Penola's original liquor store.
This simple 1850s two-roomed building constructed of random stone has retained its masonry chimney. The verandah on the eastern elevation is a later addition.
The bond store was used to hold liquor supplies from interstate, because customs duty was payable on goods transported between adjacent colonies prior to federation in 1901.
From 1869 to 1871 it was listed as a cottage, garden and outbuildings occupied by Albert J Edwards, licensee of the Prince of Wales Hotel, and then as a stone store and yard still owned and occupied by him from 1872 to 1875, followed by his wife, Catherine J Edwards until 1882.
The building was used as a residence until 1978 when it was purchased by the District Council of Penola, later Wattle Range Council, which donated it to the Penola Branch of the National Trust in 2017.
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The property is now leased.
