National Trust Tasmanian Heritage Register 13B - Cygnet, Dover & Franklin

Heritage Listed by the National Trust 1983

This list of heritage is from "The Heritage of Tasmania; The Illustrated Register of the National Estate" (Macmillan, Melbourne 1983)

• Only 9 results listed for Esperance Municipality, 1 for Port Cygnet.
• Note the explosion of Heritage listings after this date: over 160 sites (see detailed list below).

D'Entrecasteaux Channel	Southport Lagoon	Southport Lagoon

Many Aboriginal people once lived in the area, as revealed in the observations of the earliest European expeditioners. While largely unrecorded, Aboriginal sites must still be present in the landscape. These are protected under the Aboriginal Relics Act 1975.
The history of the area is rich:

• the French National Assembly Expedition of 1792 lead by D'Entrecasteaux used this area as a base for the scientific exploration of Recherche, the Huon, Channel, Derwent region and Bruny Island;
• since then human occupation has principally associated with resource extraction including mining, forestry and whaling While little physical evidence remains to mark these early European activities, those that do exist have heritage value at the local, state and even national level.

Walk to Southport Lagoon and George III Lookout

N1. D'Entrecasteaux Watering Place Historic Site, Catamaran, TAS

The crew of the French expedition under the command of Bruni D'Entrecasteaux obtained water from a small creek here in 1793. 

• D'Entrecasteaux Watering Place Historic Site 43°34′S 146°53′E
• Read more about this place above

N2. George III Monument Historic Site, Southport, TAS

Historic early shipwreck in a very scenic area. Flora diverse and some rare species, notably EPACRIS STUARTII.

• The 14.4 hectare historic site is the site of a memorial to the convict ship George III which was wrecked on nearby rocks on its way to Port Arthur in 1835 with the loss of 133 lives. The memorial was erected on this site in 1839.
• On the evening of 12 March 1835 the George III, a convict transportation vessel, enroute from Great Britain to the colony, struck a reef directly offshore from the conservation area. The ship quickly began to break up. Convicts were confined to the hold at gunpoint until the ship’s longboat was launched and taking its first load of occupants to the safety of the nearby shore.
  The resultant loss of life from this shipwreck means it still stands as Tasmania’s third worst maritime accident. None of the ship’s officers lost their lives, nor any soldiers. However 128 convicts, three children, the wife of a soldier and two crew members were drowned.
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• In 1839 a monument, in the form of an inscribed tomb, was placed on Southport Bluff to record the event. The monument still stands and its existence is the chief reason for the proclamation of the surrounding historic site. The main inscription on the tomb reads:
  • Near this place are interred the Remains of Many of the Sufferers who perished by the Wreck of the George the III, convict ship,which Vessel struck on a sunken rock near the Actaeon reef
  • On the night of the 12th April 1835 upon which melancholy occasion 134 human beings were drowned
  • This Tomb is Erected by the desire of His Excellency Colonel GEORGE ARTHUR, Lieut.-Governor
  • to mark that sad event, and is placed on this spot by the Major THOMAS RYAN, 50th Regiment
  • One of the Survivors on this Occasion
• Southport Bluff, where the George III Historic Site and monument are located, is the only known locality for the endangered Tasmanian endemic heath species,Epacris stuartii (Keith 1996).

N3. Exit Cave State Reserve Lune River, TAS

Largest and longest limestone cave in Australia.

• With a length of 23 km, Exit is the longest known cave in Australia, and is noted for its immense chambers, sandy stream bank deposits and impressive glow-worm display. The Exit Cave area is now contained within the Southwest National Park. At this time access is restricted to authorised speleological parties.
• Applications for permits for caves in the south, should be made to the Senior Ranger, 24 Main Rd, Huonville, 7109. Fax (03) 6264 8473

N4. Hastings Caves State Reserve, Lune River, TAS

    
The Hastings Caves State Reserve is the setting of a complex of caves and a natural hot springs located 102 km south of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Newdegate Cave, the largest dolomite cave in Australia open to tourists, is a part of the complex. More at Wikipedia

Hastings Cave map

The Hastings Caves State Reserve offers visitors a variety of experiences, from relaxing in the warm waters of a thermal springs pool, walking in the rich forests of the reserve and, the unique experience of exploring Newdegate Cave. 
Both the thermal pool and the trail which leads through the surrounding forests are accessible to wheelchair users.

Named after Sir Francis Newdegate, the Governor of Tasmania from 1917-1920, Newdegate Cave is the largest tourist cave in Australia which occurs in dolomite, rather than limestone.

Its richly decorated chambers began forming tens of millions of years ago. Don't miss the opportunity to take a tour of the cave with qualified Parks and Wildlife Service guides. 
The Hastings Caves State Reserve forms part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.

N5. Ida Bay State Reserve, Ida Bay Road, Lune River, TAS

The 425 hectare Ida Bay State Reserve is managed for the protection of its historic, recreational and natural values.

• A narrow gauge railway, built around 1920, and extensively upgraded in the 1940s is located within the State reserve. It runs along the southern shore of the Lune River estuary and terminates at Deephole Bay.
• The railway was originally established to transport limestone from Ida Bay quarries to vessels berthed first within the Lune River Estuary, and later at Deephole Bay. The railway has, discontinuously since 1981, been operated under a lease agreement as a tourist attraction. There is access to Southport Lagoon and King George III monument via railway operation.
• Aboriginal middens are present in the reserve. The area is the habitat for plant species with restricted distributions in Tasmania, CAESIA ALPINA (r2) and CALADENIA VULGARIS (r3).

N6. Southport Lagoon Wildlife Sanctuary, Lune River, TAS

Lying approximately 80km south of Hobart the 4,280 hectare Southport Lagoon Conservation Area possesses a wide diversity of significant natural, cultural and recreational values.

• The area combines a rich history with a unique natural heritage. The area is the type locality for a large number of Tasmania’s unique native plants.

Southport Lagoon Wildlife Sanctuary exhibits an unusual complex of forest, heath and sedgeland communities, and is in a relatively undisturbed state.

• The Messmate (EUCALYPTUS OBLIQUA) forests that cover much of the land area of the Sanctuary have representative significance, and are also significant in that they extend to coastal sand dunes and rocky shores. This is highly unusual at the present time, although it was a common phenomenon in the past.
• The heathland communities in the Sanctuary are particularly rich in species which are no longer found in other coastal regions. The Sanctuary provides important waterbird habitat and breeding ground for a large number of bird species, and is the only known location for a Tasmanian endemic heath species, EPACRIS STUARTII, considered vulnerable at both State and national levels.
• The Sanctuary also provides protection for several plant species which have a restricted distribution in Tasmania: WESTRINGIA BREVIFOLIA, exocarpus SYRTICOLA, and CYATHODES ABIETINA. The latter two species are endemic to Tasmania. Southport Lagoon area was the collection site for the 1792 D'Entrecasteaux Expedition, and the area is therefore a botanical, zoological, geological and anthropological type locality for many Tasmanian specimens, and is an important scientific reference area.

N7. Macquarie Island Nature Reserve, Hobart, TAS

    
Macquarie Island Nature Reserve is an area of very high biogeographic significance, being on the Antarctic Convergence, where the ranges of many Antarctic and more northerly species meet. As a result many species, for example the grey backed storm petrel, thin billed prion, rockhopper penguin and kelp gull, are at the northerly or southerly limit of their range. (Criterion A1)

• Macquarie Island is an excellent example of a subantarctic island group with good examples of plant communities and landforms. Like other subantarctic island groups the marine flora and fauna have strong antarctic links and the terrestrial flora has Australian links. The fora and fauna of Macquarie Island is however unique. (Criteria D1 & B1)

The area provides valuable habitat for many species of marine mammals and birds in their important breeding, moulting or immature phases, as well as being home to a number of endemic bird species and an array of endemic invertebrates. Because of the harsh conditions on Macquarie Island, species diversity is low, but abundance is high, indicating the success with which those species have adapted to conditions on the island. (Criteria A2, A3 & B1)

• Macquarie Island is unique in being the best preserved example of oceanic crust above the ocean surface, and, never having been part of a continental landmass, it provides the opportunity for study of the oceanic crust, and long distance dispersal mechanisms and implications. (Criteria A1, B1 & C1)
• The value of Macquarie Island is enhanced by its remote location which has enabled it to retain its biological integrity, and function as a scientific reference point, having been visited by expeditions since the turn of the century, including those of Scott, Shackleton and Mawson, and having been the location of an ANARE Research Station since 1948. (Criteria H1, C1 & B1)

N8. Hartz Mountains National Park, Geeveston, TAS

  

Hartz Mountains National Park is a window into the south-west wilderness, offering views of remote mountain ranges as far as the southern coast.

