ANZ Bank

General

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Also known as

Trustees Chambers

Classification

State Heritage

Register status

Entered

Date entered

21 October 1992

Type

Retail, wholesale, services: Shopping centre

Themes

3.7 Developing secondary and tertiary industries: Financing

3.8 Developing secondary and tertiary industries: Marketing, retailing and service industries

Architect

Addison & Corrie

Builder

Taylor, Walter

Construction period

1900, ANZ Bank (1900c - 1900c)

Historical period

1900–1914 Early 20th century

Style

Classicism

Location

Address

43 Queen Street, Brisbane City

LGA

Brisbane City Council

Coordinates

-27.47092798, 153.02411858

Significance

Criterion AThe place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland’s history.

The ANZ Bank demonstrates the principal characteristics of a late Victorian commercial building and is important in exhibiting aesthetic characteristics valued by the community, in particular, the arcaded first floor and the buildings' contribution to the streetscape of Queen Street as one of a group of surviving 19th and 20th century buildings and facades.

Criterion DThe place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.

The ANZ Bank demonstrates the principal characteristics of a late Victorian commercial building and is important in exhibiting aesthetic characteristics valued by the community, in particular, the arcaded first floor and the buildings' contribution to the streetscape of Queen Street as one of a group of surviving 19th and 20th century buildings and facades.

Criterion EThe place is important because of its aesthetic significance.

The ANZ Bank demonstrates the principal characteristics of a late Victorian commercial building and is important in exhibiting aesthetic characteristics valued by the community, in particular, the arcaded first floor and the buildings' contribution to the streetscape of Queen Street as one of a group of surviving 19th and 20th century buildings and facades.

History

This building was constructed c. 1900. The site was purchased by the Bank of New South Wales in 1853. In 1866 the Bank erected premises on the corner of Queen and George Streets across part of both allotments, and the remainder of the site became a garden associated with the bank residence.

In February 1899 the Bank decided to construct a building on the vacant land and engaged architects Addison and Corrie to design a two storeyed commercial building. Walter Taylor was the contractor, and the building containing offices and shops was completed in late 1900 at a cost of £6,737.

The basement and ground floor were leased to Queensland Trustees Limited, while the upper floors was leased to several legal firms. Queensland Trustees moved to other premises in 1913, but the building remained known as Trustee Chambers.

Alterations to Trustees Chambers were made in late 1933. In November 1935 Trustees Chambers was sold to HA Manahan & Sons Proprietary Limited, chain store grocers. In 1957 the Prudential Assurance Company Limited purchased the building and leased it to the Australia and New Zealand Bank Ltd. In 1985 ANZ Properties (Australia) Limited became the registered proprietors.

Description

The ANZ bank is a two-storeyed brick building, with rendered decoration, located beside the Westpac Building at the southern end of the Myer Centre in Queen Street.

The classical main facade, has an arcaded verandah at the first floor level. The verandah has three arched openings and at each end are square headed window openings. Square pilasters with florid capitals are situated to each side of these windows and at each end of the arcade which has matching engaged columns to each side of every arch. The originally unrendered brickwork on the first floor has been painted.

The shopfronts at street level are modern in materials and design.

At the rear the building takes on a domestic scale with separate hipped roofs, a chimney, and a timber verandah at first floor level which extends around to the original toilets, which are located in a narrow wing are the rear of the building.

Internally the building has some intact portions. In a front section of the basement the vaulted underside of the slab above supported on cast iron columns is clearly visible. This has three vaults supported on two rows of columns extending five bays back from the front of the building. A pair of double-hung sash windows exist at the side to the rear of the building behind the neighbouring Westpac Building.

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