A Victorian Weatherboard Villa - Colac

            Sitting proudly behind a neat brick and wooden paling fence, this a late Victorian villa may be found in the Western District town of Colac.

Elegant in its proportions, timber clad cottage was built in the late 1890s.  The villa is typically Victorian with its bull-nosed verandah with dainty and highly ornate cast iron filigree lacework.  It has a corrugated iron roof, and the columns of the verandah are made of hard wearing cast iron with beautiful Corinthian capitals.  The cottage also features ornate Art Nouveau stained glass panels in and flanking the central front door.  

Built in a quiet, tree lined street, this cottage has been built in a prime location not far from the main centre of Colac, and would have appealed to the moneyed middle-classes of the town whose money came from shop keeping and trade.  Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectability and yet is not showy.   

Located approximately 150 kilometres to the south-west of Melbourne, past Geelong is the small Western District city of Colac.  The area was originally settled by Europeans in 1837 by pastoralist Hugh Murray.  A small community sprung up on the southern shore of a large lake amid the volcanic plains.  The community was proclaimed a town, Lake Colac, in 1848, named after the lake upon which it perches.  The post office opened in 1848 as Lake Colac and was renamed Colac in 1854 when the city changed its name.  The township grew over the years, its wealth generated by the booming grazing industries of the large estates of the Western District and the dairy industry that accompanied it.  Colac has a long high street shopping precinct, several churches, botanic gardens, a Masonic hall and a smattering of large properties within its boundaries, showing the conspicuous wealth of the city.  Today Colac is still a commercial centre for the agricultural district that surrounds it with a population of around 10,000 people.  Although not strictly a tourist town, Colac has many beautiful surviving historical buildings or interest, tree lined streets.  Colac is known as “the Gateway to the Otways” (a reference to the Otway Ranges and surrounding forest area that is located just to the south of the town).

Taken on: April 22, 2014

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