This large timber residence was constructed in at least two stages, with the flamboyant early 1910s extensions constructed for Rosewood storekeeper Thomas Ernest Bulcock and his wife Edith Mary Bourke, who were married in June 1910.
TE Bulcock was the son of seed and produce merchant and former Queensland parliamentarian, Robert Bulcock, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Enoggera 1885-88 and Member of the Queensland Legislative Council 1894-1900.