• Hartz Mountains National Park is located in the south of Tasmania, Australia. It is one of 19 Tasmanian National Parks, and in 1989 it was included in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, in recognition of its natural and cultural values.

N9. Maatsuyker Island and Surrounds, Catamaran, TAS

Maatsuyker Island is the second largest (after De Witt) of six islands in the Maatsuyker group.

• The island is roughly triangular in shape and covers about 190 hectares, its highest point being approximately 280 metres above sea level. The island lies ten kilometres from the Tasmanian mainland.
• Maatsuyker Island is part of the Western Tasmania Wilderness National Parks World Heritage Area, and is scenically spectacular, with jagged cliffs rising precipitously from the sea and jumbled rocks and boulders on the shoreline.
• Several sea caves occur on the coast of the island. The smaller Walker Island lies to the north of Maatsuyker Island, and The Needles, a chain of pyramidal rocks 100 metres in height, lie to the south.
• The latter are devoid of vegetation except a few plants of Bower Spinach (TETRAGONIA IMPLEXICOMA) and Pigface (CARPOBROTUS ROSSII) near their summits.
• Walker Island is small (11 hectares) and steep-sided with severely stunted, wind-pruned vegetation. It provides breeding habitat for many species of birds.

N10. Port Cygnet Wildlife Sanctuary

Located on the north side of Huon Estuary, Port Cygnet Wildlife Sanctuary provides an important feeding and refuge area for many species of waders and waterbirds. It is especially important for the Black Swans for which the port is named.

• Port Cygnet Conservation Area provides excellent waterfowl habitat for a range of waterbirds which breed, shelter and feed in the reserve.
• The reserve is significant as a refuge area for numerous bird species including migratory birds such as Latham's snipe (Gallinago hardwickii), the Great egret (Egretta alba) and the Crested tern (Sterna bergii).
• A striking and rare example of the phenomena associated with alkaline intrustive complex occurs on the western foreshore of Port Cygnet, near Regatta Point.

Port Cygnet Conservation Area occupies the northern-most inlet in Port Cygnet, immediately south of the township of Cygnet, 50 kilometres south-west of Hobart. The inlet provides habitat of extensive intertidal mudflats and shallow waters for a variety of waterbirds which feed, breed and shelter in the area, particularly Black Swan (CYGNUS ATRATUS).

• Adjoining Burtons Reserve and picnic area, Port Cygnet Wildlife Sanctuary is a wetland area on the southern outskirts of Cygnet township. Gulls, swans, herons, ducks and other shorebirds and seabirds can be found here.
• Port Cygnet was first proclaimed as a wildlife sanctuary in 1952 for the protection of the foreshore and wetlands. The marine component of the reserve area was proclaimed Port Cygnet Marine Conservation Area under the Nature Conservation Act 2002 on 9 December 2009. This reserve class provides for the protection and maintenance of the natural and cultural values of the area and the sustainable use of natural resources.
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White-necked heron	Masked Lapwing	Little Pied Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant	Great Cormorant	Cattle Egret
Richards Pipit	Silvereye	Golden Whistler

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Southern Tasmanian National Heritage Areas

Up to 67 areas are listed on the Australian Heritage Register in 2017

Cygnet, Huon Valley

Cygnet is a town in the Huon Valley, south of Huonville, Tasmania. Wikipedia

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Photos of Cygnet	Map of Cygnet, Tasmania	Building in Cygnet, next to church

Cygnet National Heritage

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• 7 Heritage results found.

C1. Deep Bay Geoheritage Site Abels Bay Rd, Gardeners Bay, TAS, Australia

• (Indicative Place)
  

C2. Indigenous Place Cygnet, TAS, Australia

• Registered on the National Estate
• Keep your eyes open for shell middens along the coast, where Palawa (Aboriginal people) have been living for at least 40,000 years. Be respectful: View but don't touch or walk over the easily damaged middens.
  • There are also several interpretive experiences in Southern Tasmania, designed to introduce visitors to Palawa heritage.
    

C3. Methodist Church (Former) Nicholls Rivulet Road, Nicholls Rivulet, TAS, Australia

The former Methodist church at Nicholls Rivulet is one of only two surviving structures with direct associations with the Tasmanian Aboriginal race (the other being Dolly Dalrymple's cottage at Sherwood, near Latrobe) (G.1).

The building has very strong associations with its principal benefactor, Fanny Cochrane Smith (H.1).
History: early Methodist services in the district of Nicholls Rivulet (formerly Irish Town) were held in the home of William and Fanny Smith. 

• Fanny Cochrane Smith (1834-1905) was recognised by the Tasmanian government as 'the last survivor' of the Tasmanian Aboriginal race, and was granted 305 acres of land at Nicholls Rivulet in 1889. The Smith family became leading members of the Methodist community. One of the sons, William, became a lay preacher.
• Fanny, in particular, was regarded as a tireless worker, and in late 1895 or early 1896 she gave half an acre of land for the purposes of building a church. It was intended 'to hold the land until the necessity arises for us to erect a church'.

Within five years the Methodist congregation had outgrown the accommodation afforded by Fanny's kitchen, and the foundation stone of the church was laid on 6 November 1900. 

• The construction of the church took six months, and the first services were held in the new church on Sunday 5 may 1901, when the Reverend CW Atkinson preached in both the morning and afternoon.
• It is not known when the Methodist church ceased to be used for worship. Miss Henslowe records that the building was used by the local Anglican community.
• (Registered) Register of the National Estate
  

C4. Port Cygnet Geological Monuments Lymington Road, Cygnet, TAS, Australia

The sites include outcrops of uncommon rocks with distinctive texture such as the sanidine-rich phonolite. Two groups of igneous rocks (dolerite and the alkaline intrusives) occur, apparently the result of two unrelated intrusive events. 

• The hydrothermally altered rocks in area b are an excellent and uncommon example of the effects of a magma of different composition on existing rocks.
• The sites contain the only known cretaceous rocks in Tasmania and provide an opportunity to examine an unusual magma type in conjunction with the more common doleritic rocks. These are important teaching sites. (Criteria A1, A3 & B1)
• (Registered) Register of the National Estate
  

C5. Port Cygnet Wildlife Sanctuary Cygnet, TAS, Australia

Port Cygnet Conservation Area provides excellent waterfowl habitat for a range of waterbirds which breed, shelter and feed in the reserve. A striking and rare example of the phenomena associated with alkaline intrustive complex occurs on the western foreshore of Port Cygnet, near Regatta Point.

• (Registered) Register of the National Estate
• See above listing

C6. Port Cygnet-Huon River Geological Monuments Cygnet, TAS, Australia

 
The Port Cygnet exposures provide comprehensive sections displaying the Lymington stage of the Permian system in Tasmania and provide data crucial to the interpretation of the Permian in Tasmania. 

• The sections are an excellent record of marine conditions during a glacial episode.
• The sites are an outstanding example of a stratigraphical reference section in the fossiliferous sedimentary strata. They are used as the reference section for this stage of the Permian in Tasmania, having long continuous exposures without abrupt changes in lithology. The beds are unfaulted and are continuously fossiliferous, with the fossils well preserved.
• (Registered) Register of the National Estate
  

C7. Robleys (Regatta) Point Geoheritage Site Lymington Road, Cygnet, TAS, Australia

• (Indicative Place)
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Cygnet Local Heritage

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10 more Records found at Australian Heritage Places Inventory, C8. to C17. below

C8. Burtons Factory Site Charlton Street, Cygnet

Factories for the manufacture of jam, apple processing and dehydration, as well as the manufacture of wood wool were built on the land now known as Burton’s reserve.

