Rainworth House, Bardon, Heritage residence in Bardon, Australia

Rainworth House at 7 Barton Street is a vernacular timber house with a steeply pitched short-ridge roof and straight-roofed verandahs on three sides. Its front elevation has three pairs of French doors, plus one on the left side, and small casement windows with wooden knobs above the doors for ventilation. Most exterior walls are twelve-inch chamfer-boards, while interior walls and high ceilings are lined with beaded tongue-and-groove boards.

Augustus Charles Gregory, explorer and Queensland's surveyor-general from 1859 to 1879, reputedly built Rainworth House himself around 1862 and lived there until his death in 1905. Merchant and politician Robert Philp later rented the property, as did the owners who followed. Subdivision of Gregory's country estate forced the house to be shifted to a more accommodating position, and in 1949 Frederick and Mildred Howell rented it and later bought it; their descendants still occupy it.

The house gives its name to the former suburb of Rainworth, now a locality within Bardon. Gregory's standing is also recalled in Gregory Street, Toowong, and Gregory Park, Milton. The interior walls and high ceilings are lined horizontally with beaded tongue-and-groove boards.

Rainworth House stands at 7 Barton Street, Bardon, in Brisbane's inner north-west, and is a private home whose descendants still occupy it, so visits are limited to viewing the exterior from the public street. The house was shifted from its original position when Gregory's country estate was subdivided, so its present siting on Barton Street is not the 1862 one.

The original estate subdivision influenced nearby street names, with Gregory Street and Gregory Park both named after the property's famous resident. These local names show how the resident shaped the neighborhood's growth.