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was built on the site in 1887, the
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A basement cellar extends underneath the whole of the ground floor of the original wing up to the retaining wall against the footpath. The rear kitchen wing supported on concrete stumps contains a kitchen, store-room, dining room, two bathrooms and a toilet. External walls are of asbestos cement
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roof and basement cellar. It is constructed with the front wall against the road alignment. At the rear is an attached single-storey timber frame kitchen wing with a floor level approximately 300 millimetres (12 in) below the floor level of the original front wing. The site has been further
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Campbell family, the first free settlers to arrive in Ipswich after 1842, and with an early senior police
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bought the property in 1942. The house was used as a girls' hostel and a fibro-and-timber army building was moved to the site as a meeting hall. They named the property the Mary
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The original wing's upper floor has a narrow transverse hallway entered from the stairway top landing. This level has five small bedrooms and a toilet. All of the upper level partition walls are of 300-millimetre (12 in) wide vertical beaded
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Liberty Hall is a two-storey rendered brick house with a cellar, built between 1857 and 1860 for Chief
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Although its roofline has been altered, it retains much of its original symmetrical form and is valued by the community for its aesthetic contribution to the streetscape of central
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The house was bought by Hugh's three sons under nomination of trustees in 1910. The smithy closed down in 1916 and Hugh died in 1917 but the house remained in the family until 1942. The
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