Bozen’s Cottage

15 Marlborough Street, Oatlands

BOOKINGS OPEN AT 10 AM ON THURSDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2023

Architect: Unknown (1842), Taylor & Hinds Architects (2019)

Bozen’s Cottage carefully restores and repairs a modest Georgian house. It reveals the opportunities of architecture beyond the physical fabric and has ultimately repositioned, if not reset, the very notion of the Tasmanian vernacular both historic and emerging.

The Cottage speaks quietly of its Colonial Georgian design and history as a convict-built cottage that has had 180 years of continuous occupation. The project commenced by stripping back the unsympathetic additional layers gleaned over more than a century and the original fabric was carefully conserved through traditional techniques. This effort gave rise to the opportunity to make full use of the two large windows and generous window seats to the north-eastern elevation: a move which redefines the qualities of these living spaces to be light-filled and relieved of burdensome furnishings.

The generations of families who previously occupied this house over two centuries were blacksmiths, carpenters and pastoralists. Their memory is recast in the new work through a series of finely crafted insertions, which provide contemporary amenity and create a delicate scaffold to the rooms.

This project took out numerous architecture awards both in Tasmania and nationally including:

Tours: Sunday 12 November 2023, 11 am, 11:45 am and 12:30 pm

Duration: 20 minutes

Note: This is a shoe-free household.

Locations

Further afield

Oatlands

Building Types

Award Winning

Residential

Architectural Periods

Contemporary (2001-current)

Pre-separation Colonial (1836-1850)

Features

Architectural Design

Heritage

Accessibilities

Level Changes

Uneven Surfaces

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