The builder who is building the walls under our house reckons that our house could be as old as 140 years, built around the 1870s. I had started to pursue the age of my house a bit more last week while looking around the Townsville City Council Web-Site.

As I stated in the previous article after looking at the City Council site a bit I started to think that maybe our house was a bit older than the original 1930s estimate that a previous builder had estimated. Our current builder based his estimates on the structure of the original joists and floor boards. Considering our luck with the previous builder, I would probably put a lot more weight on this new builders estimate.

This builder also thinks that the house was originally a Minors Cottage from Charters Towers that was moved to Townsville around the turn of the 20th century.

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For a long time I have assumed that our house is from the 1930’s. I have thought this because one builder told us that is when he thought it was from.

I was looking around the Townsville City Council web-site to try to find specifications and examples of deck roofs and I came across a page about “Tracing the History of Your Townsville House“.

From reading their description of common Townsville house styles it would appear as though our house more closely resembles a house from late 1860s – 1910s, like the image on the left.

That would make our house at a lot older than we thought, and closer to the age of our neighbour’s house, who said their house was from about that era.

To complicate things even more a lot of houses during that era were transported from the mining towns, like Charters Towers, to Townsville. Someone else had told us that it looked like our house had been transported from Charters Towers, but at the moment I don’t really know…

And I am excited!

Construction should finally start tomorrow on the framing under our house. The chalk marks are for the frames that should be completed by the end of this week, not from my extremely creative son this time.

Over the following two weeks they will be adding the exterior cladding and basic plumbing and electrical. We are going to try to get all the electrical wires run, and all the pipes run for the plumbing, but because we are not sheeting inside at the moment we won’t be able to finish anything off at this point.

I took a photo of some of the chalk marks to include in this post, but I can’t find my card reader or the cable for my camera right now. So the photos will have to wait…

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