Royal Hotel, 60 Napier Street, ST ARNAUD
60 Napier Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The Royal Hotel, 60 Napier Street, St. Arnaud, contributes to the architectural amenity of the predominantly Victorian and Federation streetscape. Built in 1873 for Solomon Cox, this hotel subsequently experienced several owners and proprietors. It has significance as one of the 19th century extant hotels constructed in St. Arnaud, although the removal of the ogee form verandah, painting over the brick wall construction and the alteration to the first floor windows has substantially impacted the intactness of the place.
Although altered, the Royal Hotel is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates some original rudimentary Victorian design qualities. These qualities include the two storey composition with a simple parapet having projecting brick courses that form a large title and date panel, with three original, incised rectangular panels that read: "Royal Hotel, 1874, Royal Hotel". Other intact qualities include the brick wall construction (albeit inappropriately painted), chamfered building corner, segmentally arched ground floor window and door openings, timber framed double hung ground floor windows with decorative leadlighting, and the ground floor window voussoirs.
The Royal Hotel is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of a hotel business by Solomon Cox, emigrant of Wilshire, England, in 1873. Cox and his family operated and lived at the Royal Hotel until 1881, when it was sold to C.E. Beggs. The hotel is also associated with a succession of subsequent owners.
The Royal Hotel is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by the St. Arnaud community as a local meeting place for social interaction.
Overall, the Royal Hotel is of LOCAL significance.
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Royal Hotel, 60 Napier Street, ST ARNAUD - Physical Description 1
Although altered, the Royal Hotel, 60 Napier Street, St. Arnaud, contributes to the architectural and visual amenity of the predominantly Victorian and Federation streetscape.
The two storey, brick (with introduced paint), rudimentary Victorian hotel building is characterised by an original, simple parapet with projecting brick courses forming a large title and date panel which has three original, incised rectangular panels that read: "Royal Hotel, 1874, Royal Hotel". Another significant original feature of the design is the chamfered corner, which allows the building to prominently address the site. The ground floor features introduced glazed tile wall dados and early segmentally arched window and door openings. The timber framed double hung windows appear to be early, as do the decorative leadlighting. The doors are recent. The first floor consists of a series of substantially altered window openings (that were originally more elongated), with introduced double hung timber framed windows. There is also evidence of the early ogee form return verandah which once adorned the building, with the regular row of punctuations in the walls above the ground floor windows. An early decorative feature of the design is the window voussoirs on the ground floor, now covered in recent paintwork.
To the rear of the main building is a later unpainted brick two storey addition, which has replaced the original two storey gabled roof wing.
Heritage Study and Grading
Northern Grampians - Shire of Northern Grampians - Stage 2 Heritage Study
Author: Wendy Jacobs, Vicki Johnson, David Rowe, Phil Taylor
Year: 2004
Grading: Local
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CROWN LAND OFFICEVictorian Heritage Register H1530
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ST ARNAUD RAILWAY STATIONVictorian Heritage Register H1594
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LORD NELSON TAILINGS DUMPVictorian Heritage Inventory
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