TAVISTOCK HOTEL (FORMER)
383-387 FLINDERS LANE MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
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Statement of Significance
This place is included on the Victorian Heritage Inventory, for its potential to contain historical archaeological remains associated with the settlement and growth of early Melbourne. Under the terms of the Heritage Act 2017 there is protection for all historical archaeology sites and objects in the state.
Please visit the Heritage Victoria website to find out more about the Heritage Inventory.
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TAVISTOCK HOTEL (FORMER) - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: Date of first documented occupation, 1836Heritage Inventory Description
TAVISTOCK HOTEL (FORMER) - Heritage Inventory Description
Site of Ship Inn Hotel, 1836-7. Shown 1855 map, 1877 map, etc. Remained hotel under different names until 1914/15. Then donated by citizens of Melbourne to sailors after WWI. Current building constructed 1866 (incorporates 1840s building fabric). New facade 1914.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Source: Report To Minister - Statement of Significance: Description:The former Ship Inn (Tavistock House) is a distinctive two-dimensional renovation in the Edwardian freestyle manner with art nouveau detailing on the upper facade. It is one of the state's earliest surviving hotel sites and retains in part the earliest surviving hotel structure in the central activities district. Although altered, it is recognisable as an 1880's period structure in its scale and in its simple form and fenestration which is typical of hotels of the period. The building, as it stands today, is a successful blending of elements of early Australian colonial and Edwardian freestyle architecture. Built for John Tighe as an hotel and adjoining offices in 1850 and 1852 respectively, to the design of Samuel Marlow, the Ship Inn was extensively renovated in 1906, providing its present art nouveau detailing and freestyle form. The renovations were designed in the architect Richard Flanagan's office. The noted architectural expert, Robert Haddon, is thought to have been consulted on the design.Statement of significance:The former Ship Inn is of architectural and historical importance for the following reasons: as one of the state's earliest surviving hotel sites, dating from 1836 and retaining, in part, the earliest surviving hotel structure in the C B D; as one of a small group of pre-gold rush buildings in Victoria, recognisable in this respect by the scale, simple form and fenestration; as a successful blending of elements of early Australian and Edwardian freestyle architecture.
Archeological Potential: Extant bldg Fabric,Remnant Structure,Site
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FORMER ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS TRAINING DEPOTVictorian Heritage Register H0717
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MITRE TAVERNVictorian Heritage Register H0464
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MELBOURNE SAVAGE CLUBVictorian Heritage Register H0025
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