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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Captain Baird's Surgery - Port Fairy - Historic Area Apothecary's Hall , Tucker & White Undertakers 51 Cox Street, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B1487	This building was originally built about 1860 for Mark Tucker and Robert White, undertakers and cabinet makers. The wide opening in the front was originally used for housing the hearse. With economic downturn, the building was leased to Dr. William Loftus for use as consulting rooms. The stone building became the home and surgery of Captain John Baird, the garrison doctor in 1876 and was also used as a dispensary. After Dr Baird's death in 1891, Mark Tucker's wife, Thirza, ... more	B1487	Local
Former Lifeboat Station - Port Fairy - Historic Area 3 Griffith Street,, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B5005	The Port Fairy lifeboat station has outstanding historic and demonstrative significance. It is a rare and remarkably intact reminder of the important role local oared lifeboats, with volunteer crews, played in the days of hazardous, sail-powered coastal shipping. It has a strong historic association with the economic importance of coastal shipping to Port Fairy (and other regional ports) in the 19th century, before this trade was largely destroyed by the spread of railways. ... more	B5005	State
Former Royal Merrijig Inn - Port Fairy - Historic Area Merrijig Inn 1 Campbell Street,, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B764	The Merrijig Inn was constructed in 1844 and was de-licensed in 1852 and subsequently purchased by the government for police offices. Courts sat there until 1860 and it also housed the officers of the Belfast District Road Board (from 1853) and the municipality of Belfast (from 1856-58). The two-storied section in Campbell Street was demolished c.1900 and the material was used to build shops at 62-64 Sackville Street. The Merrijig Inn is one of the oldest surviving ... more	B0764	State
Mills' House - Port Fairy - Historic Area Captain John Mills' Cottage 40 - 42 Gipps Street, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B1633	A well preserved timber cottage with open work cast iron verandah posts and elevated blue stone wall; reported to have been built by Captain John Mill, a Launceston whaler who sailed in Victorian waters from the 1820s and became harbour master at Port Fairy 1853. Mills' Cottage was erected most probably in three stages on land within James Atkinson's Special Survey and leased from him by Charles Mills and subsequently purchased by John Mills. The centre weatherboard section ... more	B1633	State
Girteen - Port Fairy - Historic Area Gurteen 113 Griffith Street, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B3220	A small pleasantly proportioned stone cottage of the 1850s. Recent additions noted. Girteen is a modest limestone cottage erected in 1855, possibly for Hooper, a local stonemason. The weatherboard skillion was added in the 1920s. The cottage is single-storied and stuccoed and symmetrically arranged with a central doorway and windows to either side, all the openings being framed by architraves. The chimneys are features as are the quoins. This modest cottage is typical ... more	B3220	Local
Former Methodist Church - Port Fairy - Historic Area Uniting Church , Weslyan Church 44 James Street,, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B0337	The foundation stone of the Methodist Church was laid in 1855 by William Witton, a famous itinerant preacher of the Western District in the 1840s. Walter McGill, a local sculptor, executed the elaborate ornamental carvings to the facade and entrance portal. The rectangular bluestone structure is characterised by the elaborate and finely carved stone masonry of its principal facade and porch added later. Stone work to the main facade, with its round-headed windows, wreaths, ... more	B0337	State
Common School - Port Fairy - Historic Area 44 - 46 James Street, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B1485	This substantial bluestone building with its fourteen Gothic windows was completed in July 1870 as a school room in the Wesleyan Church ground. The building was designed by James Scott who also superintended the works. See also File Number B0337 Uniting Church. Classified: 15/08/1963 Part of Port Fairy Historic Area. 2010 Note: Hall in good condition.	B1485	Local
Star Of The West Hotel- Port Fairy - Historic Area 76 Sackville Street and Cnr Bank Street,, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B0336	This substantial two storey stone structure was erected in 1856 for John Walwyn Taylor, a West Indian negro and hotel entrepreneur. The colonial Georgian style building originally with a large timber verandah and later replaced with an iron structure, is a utilitarian design of unknown origin. One of the most notable of the many colonial Georgian style buildings in Port Fairy, it was, when completed in 1856, the largest and most commodious hotel in Western Victoria. The ... more	B0336	Local
Oddfellows Hall - Port Fairy - Historic Area Loyal Prince Albert Lodge Of Oddfellows 95 Sackville Street,, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B0339	Hall Classified: 12/05/1958 2010 Note: Converted into dwelling c. 1978 Port Fairy Historic Area Statement of Significance: Port Fairy is a natural harbour where the Moyne River enters the sea, the fourth of Victoria's coastal settlements and now the one with the greatest concentration of pre-Separation buildings. These include numbers of simple double-fronted cottages in the local limestone, imported timber, and some basalt from the nearby flows, The earliest of ... more	B0339	Local
Motts Cottage- Port Fairy - Historic Area Whalers Cottage 5 Sackville Street, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B1626	Old Seaman's cottage plus sympathetic later additions make a pleasant cottage complex. Mott's Cottage comprises buildings from three distinct periods. The origins of the building are unknown, but it is believed that part at least of the building was constructed for local stonemason John Hooper, possibly c.1850. The rear lean-to section was added possibly c.1890 and the date of the present front timber section is unknown. It may pre-date or post-date the stone section. The ... more	B1626	State

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