Windermere, Ascot, Heritage-listed residence in Ascot, Australia.

Windermere is a single-storeyed chamferboard villa with corrugated iron roofs, set back from Sutherland Avenue on a rise above gardens with mature trees. Wide verandahs to the south and east meet at a gazebo with an ogee roof and turned finial. Large faceted bays with tall finials project beyond the roofline, and the front stair rises under a pediment on paired posts to a cedar entrance door with sidelights and fanlights.

Built in 1886 for John Appel and Ruth Sutherland, the property rose on land that pastoralist James Sutherland had acquired decades earlier. Its construction marks the area's development into a prosperous residential neighborhood.

The residence shows how wealthy families in Queensland lived during the 1880s, with timber ceilings, cedar joinery, and decorated fireplaces reflecting their tastes and resources. These features reveal what mattered to households of that era.

Windermere is a private residence at 14 Sutherland Avenue and is not open to the public. The house is set back from the street on a rise, so the front elevation, entrance stair and decorated fence with substantial gateposts can be seen from the footpath. The grounds contain mature bunya pines and a camphor laurel.

The 1920s changes removed the detached kitchen wing and servants' quarters and enclosed the eastern verandah. From 1928 to 1967 the house belonged to Dr Ellis Murphy, physician to the Brisbane General Hospital from 1938 to 1954 and part-time Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland from 1950 to 1954; he was knighted in 1967.