Brisbane City Council has rejected plans to demolish a music building and subdivide the block of the heritage-listed Goldicott House in Brisbane West.

On Tuesday, the council’s City Planning Committee unanimously rejected plans Goldicott House Pty Ltd submitted in February to subdivide the one-hectare block at Grove Crescent, Toowong.

Goldicott House is more than 130 years old. Credit:Queensland State Government Heritage Register Branch

It had been proposed to subdivide the land into two freehold lots with one to accommodate the existing heritage building Goldicott House and gardens while there was no immediate proposal put forward for the second lot.

To achieve the subdivision it had been proposed to demolish a weatherboard building known as the music room, where, a council officer said, former Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning learnt his craft.