Aberfoyle, Warwick, Heritage residence in Warwick, Australia.
Aberfoyle is a single-storeyed chamferboard residence at 35 Wood Street, Warwick, with a corrugated iron hipped roof, timber stumps and a bullnosed verandah wrapping the south, southeast and southwest sides. The symmetrical Wood Street entry has a central timber stair, a gable above and five-sided corner bays flanking it. The roof carries timber eave brackets, a central ventilator, and gables with timber finials and diagonal boarding over pressed sheeting.
Aberfoyle was built in 1910 for dentist Peter Alexander Affleck to a design by Warwick architect Hugh Hamilton Campbell, at a cost of £948, by contractor Ludwig August Tessman. The land had passed through the Affleck family since Peter Affleck senior acquired it in 1882. A breakfast room was added to the northern end between 1918 and 1927, and the house was sold to William Tindal Scrymgeour in January 1927.
The residence displays early 20th-century domestic tastes through pressed metal ceilings and decorative leadlight windows that shaped how people lived at that time. These ornamental details shape the interior character and reveal what mattered to residents of that era.
Aberfoyle is a private residence at 35 Wood Street, on the corner of Albion Street (the Cunningham Highway), so it is viewed from the street rather than entered. The symmetrical Wood Street front has a central timber stair to the verandah, flanked by projecting five-sided corner bays. The owners who bought the house in 1993 have restored the entrance pathway from Wood Street.
The bathroom was lined with lead on the floor and clad to dado height in small-gauge corrugated iron sheets, with a sunken bath set into it. Local painter Donald Crawford finished the painting and Mr E Morrison did the plumbing. The house cost £948 to build in 1910.
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