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Windermere is a heritage-listed villa at 14 Sutherland Avenue, Ascot, Queensland, Australia. It was built from to 1930s. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. == History == Windermere was built on land first alienated in 1855 by pastoralist James Sutherland. Sutherland owned many acres in the Toombul parish and land in the city. He worshipped at the Fortitude Valley Wesleyan Methodist Church to which he left an annual legacy when he died in 1875. Sutherland appears to have built a three bedroom dwelling on the site called "Hillside House". The house was rented in the late 1870s and in the early 1880s surveyor Henry St John Wood's address was Windermere. On Wood's taking up the position of government surveyor at Maryborough in 1885 the house became vacant.〔 It is believed that Windermere was demolished and a new house was built for Sutherland's daughter Ruth and her husband solicitor John George Appel on the site c 1886. The house may have been designed by architect Richard Gailey, although this remains unsubstantiated.〔 John Appel married Ruth Sutherland in 1879, and shortly afterwards was admitted as a solicitor. He retired from practice around ten years later to become a pastoralist and politician. He was a member of the Hamilton Shire Council in 1890-1908, and was chairman twice: after Hamilton became a municipality he was twice mayor. Appel had farming interests in the Nerang area, and in 1902 he also became a member for six years of the Nerang Shire Council. Appel entered the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the member for Albert in 1908, and joined the ministry as secretary for mines and public works, finding his true metier as home secretary in 1909, retaining this portfolio until 1915.〔 Windermere was owned by Charles Frederick White for five years from 1918, during which time it was rented. In 1923 it was the house was bought by George Kermode Jeffrey and his wife Lillian. During the 1920s the detached kitchen wing and servants quarters were demolished, and the eastern verandah enclosed.〔 From 1928 until 1967 the property was owned and inhabited by Dr Ellis Murphy and his wife Mary (daughter of Thomas Charles Beirne). Dr Ellis was a physician to the Brisbane General Hospital from 1938 to 1954, and part-time Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland from 1950-54. He was knighted in 1967.〔 In 1967 Windermere was purchased by Barbara and Trevor Cottee. In 1984 it was bought by Robert Geoffrey Bentley and his wife, and again sold in 1986 to Peter Maloney and wife. During the 1980s, the house underwent substantial modifications which included the reconstruction of the front stairs, the addition of a bathroom and study in the northern section of the house, the demolition of the rear laundry and bathroom, works to the rear of the house, and the re-decking of the front verandah. In 1994 the residence was bought by T & D Weeks, and extensive reburbishment of the gardens, rear wings, front verandah and interior was undertaken.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Windermere, Ascot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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