Heritage buildings – Great Ocean Road
Beautifully preserved historic buildings capture the region’s colourful past at towns such as Queenscliff, Port Fairy and Portland. At Queenscliff you'll see imposing Victorian-era hotels, solid old churches and quaint fishermen’s cottages. Charming National Trust-classified homes, modest cottages and stately buildings are everywhere you look in Port Fairy while Portland, Victoria’s first European settlement, is an old and charming place on the edge of a harbour that was once busier than Melbourne.
There are also a number of National Trust properties are open to the public which offer a fascinating insight into the early colonial days.
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The house and 'old world' garden at The Heights dates back to the 1850s and is remarkable for being the largest (14 room) German, prefabricated house in Victoria.
140 Aphrasia Street, Newtown, Geelong
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Barwon Grange is an elegant intact brick home dating from Geelong's earliest residential settlement and has been fully restored and refurnished in accordance with a list of contents dated 1856.
Fernleigh Street, Newtown, Geelong
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Barwon Park, one of Australia's grandest mansions, is a majestic 42 room National Trust bluestone estate built between 1869 and 1871 for Thomas and Elizabeth Austin.
105 Inverleigh Road, Winchelsea, just past Geelong
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The Portarlington Mill is one of the few remaining preserved Victorian flourmills. The building is an imposing four-storey sandstone structure that was built in 1857 and has been fully restored by the National Trust.
Turner Court, Portarlington
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