The Queensland Club is a heritage-listed club house at 19 George Street, Brisbane City.
It was designed by FDG Stanley and built from 1882 to 1888 by J Smith & Sons.
It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The building was opened in June 1884 and contained 41 members’ bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a clubroom, dining room, billiard room, smoking room, visitors room, offices and the necessary kitchens, servants rooms and toilets, providing a “home away from home” for society’s male elite.
The Club, located diagonally opposite Parliament House, is a three-storey rendered brick building incorporating Italianate elements.
The building is a broad ‘H’-shape in plan form, with its long elevation to Alice Street and one side to George Street.
The main entry is in the central part of the building beneath a deep porch.
There are verandahs on two levels across the front and down the side of each wing.
These are supported by Tuscan columns on the ground floor and slender Corinthian cast iron columns on the first floor.
The balustrades on both levels are of decorative cast ironwork. At the end of each wing is a projecting bay window on the ground and first floor level with open balustrade above.
Quoins punctuate the corners of the building and there are banded piers on either side of the entry.
Above the third level the building has an open parapet and large ornate urns at the corner of each wing.
A classical pediment topped by a finial is located above the entry.
The main entry has a large semi-circular fan-light.
On the ground floor the windows are double hung sashes and on the first floor French-lights.
The grounds contain mature trees and tennis court.
The spacious entrance hall has a staircase with cast iron balustrading.
The ground floor contains large and lofty reception rooms and a dining room in the northern wing.
The joinery is of cedar with restrained plasterwork mostly original.
The upper floors contain guest rooms.
Both street frontages are fenced with a low rendered masonry retaining wall with square piers and cast iron balustrade infill.
The Alice Street main entrance features an ogee shaped cast iron arch with a central light fitting and swing gates.
A section of the George Street carpark is bounded by a wire fence and a large fig tree is located in the Alice and George Street corner garden.
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