135 Church Street
135 CHURCH STREET RICHMOND, YARRA CITY
Church Street North Precinct
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The former Bristol Hotel at 135 Church Street, Richmond was built as a private house in 1862, with an addition fronting Church Street that was built by 1875 for owner Sydney King. It is a two-storey, hip-roofed building in the Renaissance Revival style. The Church Street addition is rendered with ruled courses and the original building fronting Somerset Street has deeply ruled courses on the ground floor, a bluestone plinth (overpainted) and quoins. The building is significant to the extent of its nineteenth century fabric.
Non-original alterations and additions are not significant.
How is it significant?
The former Bristol Hotel at 135 Church Street, Richmond is aesthetically and historically significant to the locality of Richmond and the City of Yarra.
Why is it significant?
The former Bristol Hotel is historically and aesthetically significant (Criteria A & E):
. as a double-storey, Renaissance Revival, former private hotel of c1862.
. as one of Richmond's oldest surviving hotels and which provides tangible evidence of the development of the northern part of Church Street as an early commercial centre in Richmond.
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135 Church Street - Physical Description 1
This is a double-storey, hip-roofed Renaissance Revival, former private hotel, with the eaves extending over the building-line. It has two bays to Church Street and four bays to Somerset Street with a corner splay. The Church Street section is plain render, ruled courses with flat cills. It steps at first floor. The symmetrical Somerset Street section, on an axed bluestone base has a cellar. Its left opening is bricked, but right has bars. The entry-door is recessed to allow four bluestone steps, with a fanlight and an early door. Windows have architrave-moulds on scroll-brackets. It has quoins and ground-storey courses are deeply ruled. The chimney has early pots. The bluestone has been painted.
Heritage Study and Grading
Yarra - Heritage Gap Study
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 2007
Grading: Local
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