No building application seems to exist for the original erection of the property, but in January 1927 The Herald & Weekly Times applied to convert the existing stables on the site to motor garages. The application states that the property was purchased from Griffiths Bros., tea merchants, in March 1926, and that the stables on the site were erected for Griffiths approximately ten years previously. The stables accommodated 29 horses on the ground floor (Agnes Street level), and there was room for vehicles on the first floor (Jolimont Lane level), with all necessary feed rooms etc. There was a cottage adjoining on the Jolimont Lane frontage which was used for a stableman. The application sought to demolish the cottage and to extend the stables along the full frontage of Jolimont Lane. The stables already took up the full frontage of the Agnes Street frontage. The Herald & Weekly Times proposed to use the building as a "private motor garage for the storage of the company's own cars on both floors". An application in May 1927 sought to use the building for trucks and to install petrol bowsers. To make the alterations The Herald & Weekly Times employed H.W. & F.B. Tompkins. This firm may have been responsible for the original building as Griffiths had used them in 1920 to make alterations and additions to a house at the same address, possibly the cottage. The plans included new windows to Agnes Street and the first floor of Jolimont Lane which were to be "similar in every respect to the existing windows, with glazing complete to match". Large sliding entrance doors with runners to replace existing doors on both frontages. Concrete floors to replace the wooden ones. The building was converted to offices in 1988 and given the name Marlion House.