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COTTAGE

Other Name NORINA Location 66 CAMPBELL STREET PORT FAIRY, MOYNE SHIRE File Number 602675 Level Registered

[1/3] COTTAGE SOHE 2008 [2/3] COTTAGE SOHE 2008 [3/3] 1 cottage 66 campbell street

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Norina is located on the southern side of the street grid of Port Fairy and faces the dunes of the South Beach. Mark Tucker, carpenter built the single storey, four-roomed cottage at 66 Campbell Street, Port Fairy, now called Norina at least by 1857. It has a distinctive bay window (formerly with a ventilating pane and possibly intended for the display of goods) and a small dormer window. The cottage is built of coursed limestone with bluestone quoins and has decorative timber detailing at the eaves line and bargeboards. It has the typical form of a cross gable and skillion. In 1896, the cottage was sold to Emily Mandeville, the first owner's daughter and widow of the chemist and Town Clerk, Frederick Mandeville. Later, a local fisherman, William 'Ginger' or 'Meg' Denny and his family owned the house for nearly seventy years. A bull-nosed timber verandah, added after 1900 with a glazed sleep-out used by Ginger, was removed in 1975. The cottage retains a high degree of integrity from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century periods, but with no original decoration. It remains in good condition. From the 1970s, Norina has been used as a holiday cottage.