Mrs Barsby, the founder of the Southern Heritage Trust, last year ''went out on a limb'' and paid about $14,000 of her own money to save the South Dunedin cottage.
Part of the money went into preparing the cottage for the shift, and paying for it to be moved by truck from Braemar St, near the Dunedin Gasworks Museum, in March last year.
The cottage had been the last surviving one of its type in Braemar St.
The cottage needed to be shifted again by the end of this week, because the land it had been sitting on in McBride St had been sold.
Mrs Barsby said after earlier difficulties finding a suitable location, the Dunedin City Council had ''come to the rescue'' and offered land in the Tahuna Park area and was also paying the more than $5000 moving bill.
She hoped to have the cottage brought back to near the museum, where it could be used to link social history with the museum, and to illustrate the domestic use of gas.
Fulton Hogan Heavy Haulage manager Mark McNeilly said careful planning had played a key part in the latest shift, and Delta was on hand to deal with any potential problems with power lines.
