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CAMP HILL HOUSE BY TWOHILL & JAMES

Camp Hill House began as a modest interwar cottage located in Camp Hill, six kilometres south-east of the centre of Brisbane. The existing dwelling had a typical closely packed floor plan: living space to the south, flanked by bedrooms and a sleep-out to the north. Despite occupying a large block, the cottage had little direct connection to the outdoors, except for a small verandah on the south-west corner and a run of stairs from the rear of the house down to the backyard.

The clients, a couple with two children, had purchased the cottage as

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