Tully

46 Bryant Street
Tully QLD 4854

Tully Courthouse is a modest, masonry building with discrete timber verandahs and contributes a civic presence to the town’s streetscape. The low-set building was constructed in 1945 and is important for its association with law and order and the dispensing of justice in Tully.

As part of a reserve of police and law enforcement buildings, the courthouse demonstrates Tully’s early civic history. The building is important for its association with the development of Tully as a commercial and official centre for the surrounding farming district.

The courthouse was designed in 1941 during a period when Tully and other Queensland sugar towns were experiencing a development boom. Chinese banana farmers had been clearing and farming along the Tully River from the early 20th century but settlement in the vicinity of the township of Tully began in 1906 when James Savage selected land on Banyan Creek.