was built from c. 1904 to 1930s. It is also known as Sylvia Park. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Rodway is a single storeyed timber house erected c. 1904 for John Long to the design of architect Harry Marks on a 40-acre site on the Toowoomba Range.
The site was acquired by Long, a hotel keeper, in 1896. He had previously commissioned Marks' father, James Marks in 1885 to design the Imperial Hotel in Ruthven Street, which Long operated for a number of years.
In 1910, the property was acquired by grazier, John Oliver Frith and his wife Annie Peek Frith as a town residence. Frith lived in semi-retirement but maintained his Augathella property, Toolmaree Station. Renamed Rodway after his birthplace in Somersetshire in England, the house was described as one of the most picturesque and beautiful homes in the vicinity of the city. A gabled north projecting dining room bay may have been undertaken by Frith, and was certainly in existence by 1919. Interior alterations to the dining room may also have been carried out at this time. It is thought that the kitchen wing was added after 1904.
Members of the Frith family are recorded as living at Rodway until 1940 although it is believed the house was rented and used as a boarding house during the 1930s. About this time new fireplaces were installed in the living and dining rooms as well as a new ceiling in the living room. After the death of Annie Frith in 1952, the property was transferred to PJ Seymour, LH Corser, and Leo and Isabel Lynch. The property was subdivided and later sold, with the Lynches retaining the house on a 5-acre block, later reduced to 4 acres to allow for the provision of new roads.
The property was again subdivided in the mid-1990s, and the land the west of the house beyond the border of camphor laurel trees was removed from the heritage register in 1998.
Rodway is a single-storeyed chamferboard residence with a corrugated iron hipped roof and projecting north gable. The building, located on the Toowoomba Range, is situated on a south sloping site, overlooking the Brisbane Valley to the southeast, with a border of mature camphor laurel trees to the west boundary and Norfolk pines to the north.
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