• This is the triangular piece of land explored by the French. It is situated where the Agnes Rivulet enters Port Cygnet.

Apples and cherries are still grown in the Cygnet area and cider is made here and in the Huon Valley, but the large processing factories of the Harvey era have gone.

• Relics of the early apple industry can still be seen around the town of Cygnet.
• If you look closely as you drive you will see packing sheds, old steam engines, apple pickers’ huts, and the original brick apple dehydrating kilns made of brick.
• A few very old apple trees can be seen in paddocks or on the roadside.

At Burton’s Reserve in Cygnet remain a few buildings from the apple processing era – the Weighbridge, the Bridge Cottage and a shed that is now used by the Cygnet Scouts.

• For those who are interested a model of the Harvey and Burton factories that stood on the site is on display. There is also an interesting steam engine.

Weighbridge Cottage, Burtons, Cygnet

Burtons Factory Site includes a Federation period vernacular weatherboard cottage that is adjacent connected (in a mechnical sense) to a weighbridge.

• There is an intact small verticalboard Inter War period cottage of heritage significance and a large gable roofed shed with skillion addition
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation/Inter War vernacular
• Read more: Apples-of-the-Huon-part-one/, Apples-of-the-Huon-part-two
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #8227

C9. Commercial Hotel 2 Mary Street, Cygnet

It is a double storey brick building with a hipped roof and a double storey verandah with cast iron detailing.
There are later additions to each side of the building.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3472
• Tripadvisor booking site

C10. Cottage RA 158 Guys Road, Cygnet

This four roomed simple Victorian Georgian timber cottage with attic and verandah, retains many of its original features. These include: external oak walls, lath and hessian internal walls along with numerous layers of wallpaper, hand split oak floor boards and original fire places.
The dwelling had a large kitchen / laundry added after WWI - of which the stove is fired by wood and is still operational.
Additions include a separate laundry, side extensions to the cottage to increase the living area, a self contained flat adjoining the back verandah and a separate shed.
Original paths, stone walls and trees also feature on the property.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #9945

C11. Cygnet Hotel 77 Mary Street, Cygnet

A double storey brick Federation hotel building, with a two storey verandah.
Description: It is a double storey brick building with hipped and gabled roof forms. There is a gabled roofed end bay and a double storey verandah with coupled timber columns and timber detailing.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation (Filigree)
• Friendly country bar, Fine local food and wine
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3469

C12. Former ANZ Bank 20 Mary Street, Cygnet TAS

No longer a Bed and Breakfast operation, now home to Cygneture Chocolates and Digital Agency

This place has strong meaning for the community because it demonstrates aspects of Federation society and contributes to the early twentieth century streetscape. The former ANZ Bank is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a double storey brick and stuccoed Federation Free Classical bank building. These characteristics are found in the external form, construction methods and the detailing, both externally and internally.

Description: This is a double storey brick building with a hipped roof and contrasting brick and stucco on the facade. There is a pediment above the centre upper storey. There is heavy stuccoed detailing around the windows and in a wide horizontal band between the upper and lower storeys. There is a stuccoed arched porch supported by Classical columns and with a balcony above. The lower storey windows are grouped in threes with the middle windows being arched.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Free Classical
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3470

C13. Former Public Buildings - Cygnet Mary Street, Cygnet (Cygnet Town Hall)

A two storey brick Federation Free Style municipal building.
Description: This is a two storey brick council chamber with a public hall to the rear.
The building features hipped roofs, double hung windows, paired and single, a portico and town clock over the main entry with a small pediment over.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Free Style
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #7156

C14. Former School - Play Group Centre 7122 George Street, Cygnet

A single storey weatherboard rural Victorian Rustic Gothic school building.
Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with a steeply pitched gabled roof, timber decorative bargeboards, finials and roof vents. The windows are multi-paned. The verandah has been enclosed.
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
Tasmanian Heritage Register #3468

C15. St. James College, George Street, Cygnet

Tasmanian Heritage Register

C16. St. James Convent and Presbytery, Mary Street, Cygnet

Tasmanian Heritage Register

C17. St. Marks Church and Rectory and cemetery, 24 George Street, Cygnet

Tasmanian Heritage Register

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Dover, Huon Valley

Dover is the southernmost town of its size in Australia, located on the western shores towards the southern end of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, just south of the Huon Valley, southwest of Hobart, located on the head of Port Esperance in Tasmania. Wikipedia
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Photos of Dover, Tasmania	Map of Dover, Tasmania Australia

Dover

• See also (on this page):
• Dover convict station.
• Dover Local Heritage

Prior to European settlement the area around Dover was inhabited by Nuenonne Aboriginal people for at least 30,000 years.

• The town's locality was named Port Esperance by the French explorer, Admiral Bruni D'Entrecasteaux, who charted the area in 1792.

In 1792 Bruni D'Entrecasteaux explored the area and named the bay Esperance after L'Esperance, one of the vessels in his expedition.

• Dover was originally established as a convict probation station which operated between 1844 and 1848. There is now little evidence of the town's penal past.

Dover lies beside the waters of Esperance Bay and the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, with the imposing figure of Adamson's Peak in the background. Dover is a pretty fishing village with beaches, pastoral scenery and plenty of fresh seafood and produce for hungry travellers.

• Dover is not quite the southernmost town in Australia but it is close. One of Tasmania's most southern towns, Dover sits at the head of Esperance Bay and overlooks the small islands of Faith, Hope and Charity.
  • Dover's settlement began after the closure of the Port Esperance convict probation station, 1845–47. Timber splitters, then mill men exported huge quantities of beams, piles, paving blocks and railway sleepers worldwide, shipping from the port of Dover.
  • Four large mills in a radius of four miles, plus smaller mills, brought community development. As land was cleared, orchards were planted.
  • After the First World War, the timber industry slowed, and only Raminea mill continued until 1973. Small mills cut timber for apple boxes. Small fruits and orcharding were important in the area until 1970, when markets changed.
• Dover has attractive beaches and unspoilt scenery, while quaint cottages and English trees give the town an old world charm.
  • The town is a centre for apple orchards and fishing for salmon, abalone and crayfish. Its Atlantic salmon fish farm is the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • The town has a population of about 500 and the major industries are forestry and fishing; particularly Atlantic salmon, abalone and cray fishing, and nearby are apple orchards.
  • After the convict settlement the small town developed as an important port shipping huon pine to the world. By 1850 there were a number of sawmills in the area. Some of the old steam driven timber cutting engines can still be seen in the local museum.
    It is claimed that the one link between Dover in England and Dover in Tasmania is that huon pine shipped from this area was used in the construction of Dover Pier.

Dover convict station.

• Dover was originally established as a convict probation station. Here, inmates transitioned to the status of a pass-holder, eligible to be assigned to employers and earn wages while still serving their time in the penal system.
• There is now little evidence of the town's penal past.
  All that remains is the well preserved (and privately owned) Commandant's Office(Rodman) which is located next to the Caravan Park on Kent Beach Road.
• Picturesquely situated on Port Esperance, Dover offers excellent views across the water to the islands named Faith, Hope and Charity.
• It is possible to sail across to Faith Island where there are a number of historic graves from the 1840s when Dover was a convict probation station.
  A trip out to three islands in the bay named Faith, Hope and Charity is recommended
• The three islands were named perhaps to inspire the convicts held at the original probation station.
• The smallest of the three islands in Esperance Bay, Faith Island, was known in earlier times as Dead Island. When the Dover Convict Probation Station was in use between late 1844 and 1848, numerous convicts were buried here, hence its early name.

