15 Marlborough Street

Oatlands TAS 7120

This remarkable home has seen generations of the one family come and go since it was built in the early 1800s. It is a snapshot of that era with very little change apart from modern conveniences like electricity (it has been rewired including a new meter board in recent years). The house now offers a wonderful opportunity for someone to restore it to its former charm and beauty. It now sits on approx. 2 acres of land with street frontage on 2 sides so there is also an option to subdivide (STCA).
The main house has three large bedrooms; a lounge (parlour) with open fireplace; a formal dining room (also with an open fireplace); and a kitchen which has a slow combustion stove as well as a modern electric version. Wide, timber floorboards are evident throughout the house and it looks to have the original linoleum in some of the rooms.
Close to the house is a timber building set up as a sleep-out with two more bedrooms that was built to accommodate some of the many children raised here. Another building is divided up into another sleep-out bedroom; a store room (once the dairy); the bathroom; the laundry; and the toilet. Other outbuildings were once used as the local cobblers workshop and blacksmiths shop.