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OFF KERFERD ROAD AND BEACONSFIELD PARADE ALBERT PARK, PORT PHILLIP CITY
VHR H1534The Kerferd Road Pier, Albert Park, is a timber construction built between 1887 and 1889 to a design by the Public Works Department. It is a wide jetty formed of timber pylons supporting…
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FLINDERS FORESHORE FLINDERS, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE
VHR H0906The former Jetty Cargo Shed (c. 1871) at Flinders is of architectural, historic, social and scientific importance as: * one of a small number of bow roof structures remaining in Victoria…
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THE HUMMOCKS LAKES ENTRANCE AND THE ENTRANCE NYERIMILANG, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H1532 H8422-0001The New Works historic complex at Lakes Entrance marks the site of a major nineteenth century engineering achievement in Victoria. The unreliable natural entrance from the sea to the…
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650 POINT NEPEAN ROAD MCCRAE, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE
VHR H1516The Eastern Shore Light has served an integral part of the Port Phillip Bay navigation system since the 1850s. A timber light was built at McCrae in 1854. It was later transported to Arthur's…
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1-9 BATMAN AVENUE MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0646The Princes Walk Vaults were constructed for the City of Melbourne in 1889/90 by AW Mckenzie. The vaults are part of the major works involved in the construction of the new Princes Bridge.…
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MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY BOAT CLUB SHED
BOATHOUSE DRIVE MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0682The Melbourne University Boat Club Shed is a two-storey weatherboard building designed by A S Eggleston and opened in 1908, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the forming of the…
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PAYNESVILLE SLIPWAY, 60-74 SLIP ROAD PAYNESVILLE, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H1648The Slip at Paynesville was constructed in 1887 by a Dane called Erickson and was later purchased, at some time prior to 1914, by a Scot named Peter Tierney who used the facility for ship…
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PORT PHILLIP BAY, UNINCORPORATED
VHR H1519The South Channel Pile Light was built between 1872 and 1874 to a design by the Public Works Department; the contract was let to Robert McColl. It was installed as a navigational aid for…
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PORT PHILLIP BAY, UNINCORPORATED
VHR H1518The West Channel Pile Light was built in 1881 to a design by the Public Works Department. The building contractor was Robert Thornton. It is constructed of red gum with a concrete platform.…
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83-89 MERRI STREET WARRNAMBOOL, WARRNAMBOOL CITY
VHR H1520The Lady Bay Lighthouse Complex was originally built in 1858-9 of basalt quarried on the Salt Water (Maribyrnong) River, Melbourne. The upper tower, chartroom, cottage and privy were…
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2 SIMPSON STREET WARRNAMBOOL, WARRNAMBOOL CITY
VHR H0620Proudfoot's Boathouse on the Hopkins River near Warrnambool is an outstanding example of a late-19th century boathouse complex with associated residence and jetties. Thomas Proudfoot first…
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6-18 BATTERY ROAD WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY
VHR H1649Williamstown was the first deep-water port for Melbourne, with ships anchoring off shore in the shelter of Point Gellibrand. A broad swathe of Point Gellibrand was set aside in 1837 as a…
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WILLIAMSTOWN DOCKYARD 2-10 NELSON PLACE WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY
VHR H0697The Alfred Graving Dock in the Williamstown Dockyard. History Summary The Alfred Graving Dock was constructed by contractors for the Victorian Government between 1864 and 1873 at a total…
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WARRNAMBOOL BREAKWATER, VIADUCT AND HARBOUR
BREAKWATER ROAD WARRNAMBOOL, WARRNAMBOOL CITY
VHR H2124The Warrnambool Breakwater was designed by the eminent British harbour engineer Sir John Coode in 1879 and constructed between 1884 and 1890. Warrnambool was the centre of a prosperous…
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60-62 GELLIBRAND STREET QUEENSCLIFF, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH
VHR H1618By 1850 all of the Port Phillip Bay pilots were instructed to reside either in Williamstown or at Shortland's Bluff. After the first land sales at Queenscliff, the land prices were seen to be…
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42 MERCER STREET QUEENSCLIFF, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH
VHR H1148Roseville, constructed in 1863-64, was built for navigational pilot, Hugh Williams. The house is basically a single storeyed stuccoed stone residence with an attached octagonal observation…
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POINT LONSDALE MARITIME AND DEFENCE PRECINCT
2 POINT LONSDALE ROAD POINT LONSDALE, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH
VHR H1517The Point Lonsdale Maritime and Defence Precinct including all buildings, structures, objects, ruins and archaeological features and deposits related to the location's strategic role in…
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1140 LIGHTHOUSE ROAD CAPE OTWAY, COLAC OTWAY SHIRE
VHR H1222The Cape Otway Lightstation was constructed in 1846-48 following the recommendation of the 1845 New South Wales Select Committee on Lighthouses in response to a number of shipping disasters…
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GABO ISLAND, UNINCORPORATED
VHR H1843The original decision to construct a lighthouse on Gabo Island flowed from discussions between Governors Gipps of New South Wales and Franklin of Van Diemen's Land in 1841 concerning the…
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1-27 SOUTH WHARF PROMENADE SOUTH WHARF, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H1096Duke and Orr's Dry Dock is a large timber lined dock which currently houses the historic barque Polly Woodside. It was built in 1875 and was largely reconstructed in 1901 with a new pump…
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QUEENSCLIFF PIER AND LIFEBOAT COMPLEX
SYMONDS STREET QUEENSCLIFF, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH
VHR H1515Queenscliff Pier was built between 1884 and 1889, a shelter shed in 1886-87and a new lifeboat shed between 1926 and 1929 to house the newly-arrived lifeboat Queenscliffe. The first jetty at…
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GRIFFITHS ISLAND PORT FAIRY, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H1659Griffiths Island, Port Fairy, is an unusual geological landform, consisting of an isolated basalt outcrop, overlain with calcareous sand, and partly bounded by possible collapsed lava…
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3 GRIFFITHS STREET PORT FAIRY, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H1431The Port Fairy lifeboat was built at Williamstown in 1857. The design and construction is possibly by William White, an emigrant member of the well-known family of Cowes boat-builders. The…
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BEACH STREET PORT MELBOURNE, PORT PHILLIP CITY
VHR H0981Construction between 1912 and 1915, Princes Pier is of architectural and historic significance as a largely intact, rare surviving waterfront complex of structures dating from the early…
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HARBOUR ESPLANADE AND VICTORIA HARBOUR PROMENADE AND NORTH WHARF ROAD AND DOCKLANDS DRIVE AND NEWQUAY PROMENADE DOCKLANDS, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H1720Victoria Dock is a 37.6 hectare (96 acre) water basin constructed between 1887 and 1892 to accommodate large ships of the time. Designed by the British engineer, Sir John Coode and modified…
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