Huge 15-bedroom Melton Hill homestead Duncragan hits market with development potential

4-8 Cleveland Terrace, North Ward A Townsville property with a storied history as a private estate, US General’s residence, child welfare home, nurses quarters and university student acommodation has hit the market – and it comes with 15 bedrooms. Originally built about 1917 for industrialist William Duncan, Duncragan is perched high on Melton Hill at 4-8 Cleveland Terrace and sits on a huge 5430sq m block with city and water views. While dated and needing some TLC, the residence is a described as a “substantial timber homestead with about 15 rooms, two kitchens and two ablution facilities”. The floorplan It is listed with Ray White Commercial Townsville agents Stacie Stockham and Graeme Russell. The residence is not heritage listed, opening up the possibility to restore the existing home or subdivide, landbank or pop in a DA for a residential development. But while the house is not heritage listed, the listing notes that the “boundary dry-stone wall is heritage listed on title”. Duncragan A blog called North Queensland History by author and historian Trisha Fielding notes that Duncragan was described by the Townsville Bulletin as: “one of the most commodious residential buildings ...