Dover Local Heritage

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• 6 records found at Australian Heritage Places Inventory (search terms: "Franklin", "Huon" "Tasmania")

D1. Brick Kiln, Station Road, Dover

The Dover brick kiln is of heritage significance as a rare and outstanding example of an earth formed brick kiln.

• This early colonial brick kiln is of historic heritage significance due to its ability to demonstrate a light industrial process that is now changed.
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3478
  
  

D2. Congregational Church & Cemetery 6963 Huon Highway, Dover

This is a weatherboard church with a gabled roof, decorative timber barge boards, finials and exposed rafter tails. The windows are lancet and there is a bellcote. A small cemetery is attached.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3476

D3. Dover School Chapman Street, Dover

A single storey Federation State School building.

• Now The Dover Online Access Centre, this is a local community operated computing centre managed by the Far South Community Association Inc, staffed by a Co-ordinator and assisted by a dedicated team of trained volunteers who are available to give one-to-one assistance to all patrons.
• The Centre is located within the ”Old Dover School” in Main Road at Dover overlooking Esperance Bay.

Description: A gable roofed building which features pressed metal gable end infills with a central vent, tall metal roof vents, towering chimneys and groups of double hung windows. There is a skillion addition to the rear.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #7104

D4. 'Rodman' 23 Kent Beach Road, Dover

Dover was originally established as a convict probation station. There is now little evidence of the town's penal past.

• All that remains is the well preserved (and privately owned) Commandant's Office(Rodman) which is located next to the Caravan Park on Kent Beach Road.

This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey brick Old Colonial Georgian domestic building.

• This is a simple building with a hipped roof continuing down on all side to form a verandah. The walls are brick and covered in a lime wash. There are timber additions to the rear in a similar style.
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Old Colonial Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3474

D5. Shop, Cnr Station Road and Main Road, Dover

This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building.
Description: This is a corner shop with verandah and display windows at the corner apex. There is a residence to the rear with a cant bay and verandah. The building has a complex hipped roof with dormer windows, one as a hip and two as gables. Original weatherboards have a chamfered edge typical of this locality and period.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #7155

D6. St Marys Church of Our Hope, 19 Chapman Street, Dover

St Marys Church of Our Hope

St Marys of Our Hope Church is a rare intact example of a Henry Hunter designed weatherboard church. It is one of only two fully intact examples, and is the only surviving church that fully reflects Pugin principles followed by Hunter. 

• The church is of historic cultural heritage significance because of its special association with Henry Hunter, critically acclaimed as Tasmanias greatest nineteenth century architect and the most prolific church architect.
• Hunters designs are distinctive because he followed and practiced principles set by A. Welby Pugin involving such concepts as honesty of construction.
• This place is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian Carpenter Gothic church.

Description: It is a Victorian Carpenter Gothic church that has a steeply-pitched gable roof clad with corrugated iron. 

• There are plain timber bargeboards to the gable ends of the main roof, the front porch, and sacristy, and crucifix-shaped finials to both gable-ends of the main roof. Windows are square-head timber-framed and multi-paned.
• The whole stucture rests upon a prominent sandstone base. The design of the church strongly reflects the principles established by A. Welby Pugin, and followed by Hunter.
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Carpenter Gothic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #8225
  

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C. Franklin Area

Franklin is a small township on the western side of the Huon River in the south-east of Tasmania, between Huonville and Geeveston. At the 2011 census, Franklin had a population of 326. Wikipedia

Photographs of Franklin, Tasmania	Map of Franklin, Tasmania Australia

Franklin

• The historic village of Franklin, once a bustling shipping port, nestles in Tasmania’s orchard and southern wineries region. Along with hillsides of apples and cherries, and the majestic Art Deco Palais Theatre, it is home of the Wooden Boat Centre, preserving the skills of traditional wooden boatbuilding.
  

  Franklin on the Huon river, Tasmania

  • The main township, first called 'The Settlement' and then renamed Franklin in honour of Lady Franklin, grew up around Fleurty's Rivulet and up as far as Prices Creek.
  • Hemmed in by river, the mudflats and the steep hillsides it became the biggest township on the Huon River with a large number stores, some fruit processing factories, and a grain mill which was established by John Clark just north of the township.
  Lord and Lady Franklin used to stay at Clark's Mill at Woodside on their visits to the Huon. To commemorate these visits a cypress tree was planted many years later next to the jetty where the Franklins used to tie up in their boat, the Huon Pine, which had been built of huon pine at Port Davey.
  • In the 1840s and 1850s, after the Franklins had left Van Diemen's Land, many of the early settlers moved away from Franklin and settled along the river. The Geeves family moved to Lightwood Bottom in 1850 and founded Geeveston, the Judd brothers founded Juddbury and the Sherwins moved just south of Juddbury to Forest Home.

The main street in Franklin.	Ye Old Franklin Tavern (1853)
The Palais Theatre, once the Franklin Town Hall.	The Franklin Lockup (1889) designed as a portable cell.
The Old Timber Court House now the chic Petty Sessions Cafe.	The park between the main road and the Huon River at Franklin.

Franklin National Heritage

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F1. Egg Islands Geoheritage Area Huon Hwy Franklin, TAS, Australia

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F2. McMullens Leithbridge Sawmill Complex New Road Franklin, TAS, Australia

During the 1850s, timber getting was revolutionised with the introduction of the timber tramway which enabled the movement of large and regular volumes of timber from the bush to mills and wharves. 
This form of transport operated until at least the 1950s. The McMullens Leithbridge Tramway is a good and relatively intact example of a timber tramline associated with this major phase of timber harvesting.

• Steam technology introduced in the 1870s made a quantum leap in the technology of timber getting. It led to new machines to haul and load timber such as log haulers which retrieved felled trees from the butt to the timber tramway. Steam powered log haulers continued in use until the 1950s.
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F3. St Johns Anglican Church, Hall and Churchyard Huon Highway, Franklin, TAS, Australia

St Johns church has important associations with the early social and religious history of the Huon community (A.4).
The church and its surrounding graveyard are landmark elements, with a picturesque hillside setting above the township of Franklin (E.1).
The church is in the Academic Gothic style typical of the work of the Hobart architect, Henry Hunter and designed during an early period of his creative output (H.1).

• See much more below

Franklin Local Heritage

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46 records found at Australian Heritage Places Inventory (search terms: "Franklin", "Huon" "Tasmania")

F4. Franklin Cottage, Commercial Retail (Crowe) 3396 Main Road, Franklin

A single storey weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building (with 1920s shop attached).
Franklin Cottage, circa 1860, is a typical example of shop/home and is Heritage listed.

The dwelling has a steep pitched gabled roof section with timber decorative bargeboards, finial and attic window.
There is a shop attached with a lower pitched gabled roof.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3589

F5. Former Bank 3400 Huon Highway, Franklin 7113

Former Bank 3400 Huon Highway, Franklin

A two storey brick and rendered Federation Free Style commercial building.
Description: This is a two storey, symmetrical brick building with timber windows and painted rendered bands and string courses with a parapet to the street. There are expressed engaged brickwork piers and paneled timber doors.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Free Style

This 1920s original Bank building right in the heart of the Riverside Heritage town of Franklin is not your everyday property for sale. The attention to detail and presentation is amazing and the flexible potential use right on the main tourist route will give passionate buyers something to think about.

The property consists of the beautifully restored old bank building with the vault and office and shop front, as well as a kitchen, dining and lounge downstairs and 3 bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs.
The fully approved naval Museum shed at the rear is separated into its own 2 bedroom unit / flat and a huge flexible fully lined and insulated commercial space on 2 levels used as the museum.

• Sale listing and photographs
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #7153

F6. Former Bank - Bowmont Centre, Huon Highway and New Road, Franklin

A double storey brick Federation Free Style public building.

