Australian studio John Wardle Architects has painstakingly restored an original weatherboard cottage in a remote bay on Bruny Island in Tasmania.
The 320-sqaure-metre cottage dates back to the 1840s when it was built by its namesake, Captain Kelly ? a harbourmaster who was noted for his voyage around Tasmania in a whaleboat and for being the first Australian to enter the Antarctic Circle in 1832.
By tracking through libraries, original diaries, and detailed logbooks, the architects discovered that the various ship hands of Captain Kelly may have built the house during the whaling off-season for Kelly and his daughter to live in.
The original cottage consisted of two structures ? one containing bedrooms and the other a kitchen, surrounded by a wide verandah.
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