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Former Port Fairy Customs Shed - Port Fairy Historic Area

Other Name Bait Shed, Fisherman's Shed, Fisherman's Co-Operative Location 31 Gipps Street,, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B6504 File Number B6504 Level State

[1/1] B6504 Customs Shed

Statement of Significance

The Customs Shed at Port Fairy, a timber pile and slab shed with a galvanised iron roof over bowstring trusses, is of state significance as an early, and now rare, example of a once common, nineteenth century industrial building type. It is also of state significance as the oldest building in Port Fairy associated with the fishing industry. It has been in virtually continuous use for approximately 130 years; firstly, as a Customs and Wharf good shed; secondly, as a wharf shed; thirdly as a combination of wharf shed and fishermen's shed, and for at least the last 100 years as a fishermen's shed. It with the Port Fairy Lifeboat Shed and the original bluestone Steam Packet Wharf building are the three last remnants of the original port of Port Fairy which during the period 1850-1870 was an important and very busy Victorian shipping port.
Classified: 18/05/1994

Part of Port Fairy Historic Area, Classified: 02/03/1981.