Description: This is a double storey brick building with a hipped roof, sandstone base and timber framed arched windows. There are rendered and painted details such as stringcourse, cornice and pediment.
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Free Style
Tasmanian Heritage Register #3517

F7. Palais Theatre, Main Road, Franklin

• Website for news and information

The Palais Theatre is a Federation style theatre at Franklin, in the heart of the Huon Valley, approximately 30 minutes drive south of Hobart Tasmania. This was originally the Franklin Town Hall, opened in 1912.

Vandalism and disrepair reached such a stage that there was talk of demolition but this was fortunately fended off by the establishment of the Palais Management Committee and it was substantially due to their efforts, especially those of Paul Abbott and Lloyd Griffiths, and a work for the dole programme, that saw this elderly but distinguished building restored to health.

It is available for hire for concerts, dances, weddings, meetings, private functions etc.
It is a double storey brick building with rusticated stone base and a hipped roof. There are timber framed windows with multi-paned top sashes and a cantilevered portico over the entrance. There is a stuccoed band under the eaves.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Free Style
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3499

T9, F8 Former Uniting Church Hall 3328 Huon Hwy, Franklin Tas 7113

Once part of the heart of the community, the 1860 Methodist church overlooks the river and its black swans. Now the home of Riverflow Yoga and Accommodation, this Heritage listed stone church is enjoyed by visitors and locals, for bed & breakfast, shared wellness, or individual retreat.

• Now known as: River Flow Yoga & Accommodation

The Old Methodist Church	Wooden boats on the Huon;	Huon River view;	Church from the lane

• Registered
• See details above
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3481

F9. Franklin Masonic Hall Huon Highway, Franklin

A single storey Inter-War Free Classical building. These characteristics are found in the external form, construction methods and the detailing, both externally and internally.

Description: The Franklin Masonic Hall is a single-storey brick, Inter-War Free Classical building. Of an overall simple and restrained style, it indicates the later stripped classical forms. On a rectangular plan design, the hipped roof form is concealed behind a large parapet and entablature. Strong contrasts are achieved between the deep red of the bricks and the white stucco. The fagade is simply formed, and classical themes conveyed through thinly layered pilasters. Art Deco motifs are included in the stucco work. Windows of multiple small panes are featured on the side of the building at the upper area.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Inter-War Free Classical
• Read a blog about Franklin, the source of this photo
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #10281

T11, F10 Franklin Lodge, 3448 Huon Highway, Franklin (as 'Brick Cottage')

Franklin Lodge is a Heritage Listed, Colonial, Bed and Breakfast found nestled in surrounding gardens in the Huon Valley.


Franklin Lodge” was originally constructed in 1850 in the bustling riverside community of Franklin, as a 6 bedroom 2 storey home which now features 4 bedrooms with ensuite, plus 2 other bedrooms & a 5th bathroom. 

• All of the original features including open fire places, pressed tin ceilings, original doors, woodwork & ornate cornices are in place.
• Ornate fireplaces are scattered throughout the house & a large wood heater controls the temperature for the home.

"Franklin Lodge" was re-constructed in 1900 & is located on the main tourist route of the Huon Valley, in the bustling riverside community of Franklin.

• Formerly one of the premier B&Bs in the Huon Valley, this 6 bedroom 2 storey home features 4 rooms with ensuite, plus 2 other bedrooms and a 5th bathroom for owners use. Sale listing
• See more details above
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3493

T10, F11. Federal Hotel, 3440 Huon Highway (Main Road) Franklin TAS 7113
Statement of Significance: Franklin Tavern is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a two storey, brick Victorian Georgian commercial building.

Franklin Tavern

Description: A symmetrical, two storey, brick building with a corrugated iron hipped roof and boxed eaves. There is a verandah to both floors and two adjacent elevations, with a separate skillion roof, simple decorative brackets and plain railing.

• The building and verandah are splayed across the corner between the two elevations, there is a door to the splay. The ground floor verandah is enclosed and glazed on the side elevation.
• The panelled main door is central to the front elevation, and has half-sidelights and transom light. There is one window to either side of the door, and three windows to the first floor. The windows are double-hung, some with 12 panes and some with large panes.
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian

The first Franklin Tavern began life in 1846 as a general store situated higher up on the hill. Licensee Elijah Brown decided to move the hotel closer to the road in 1853 – it became the Franklin Hotel and was later renamed the Federal Hotel.
In 1979 the present owner, Kon Reitler, purchased the hotel and undertook an extensive restoration program, changing the name to Franklin Tavern.

• 1860 (Henry Chesterman) Registered
• See details above
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3495
• Website: www.franklintavern.com/ Phone: 03 6266 3053 Fax: 03 6266 3205

F12. Hollywood House, Walpole Lane, Franklin

This is a double storey brick building with a hipped tile roof, 12-paned windows and a stringcourse band. There is a stone barn outbuilding. Mature garden obscures this building from the laneway.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Old Colonial Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3529

F13. House 10 Church Street, Franklin

This house in Church Street is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building.

Description: An asymmetric weatherboard building with a corrugated iron gabled roof, boxed eaves and simple chimneys. The door is central to the front elevation; to one side is a window, to the other a projecting wing. The wing has a 2-centred window to the ground floor and a single window to the attic.

• There is a similar wing to the rear elevation, together with a much larger wing which is probably a later addition.
• All the gables have traceried bargeboards, and pendant and finial. The verandah to the front elevation has a separate skillion roof, and a traceried valance and similar railing to match the bargeboards.
• All the windows have timber architraves, and are double-hung with large panes. The door has half-sidelights and a rectangular transom light.
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3484

F14. House RA 224 Swamp Road, Franklin

1920 built farmhouse set on approx 12 acres of pasture and rain forest with permanent creek running through and a huge dam. This home has had some recent renovations including a new Blackwood country style kitchen

This house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian domestic building.
Description: It is a weatherboard building with a steeply pitched gabled roof, timber decoraitve bargeboards and a cant bay window on the lower storey. There is a verandah with timber posts and cast iron brackets.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
• Sale listing and photographs
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3524

F15. House RA97 Old Road, Franklin

RA97 Old Road, Franklin TAS

RA 97 Old Road is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a double storey weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building.

Description: It is a double storey weatherboard building displaying a multi-gabled roof with timber bargeboards and finials. There is a verandah with cast iron brackets and a dormer window.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3523

F16. House 97 Old Road, Franklin

97 Old Road, Franklin TAS

This house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.
Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with a hipped roof, double hung windows and a pressed metal infill to the sub-floor level. There is a verandah with timber posts, brackets and balustrade. Part of the verandah has segmental glass panels.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3522

F17. House RA 234 Jacksons Road, Franklin

234 Jacksons Road, Franklin TAS

This house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building.

Description: It is a weatherboard building displaying a steeply pitched gabled roof form with timber decorative bargeboards on the front section. There is a verandah with timber posts.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3521

F16. House RA 3826 Huon Highway, Franklin

This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building.
Description: It is a weatherboard building with sandstone base, a steeply pitched gabled roof with timber decorative bargeboards and finials, and a verandah with timber posts.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3514

F17. House 3686 Huon Highway, Franklin

3686 Huon Highway, Franklin TAS

This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Federation Queen Anne domestic building.
Description: This is a Federation Queen Anne house with a projecting weatherboard gabled roofed section, a return verandah over the front door and a small bay window to one side. The primary roof is hipped and the verandah has decorative timber brackets.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Queen Anne
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3513

F18. House 10 Kay Street, Franklin

This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building.
Description: This is a two storey weatherboard cottage with a gabled roof projecting from a main hipped roof. The projecting section has a paired double hung window and timber detailing. There is a verandah over the main entry door that features timber detailing and a weatherboard railing.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3512

F19. (Rustic) House, 3582 Huon Highway, Franklin

This place has strong meaning for the community because it demonstrates aspects of Victorian society and contributes an historic element within the rural landscape. 

• This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey (with loft) weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic cottage.
• These characteristics are found in the external form, construction methods and the detailing, both externally and internally.

Description: It is a single storey weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic residence. It has a steeply-pitched gabled roof clad with corrugated iron, and a tall corbelled brick chimney. 

