The cottage remains unharmed.

The building was more than 100 years old, and was once home to fishermen Bob Warren, his son Robbie and their families.

Bob Warren bought it from a doctor in the early 1900s.

Bob’s grandson, Pat Warren remembers his great uncle Matt Howard used the hut as a shop for some time before having a store built (now called the Heritage House) opposite the Police Station in Imlay Street.

While the cottage has been maintained and tenanted the hut had long fallen into disrepair, being noted as being “in a state of ruin” as early as the 1930s in the book Down to the Sea (written by John Little about the Warren family).

The building was listed on the Bega Valley Shire Local Environment Plan as Georgian building and shop but was not on the state or national heritage registrar.