The Port Arthur Historic Site is best known as 'a place of terror' that combined hard labour and unremitting surveillance of the convict boys and men who knew no other life in Van Diemen's Land. It began life in 1830 as a punishment-oriented timber station. By 1846, 1200 convicts called Port Arthur home, but with the end of transportation in 1853, the population declined leaving only those unable to engage in productive labour. These convicts were gradually removed and the penal station at Port Arthur closed in 1877. In 2010, Port Arthur was entered on the World Heritage List.

Once the fishing residence of Charles Batt OAM, a Tasmanian politician (1974 until 1995), this Georgian convict brick cottage, built in 1840, could tell some tall stories about politics and fish that got away! The town of Bothwell is a gateway to Tasmania’s lake country, with world-class trout fisheries, and boasts the oldest golf course in the southern hemisphere. Batt’s Cottage is now a self-contained B&B.

The pair are largely intact brick worker's cottages.

One of the first occupants of this building was the Bothwell Literary Society under the patronage of Sir John Franklin. It is reputed to be one of the first public libraries conducted in Tasmania. It is now used as part of the Central Highlands Council Chambers.

The Bothwell Town Hall, constructed from sandstone, is a moderately large building with engaged columns on the street facade.

This is a substantial brick Colonial Georgian Store. It is largely intact and still retains its original function.

This is a timber building that has been extended several times. The original bank section has a splayed corner with interjecting gables.

This is a brick cottage with three early and well built extensions, a brick one to the east and another brick hip roofed one to the rear. There is an unsympathetic modern portico to the front door.

The group includes the corner shop as well as the timber shop in Alexander Street. Both feature large shop windows with original timber glazing bars. Both are rare and intact examples of their type. The brick shop features a 28-paned window. The title of the property includes sandstone paving probably contemporaneous with the corner shop (c1850s). This extends from the Alexander/Queen Streets corner for 14m down Alexander Street and for 20 down Queen Street.

This is a Colonial Georgian building in its near original condition. It is still in use as a colonial guest house. The building has a Victorian verandah on the street facade.

This is a small country hall built from sandstone with framed windows and quoins on the corners.

This is an early timber house with a timber bay either side. It is constructed symmetrically with a central entry door and hall. The chimney bricks are sandstock.

It is a single storey brick building with a hipped roof and double hung windows flanking a central door. There is a verandah with segmental glass panels and timber detailing. There is also a dormer window. The stables is a brick building with a gabled roof.

This building is a large, imposing, five bayed Colonial Georgian structure on a large town allotment. It has several early additions to the rear of the building. It is a well designed and constructed building with a fanlight over the door and side lights.

The single-storey Victorian-style home was the base for multiple enterprising gentlemen. It was built around 1864 for Henry Wise, a local wheelwright, by local stonemason Thomas Lewis, using stone from the local quarry. Around 1878, it became the home of Charles Nichols, another wheelwright, who had his carpentry and blacksmithing sheds across the road from his new home. Charles was enterprising and had several business interests, including conducting an undertaker service at Rock Cottage.

This humble worker’s cottage contributes to the streetscape of Bothwell, a country town well known for its Georgian-style architecture. The cottage was built by Robert Blake, an ex-convict, who donated part of his land to the Wesleyan Church. Hidden in the attached garden is evidence of Bothwell’s Wesleyan Chapel, opened in 1859. The church building was demolished in 1903, and the material was recycled in nearby houses. Two crypts associated with the church cemetery have been identified in recent years.

This is a small timber worker's cottage with a verandah to the street edge. It has a chimney on the eastern side detached from the building. The building differs from most of this type in that is deeper than it is wide.

This is a sandstone, five bay cottage with a verandah to the front. It is constructed from the narrow sandstone typical of many buildings in Bothwell. It has larger stones as quoins on the corners. There is a top light over the door and a timber skillion at the rear.

This is a group of abandoned farm buildings situated on the edge of the town of Bothwell. Although predominantly intact they are in a state of decline and are under threat. The house is of Old Colonial Georgian style with central door and two pairs of flanking double hung windows on both sides. There is a hipped roof, pebble-dash finish to the brick walls and corbelled chimneys. The granary is a pillar construction.

This is a simple two roomed single storey cottage with a hipped roof and a central passage. There is an attic room, with dormer and skylight, occupying the whole of the roof space. The cottage has a framed structure using large section timbers with daub infill panels (called Half-timbering in England, or Fachwerkbau in German-speaking regions). Horizontal large section ceiling beams are tenoned into the wall posts. Rafters and roof battens are split timbers, and the ceilings are timber-lined be...