Furnished homesin Battery Point.

“Colonial cottages on a headland above the harbour.”

Battery Point sits on the headland immediately south of Hobart's waterfront and is the most intact colonial residential precinct in Australia — narrow streets of Georgian and Victorian cottages, many built for shipwrights and mariners in the 1830s and 40s, arranged around Arthur Circus, a small circle of workers' cottages facing a central green. Hampden Road runs through it as a low-key strip of cafes, antique dealers and restaurants. Kellys Steps drop from the ridge straight down into Salamanca Place, putting the Saturday market and the waterfront within a few minutes' walk. Housing is almost entirely heritage, so furnished stock here means cottages and converted terraces rather than apartments, and supply is genuinely limited. Medium-term tenants tend to be visiting academics at the University of Tasmania, people on longer postings to Hobart who want to be within walking distance of everything, and those relocating who value the character of the area enough to accept smaller floorplans.