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DWELLING

Location

8 GLENELG STREET PORTLAND, GLENELG SHIRE

File Number

601349

Level

Registered

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DWELLING SOHE 2008
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1 dwelling 8 glenelg street

Statement of Significance

This cottage at No.8 Glenelg Street, Portland is one of the oldest surviving buildings in what is Victoria's oldest settlement (1834). The building is a double fronted timber cottage and is shown on town maps dating from 1853, although it is almost certainly older than this. The land was sold to William Douglas, a pioneer Portland businessman and settler in 1840. The cottage is constructed as a timber balloon frame with its Tasmanian-style wide-sawn weatherboard cladding and timber shingles under a corrugated iron roof which is a later addition. The weatherboards on the main cottage structure are original.

No.8 Glenelg Street, Portland is of architectural and historic importance for the following reasons:

- as one of the oldest surviving structures in Portland, generally regarded as the first permanent European settlement in what became Victoria (1834).

-as a primitive weatherboard cottage of the pre-gold rush era which is believed to have been built on land purchased at the auctions of October 1840 by William Douglas, a pioneer Portland settler and businessman.

- its architectural features of wide-sawn weatherboard cladding, timber shingle roof and continuous roof and verandah roof line which are characteristic of the early structures of this important early town.

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