• The gable-ends are decorated with ornate timber bargeboards and finials. The facade comprises a gable-roofed section, with attic window and a pair of double hung sash windows below this. There are timber mouldings to all original windows. There are also two large weatherboard additions to the facade.
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3511

F20. House RA 2458 Main Road, now 3347 Huon Highway Franklin

• Huon News, 3347-3351 Huon Hwy, Franklin TAS 7113

This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building.
Description: This is a single storey weatherboard house set hard on the street edge. It features a primary gabled roof and a transverse gable all with battened gable ends. The windows are double hung and set in pairs.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3503

F21. House, 3358 Huon Highway, Main Road, Franklin

This heritage-valued house was finished on Aug 12, 1883. It is thought to have been the town blacksmith’s due to numerous horseshoe relics.
This house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.

Description: It is a weatherboard building with a hipped roof, 12-paned double hung windows, two dormer windows and a verandah with cast iron brackets.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3502

F22. House, 3434A Huon Highway (Main Road), Franklin

This house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.
Description: A symmetrical, single storey, with attic, weatherboard building with a steep-pitched corrugated iron hipped roof and boxed eaves. The panelled door is central, with one window to either side. The windows are double-hung with large panes. The verandah has a separate hipped skillion roof, and iron lace brackets providing a round-arch effect. There is a gabled dormer window in both side elevations.

• Sale listing and photographs
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3496

F23. House RA 3501 Huon Highway, Franklin

RA 3501 Huon Highway, Franklin TAS

This house on the Huon Highway is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.

Description: A symmetrical, single storey, with attic, weatherboard building with a corrugated iron hipped roof, boxed eaves and simple chimneys. The panelled door is central with a window on either side. There are two gable-roofed dormer windows to the rear elevation. The verandah extends along three sides, has a separate bullnosed roof and has iron lace brackets. The windows are double-hung with 12 panes.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3488

F24. House RA 3082 Huon Highway, Franklin

(Obscured by garden shrubbery).


This house on Huon Highway is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey, weatherboard Victorian Filigree domestic building.

Description: A symmetrical, single storey, weatherboard house with a corrugated iron gabled roof, boxed eaves and tall chimneys with moulded tops. There is a wing to each end of the front elevation, with a faceted bay window.

• The gables of the wings have stucco and timber infill, and pendant and finial at the apex. The verandah follows the contours of the front elevation, has a separate skillion roof, and has iron lace frieze, brackets and railing.
• The door is central and there is a gabled entrance to the verandah at this point. All the windows are double-hung with large panes.
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Filigree
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3486

F25. House, 1 Swamp Road and Huon Highway, Franklin

Cnr Swamp Road and Huon Highway is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building.
Description: It is a weatherboard building with gabled roof forms, decorative timber bargeboards and a verandah with timber detailing.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3525

F26. House, 41 Jacksons Road, Franklin Huon Valley

This house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey stone Victorian Georgian domestic building (with Federation extension)
Description: It is a single storey building with a hipped roof and coursed stone walls. There are double hung timber framed windows flanking a central door. There is a weatherboard gabled roofed extension with a beaten metal gabled infill panel.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3519

F27. House, RA 3049 Huon Highway, Franklin Huon Valley

• Sold $315,000 in Mar 2007
• Last Sold $290,000 in Dec 2005
• House: 4 Bedrooms, 2 Bath rooms, 2 Car spaces; Land size: 4,022 sqm; Building size: 154 sqm

This 1890s home offering up to 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 living areas, myrtle kitchen, original open fire places and mantles, wide sunny verandahs, polished timber floors. Feel the warmth and charm of this heritage listed home that has been beautifully restored and sits on an acre of land. Enjoy the Huon River views from the deck and fish from your backyard.

This house on Huon Highway is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.
Description: A symmetrical weatherboard building with a corrugated iron gabled roof and chimneys with moulded tops. The central door is panelled with half-sidelights and a transom light, and has a window on either side. The verandah extends along three sides, and has a separate bullnosed roof. There are two windows to the attic in the gable wall. All the windows have timber architraves, and are double-hung with large panes.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3485

F28. House 4030 Old Huon Highway, Castle Forbes Bay, Huon Valley

This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.
Description: This is a single storey weatherboard cottage with a central door and flanking double hung windows. There is a verandah over the main entry door that features single timber posts.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3464

F29. House, 171 Braeside Road, Franklin

List price: Over $355,000 in Apr 2007

This house in Braeside Road is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey, weatherboard Federation Queen Anne domestic building.
Description: A symmetrical, single storey, weatherboard building with a corrugated iron hipped roof, boxed eaves and chimneys with moulded tops. There is a flying- gabled roofed wing to opposite ends of two adjacent elevations, with pendant and finial at the apex. Under the flying gable is a faceted bay window. The wings are linked by a verandah with a separate bullnose roof, iron lace brackets and fringe, and a simple rail. All the windows are double-hung with large panes.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation Queen Anne
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3482

F30. 'Coghlan' House, Temperance Lane, Franklin Huon Valley

This house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building.
Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with a gabled roof form, decorative timber bargeboards and multi-pane double hung windows. There is a curved verandah with timber posts and panels.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3526

F31. 'Crosby' House, 7 Church Street, Franklin

This house in Church Street is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey, weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.
Description: A symmetrical, single storey, weatherboard building with ashlar sandstone base, corrugated iron hipped roof, boxed eaves and simple chimney.

• The central door is 4-panelled with a four pane transom light, and has a 12-paned double hung window on either side. The verandah has a separate hipped skillion roof and plain posts.
• There are two gable-roofed dormer windows to the front elevation, and a modern skylight between them. There is an extension to the rear with a separate skillion roof. All the windows have timber architraves.
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3483

F32. 'Gadd' House, Temperance Lane, Franklin

This house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian domestic building.
Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with a hipped roof and verandah with cast iron details. There is a gabled roofed addition with beaten metal gable infill and a cant bay window.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic (Queen Anne?)
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3528

F33. 'Hanson' or 'Woodside' 3118 Huon Highway, Franklin

Woodside is of historic heritage significance because of its potential to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Old Colonial Georgian domestic building, with a Federation addition.

• 'Woodside' was established in 1836 by John Clark, who was the first white settler in the area.
  • Frank Clark planted many of the trees that are still harvested for cider by the 5th and 6th generations of the Clark Family. SeeFrank's Cider website
  • Lord and Lady Franklin used to stay at Clark's Mill at Woodside on their visits to the Huon.

Description: Two conjoined weatherboard buildings with corrugated iron gabled roof, a pressed metal panel to the top of the gable, boxed eaves, chimneys with moulded tops, and a lattice screen to the foundations.

• The original house has a verandah to two adjacent sides, with simple decorative brackets and railing. In the gable end, it has two windows to the ground floor and two to the attic. All are double-hung with 12 panes.
• The later building is slightly smaller and has a lower-pitched roof; the eaves overlap the eaves of the older building. It has a pressed metal panel to the top of the gable and a 3-part window to the ground floor. The centre window is larger than the side windows, and all are double-hung with large panes.
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Old Colonial Georgian and Federation
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3487

F34. 'Huondene', or 'Harrison' House, 3368 Huon HIghway (Main Road), Franklin

C 1880, was a home, boarding house and doctor’s surgery in the 1960’s.
This building is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.

Description: This is a weatherboard cottage with a central door, flanking double hung windows and hipped roof with narrow boxed eaves. There is a small verandah over the front entry and several weatherboard additions to the rear.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3501

F35. 'Ingham' House, 3336 Huon Highway, Franklin

This house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.

Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with a hipped roof and double hung windows flanking a central door. There is a verandah with timber posts, brackets and lattice infill panels.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3510

F36. 'Jenkins' House, 7 Temperance Lane, Franklin

This house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.

