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The decaying, heritage-listed Lamb House has been boarded up ahead of an increasingly likely council auction to recover unpaid rates.
The 119-year-old mansion, which overlooks Brisbaneâs CBD from atop the Kangaroo Point cliffs, will be acquired and sold by Brisbane City Council if $321,000 in outstanding rates are not paid.
A mound of newspapers and magazines litters the garden of Lamb House, which has been boarded up while its fate is determined.
Credit:Tony Moore
At the front of the residence â officially and simply named âHomeâ â is a metre-high mound of newspapers and magazines fused together in a papier-mache mass forged by months or years of rain.
Brisbane mansion Lamb House to be sold by council over unpaid rates after years of uncertainty
TueTuesday 22
DecDecember 2020 at 6:38am
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There has been a breakthrough in the future of the heritage-listed property known as Lamb House, with Brisbane City Council confirming it will take steps to auction it by March.
Key points:
Brisbane City Council has been chasing the owner for three years worth of unpaid rates for months
The deadline for payment passed on December 16