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Warehouse - Port Fairy & Rosebrook Flour Mill / Cheese & Butter Factory

Other Names Port Fairy Aquarium ,  Steam Packet Wharf/ warehouse Location 37 Gipps Street,, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B0859 File Number B0859 Level Local

[1/3] B0859 Warehouse (later Port [2/3] B0859 Warehouse Port Fairy [3/3] B0859 Warehouse Gipps St Port

Statement of Significance

This building comprises the remains of the quite extensive wharf warehouses constructed by Belfast & Koroit Steam Navigation Company on the banks of the River Moyne. The stone building housing the aquarium was built c.1849 for Alison & Knight flour millers & prominent businessmen and landowners in the early years of Port Fairy. In 1868, it was absorbed into Captain Lewis Grant's 'Steam Packet Wharf'. The office section fronting Gipps Street was built for Grant in 1869 and the stone wall along Gipps Street was built for him in 1885 by John Hooper, stonemason, believed to have been the first occupant of 'Motts Cottage'.
The surviving stone building comprises a miscellany of stone buildings of both one and two storeys running between Gipps Street and the river. Various, quite drastic unsympathetic alterations have been made to the building, but much of the original form is still evident.
Classified: 18/08/1977
Part of Port Fairy Historic Area. Classified: 02/03/1981.