Description: It is a single storey weatherboard building with a hipped roof and a verandah with cast iron brackets. There are double hung windows flanking a central panelled door with side panels.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3527

F37. 'Moore' House, corner of 3334 Huon Highway and Church Street, Franklin

Cnr Huon Highway and Church Street is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian Georgian domestic building.
Description: It is a single storey, with attic, weatherboard building with a hipped roof and a verandah with timber posts. The front windows are modern and a dormer window has been added to the roof.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3515

F38. 'Roberts' House, 3456 Huon Highway, (Main Road), Franklin

Colonial Cottage
Charming in every way and an iconic building, the cottage also comes with its own collection of original deeds starting from 1859 to present day.

• "Circa 1840, Convict brick, 3 bedroom colonial cottage, positioned on 2023m2 (1/2 acre) straight across from the beautiful Huon River along the Main Street of the quaint historic township of Franklin.
• This property enjoys views out over the water and is an easy, level walk, to the centre of Franklin."
• House, Sold on 28 Feb 2014 $230,000
  Sale listing and photographs

This house on the Huon Highway is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey, brick Victorian Georgian domestic building.
Description: A symmetrical, single storey, brick building with a steep-pitched, corrugated iron hipped roof, boxed eaves and tall corniced chimneys. The central door is 4-panelled, with one window on either side. The verandah has a separate, hipped, pagoda-style roof. There are two windows in the side elevation; all the windows are double-hung with large panes. There is an extension to the rear elevation.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3492

F39. House of A.and H.Salmon, 3430 Huon Highway (Main Road), Franklin

This house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian domestic building.

• Sold $58,500 in May 1999
• Rent $270pw in Jan 2013
  Many more photographs

This is an asymmetrical weatherboard house with a projecting gable with an attic, a verandah with bull-nosed roof and single posts, a 4-panelled door and double hung windows.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian domestic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3497
  

F40. 'Yeates' House, 3376 Huon Highway (Main Road), Franklin

The White House, circa 1910 (Heritage listed), was temporary accommodation, for example, for rowing teams.
This house is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a double storey weatherboard Victorian Rustic Gothic domestic building.

Description: It is a double storey weatherboard building with hipped and gabled roof forms, timber bargeboards, a verandah with timber brackets and balustrade, as well as a dormer window with upper storey balcony attached.

• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Rustic Gothic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3500

F41. St Johns Anglican Church, Hall and Churchyard, Huon Highway, Franklin

St Johns has a commanding and picturesque setting, on a hillside above the town of Franklin overlooking the Huon River to the east.

• It is surrounded by an extensive churchyard which contains many early graves and monuments.
• St Johns church has important associations with the early social and religious history of the Huon community (A.4).
• The church and its surrounding graveyard are landmark elements, with a picturesque hillside setting above the township of Franklin (E.1).
• The church is in the Academic Gothic style typical of the work of the Hobart architect, Henry Hunter and designed during an early period of his creative output (H.1).

 
Description: Early worship in the Franklin district was conducted in a small timber church, dedicated to St Mary, erected c1840, on land given by Lady Franklin. On 13 June 1855, Archdeacon Davies wrote to Bishop Nixon, emphasising the urgent need for a new church in the growing township. Nixon sought assistance from the government, under the provision of the Church Act, 1837. The government had already committed its budgeted funds, however, and the request for government assistance appears to have lapsed.

Following the ordination and appointment of the Reverend Thomas Stanfield, sufficient funds were raised publicly, and the foundation stone of the new building was laid on 9 February 1863 by Archdeacon Davies. Henry Hunter was appointed architect, and his original design included a nave, chancel, tower and spire. Only the nave and the base of the tower were completed initially. The contractor was John Rait, and the cost, 600 pounds.

The old church which stood adjacent to the new building was subsequently demolished.

• The change in dedication from St Mary to St John is not explained, though the new name may have been chosen to reflect the associations of Sir John and Lady Franklin with the earlier history of the community, in much the same manner as the name of St Davids (Hobart) pays homage to David Collins.
• The partly completed church was dedicated and licensed by Archdeacon Davies on 17 may 1864, the consecration being postponed until the arrival of the new bishop, the Right Reverend Charles Henry Bromby (January 1865).
• Following Bishop Brombys visit to the Huon a few months later, he announced he could not understand how the incomplete building had ever been licensed for worship. In late 1895 it was decided to proceed with construction of the chancel and vestry.
• The timber additions were completed the following year, and on 7 November 1896 the completed building was consecrated by the fourth Bishop of Tasmania, the Right Reverend Henry Hutchinson Montgomery. Restoration of the nave was also undertaken at this time. Further work was undertaken in 1923 and in 1956.

St Johns Church at Franklin consists of a large rectangular nave (16 x 8 m), in the Victorian Academic Gothic style, so frequently applied by Hunter. The timber chancel (5 x 4.5 m) and vestry (3.5 X 3m) and the entrance porch and tower are all later additions.

• The external walls of the nave are squared uncoursed rubble (white Taylors Bay stone), with dressed stonework of contrasting colour (from Hobart) to window surrounds, buttress cappings, string course below sill and coping to the parapetted gable (at southern end).
• The longitudinal walls are divided into four bays by double shafted buttresses, with gabled cappings.
• The triple lancet east window (chancel) has stained glass with representations of St Peter, St John and St James, presented by W.B. Roberts, Christmas 1921. An earlier window, depicting 'The Good Shepherd' is described in church news, of 4 December 1896. It was removed at an early date, and its location is now not recorded.

St John’s Franklin closure Posted on June 25, 2014 by Bishop John There have been a few enquiries in regards to the closure of St John’s Church, Franklin. In response to an article published in the Huon News recently, I have issued a Media Release which can be viewed below. MEDIA RELEASE: I write in reply to the front page article on 18 June about the closing of St John’s Church Franklin. Local Anglican Churches, and their buildings, can only be sustained if there is a vital local congregation. The Church at Franklin has been maintained for over 150 years by active members of the Anglican Church, who have put countless hours and dollars into this building and to providing Ministers and mission for the community. Yes, the local Parish of the Huon is currently discussing the future of this Church building. The reason for this is that for many years the number of church-going Anglicans has declined, to the point where regular services have not been held there in recent years. There simply have not been enough people supporting the life and health of this Church, in spite of the wonderful efforts of the current small group of faithful members. The St John’s Church building has a number of workplace, health and safety issues that need to be addressed to comply with government legislation. There would need to be considerable funds spent in order to maintain it as a public Church building. The Church does not have these funds, either locally or centrally. We have around 350 buildings across Tasmania, and their maintenance depends on having a healthy vibrant local church to do that. As a result, the Parish of the Huon have made the sad and difficult decision to recommend the deconsecration and closure of this church building.

• Register of the National Estate
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3518
• Read more: On the convict trail: St John's;
• Cemeteries & Churches & Things

F42. St. Johns Anglican Church Hall Huon Highway, Franklin

The timber hall located at the foot of the hill, near the road was constructed in 1870.

• It has a T-shaped plan, with a verandah structure located on the north side, adjacent to an enclosed entrance porch.
• The building has weatherboard external walls, gabled corrugated iron roofs with decorative timber bargeboards and a turned finial.
• A skillion roofed addition is located on the southern side, near the creek. A number of twelve-paned double hung windows remain.

Frank’s Cider Bar and Café was opened in November 2014 by Premier Will Hodgman and is located in the historic township of Franklin in the centre of the beautiful Huon Valley. Franklin is just 40 mins south of Hobart.

• The former St John’s Church Hall, was the Clark Family Sunday School for 4 generations, and was built in the 1880s.
• It has now been transformed into our cellar door, and incorporates a museum showcasing Franklin’s history since the 1830s.
• A single storey, stuccoed Victorian Romanesque ecclesiastical buildings.

Description: A symmetrical, single storey, brick and stucco church, with a rectangular ground-plan, corrugated iron gabled roof, buttresses, and boxed eaves.

