About this walk
Teneriffe was once the wool capital of Australia. Between the 1900s and 1970s, enormous warehouse buildings lined the river, storing and sorting wool from across Queensland and New South Wales before it was shipped to London. Today, those same buildings house apartments, restaurants, and creative studios — but their industrial bones are still on full display.
This walk is designed to start at your front door and loop through the precinct in under 45 minutes. Take it slowly, look up, and read the buildings as you would a museum.
The stops
The Australian Estates Building
0 minYour walk begins before you even leave the building.
Built in stages between 1926 and 1937, this landmark woolstore was one of the last and largest in the Teneriffe precinct. It processed wool from across Queensland before the trade moved offshore.
Look for:
The saw-tooth roofline, massive timber columns, and red-brick facade — classic features of Australian wool-store architecture.
Mactaggart's Woolstore
2 minHead toward the river along Macquarie Street.
Originally built in the 1920s for Mactaggart, a major wool-broking firm, this building is a fine example of the Federation Warehouse style adapted for the wool trade.
Look for:
The fine brickwork, large timber windows, and the way the building steps down toward the river — designed for loading wool directly onto barges.
Goldsbrough Mort Woolstore
5 minContinue toward the riverfront.
Goldsbrough Mort was one of Australia's most powerful wool-broking companies. Their Teneriffe store, completed in the 1930s, was part of a national network that helped set wool prices on the London market.
Look for:
The restrained Art Deco detailing and the sheer scale of the facade — imagine it filled with wool bales during the busy auction season.
Teneriffe Ferry Terminal & Riverwalk
8 minWalk along the riverfront toward the ferry terminal.
The river is the reason the woolstores are here. Before modern roads, wool arrived by rail and left by river barge. The wharves and cargo sheds made Teneriffe one of Australia's busiest wool ports.
Look for:
Old wharf fittings, the wide river bend, and views back toward the woolstore rooftops. The CityCat now follows the same route wool barges once did.
The Woolstores Precinct Skyring Terrace
12 minLoop back through the heart of the precinct.
By the 1980s the wool trade had collapsed and the warehouses stood empty. In the 1990s and 2000s they were converted into apartments, offices, and restaurants — one of Brisbane's most successful industrial-adaptive reuse projects.
Look for:
Original loading bays, exposed brick arches, and timber beams now framing cafes and homes. The buildings still wear their industrial past.
Newstead House & Teneriffe Park
18 minA slightly longer stroll for history lovers.
Newstead House is Brisbane's oldest surviving residence, built in 1846. Below it, Teneriffe Park occupies the old quarry site that supplied stone for much of early Brisbane.
Look for:
Views of the river and city from the park, plus the heritage-listed Newstead House gardens — a quiet end to a walk through Teneriffe's working past.
Why the woolstores matter
The Teneriffe Woolstores are not just attractive old buildings. They represent the wealth generated by Australia's wool industry in the twentieth century, the engineering skill required to store and move millions of bales, and the vision that turned a declining industrial area into one of Brisbane's most desirable neighbourhoods.
For guests at Green Haven, the woolstores are the neighbourhood's defining character. The quiet courtyard, the converted warehouses, and the riverfront setting all feel connected to that history.