• All the openings are rounded-arch and timber framed. The east wall has three grouped windows with simple bar tracery, the central window is larger than the others.
• The entrance is through an enclosed porch with a separate gabled roof. All the gables have traceried barge-boards, and pendant and finial. The church hall is very similar to the church, but constructed of weatherboard and without buttresses and east window.
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Romanesque
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3516

F43. St. Marys Church, Huon Highway (Main Road), Franklin

With extra high ornate timber ceilings, polished wooden & timber arch windows, the character of this building is intact. There is a massive main hall with vestibule & two smaller side rooms. Recently rezoned residential on a 1566m2 block.

• Sale Notice and photographs
• St. Marys Church is of historic cultural heritage significance because of its association with the general community as a religious and townscape landmark.
• St. Marys Church is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a weatherboard Victorian Carpenter Gothic ecclesiastical building.

Description: A single storey, weatherboard building with a rectangular ground-plan, sandstone foundations, a corrugated iron gabled roof and boxed eaves. The gables have decorative bargeboards and a finial.

• The entrance is in one gable end; the door and door-frame are pointed-arch, in a flat-arched doorcase under a flat-arched label mould. In the gable above the door is a window with quatrefoil tracery in a square opening.
• The windows are 3-part pointed-arch, in flat-arched window cases with flat-arched label moulds.
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Carpenter Gothic
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3490
  

Closure of St Mary's Church, Franklin 5th Sunday Year C 10 February, 2013 I might be wrong in making this claim, but I think it is very likely that I came to this church before any of you here today. During my early childhood, I often came to visit a great aunt, Auntie Annie, and her husband Daniel Ryan, who lived on a property just a few hundred metres further down the road towards Geeveston. I recall that the Parish Priest at the time was Fr. Leo Sherry and there were Sisters of St Joseph in the Convent, conducting the school at the time. It would not have entered my head that I would be the one, over 60 years on, who would be overseeing the closure of the church, but that is what is happening today. There can be no doubt that there is sadness in the hearts of all of us as we assemble in this church for the last time before the final gesture of closure at the conclusion of the Mass. Maybe a future purchaser will put the building to another use, and we might be back to see what developments have taken place. The town of Franklin, as we know, has a long history, going back to the time of Governor Sir John Franklin and his wife Lady Jane. Franklin was then the most important settlement on the Huon River, and a busy port, from where the products of the locality were shipped away, mostly up to Hobart. This building is over 150 years old, and it was built according to a design of the noted architect, Henry Hunter, who was a student of Augustus Welby Pugin. Over a number of years now, some serious discussions have taken place about the future needs of the parish. Although Franklin is going through something of a revival, it is not the centre of activity in the Huon Valley as it once was and the three buildings on the site, the church, the presbytery and the convent, in recent times, have clearly been in need of very serious renovation for some considerable time. Many communities in Tasmania have had to face the consequences of the movement of people the decline in the rural economy and sadly, the decline also in the number of people actively participating in the life of the community. Schools have closed, shops have closed, halls have closed and other religious communities have made similar decisions as well. I know that the process of consideration of the future needs of the parish began a number of years ago, back in the time of Fr. Graeme Howard. He was the one who instigated the strongly consultative process which has gone on during the intervening years, one which Fr Greg has taken up energetically since he came to the parish four years ago. The final decision may be one that none of us wanted to make, and it may not be the one what we would have preferred, but things cannot just be left to go on, because there are consequences as a result of that inaction as well. This church of course is a heritage building, so the negotiations that take place about its eventual alternative use, will have to be carried out according to those requirements. As with the proceeds from the sale of the presbytery and convent, all monies will immediately be allocation to the construction of the planned new church in Ranelagh which will be more than adequate to serve the needs of the area. Read more: Closure of St Mary's Church, Franklin

Henry Hunter (architect) Henry Hunter (architect)

F44. St. Marys Convent and School, Huon Highway (Main Road), Franklin

• This building is of historic cultural heritage significance because of its association with the general community as a religious and townscape landmark. St. Marys Convent and School is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey, weatherboard Federation ecclesiastical school and domestic building.

Description: An asymmetrical, single storey, weatherboard building comprising a convent and a school. The building has a corrugated iron gabled roof, boxed eaves, and a chimney with a moulded top.

• The school is accessed through a porch with a separate gabled roof. The gable end has three grouped windows at ground floor level and three, shorter grouped windows in the gable.
• There are four windows in the long wall. The windows are casements with small panes and toplights. The gables have a decorative timber infill at the top. The convent extends from the centre of the long elevation of the school.
• The door is off centre, with one window to one side and two to the other. The verandah has a hipped roof with a curvilinear valance, brackets and railing. The windows are double hung with 12 panes.
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3489

F45. St. Marys Presbytery, 3460 Huon Highway (Main Road), Franklin

"The dwelling whilst needing renovations has potential to be counted once again amongst the most impressive homes in the pristine Huon Valley.With more than 10 rooms and most of them are huge. This Building is waiting for the right person to come along and restore it to its former glory. 

• Rezoned residential as part of the St Mary’s Church of Franklin 5 lot sale, this property has excellent potential and simply is a must see to truly appreciate the elevated river views and grand lifestyle on offer.

The Presbytery is steeped in history and has helped shape our great community over the years. All of this and set on an elevated 2343m2 Huon Riverside block with a garage, a shed and a carport."

• St. Marys Presbytery is of historic cultural heritage significance because of its association with the designer and prominent Tasmanian architect Henry Hunter.
• St. Marys Presbytery is of historic cultural heritage significance because of its association with the general community as a religious and townscape landmark.
• St. Marys Presbytery is of historic heritage significance because of its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a two storey, brick Federation ecclesiastical domestic building.
• Sale Notice and Photographs
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Description: 
A symmetrical, two storey, brick building with rubble sandstone base, a corrugated iron hipped roof, wide boxed eaves, and corniced chimneys. The front elevation has a verandah to both floors with a central projecting frontispiece.

• The verandahs have a separate hipped skillion roof, decorative brackets, simple railing, and a gable over the frontispiece. There are two windows to each floor in one side elevation, and three in the other.
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Federation domestic

• Tasmanian Heritage Register #3491
  

F46. Windsor Farm RA 3520 Huon Highway, Franklin Local Government: Huon Valley

This building has the ability to demonstrate aspects of the growth of Franklin as a rural centre and shows a pattern of development in Franklin.
This place has strong meaning for the community because it demonstrates aspects of Victorian society and contributes a sense of history and built character to the semi-rural landscape.

• This building is of historic cultural heritage significance for its ability to demonstrate the principal characteristics of a single storey weatherboard Victorian Georgian residence.
• These characteristics are found in the external form, construction methods and the detailing, both externally and internally. Later Rustic Gothic elements are also evident.

Description: Windsor Farm is a single-storey Victorian Georgian residence on an L-shaped plan.

• It appears that in the late nineteenth-century, the original house was modified with the addition of a gable section with Rustic Gothic indicators.
• Style differences can be seen in the window form and fenestration between the main house and the gable.
• The residence is clad in weatherboard with a steeply-pitched corrugated iron roof in hipped forms. It features a corbelled chimney.
• The projecting gable includes elaborately carved bargeboards and a finial and pendant. Below this is a double hung sash flanked by two narrow casements.
• The verandah extends around two sides of the building. Slender poles with iron lace brackets and screens support the verandah. Beneath this is the front entrance of a four-panelled door with transom. Double hung sashes of twelve panes feature.
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:- Victorian Georgian
• Tasmanian Heritage Register #10297

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Franklin Heritage No Longer Listed by Tasmanian Heritage Register

T12, F47. Roman Catholic Cemetery Franklin

• Father Murphy Memorial (1898) Registered by Tasmanian National Trust
  

T13, F48. Walpole House, Walpole Road Franklin

• Now Riverview Cottage Bed and Breakfast at 3444 Huon Highway, Franklin, Tasmania 7113
• Situated at the Corner of Walpole lane
  
• (1850) Registered by Tasmanian National Trust

T14., F49 Valleyfield House, Glen Huon Road Franklin

• Fruit Farm · Glen Huon, Tasmania, Australia

• c 1860, Registered by Tasmanian National Trust
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