STALBRIDGE CHAMBERS
435-443 LITTLE COLLINS STREET 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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STALBRIDGE CHAMBERS - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: Date of first documented occupation, 1855Heritage Inventory Description
STALBRIDGE CHAMBERS - Heritage Inventory Description
First land sale, Allotment 5 Block 14, purchased C Ebdon. 1855 - Hotel. 1877 - Guerero Hotel, two-storeys, stables and outbuildings. 1888 - Waterloo Hotel. 1891-99 - new building constructed, Stalbridge Hotel. Extended 1900-04, used as hotel, offices and barristers' chambers.
Heritage Inventory Significance: HISTORIC BUILDINGS COUNCIL - STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE STALBRIDGE CHAMBERS || WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1891 TO A DESIGN BY THE ARCHITECT, DAVID CHRISTOPHER || ASKEW, FOR R.C. BROWN, THE PRESIDENT OF THE BUILDINGS AND CONTRACTORS' || ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA. THE EIGHT STOREY BUILDING, WHICH REPLACED THE || WATERLOO HOTEL, WAS CONSTRUCTED FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND HAD A HOTEL BAR || AND SHOPS ON THE GROUND FLOOR AND OFFICES OVER. THE BUILDING IS CONSTRUCTED || OF BRICK WITH THE GROUND FLOOR BEING FACED WITH HARCOURT GRANITE AND THE || REMAINDER HAVING A RENDERED FACADE. IT HAS A TIMBER-FRAMED ROOF AND || COMPOSITE CONCRETE AND TIMBER FLOORS SUPPORTED BY CAST-IRON-COLUMNS AND STEEL|| JOISTS. THE DESIGN OF THE FACADE EMPLOYS A DIFFERENTIATION OF ORDERS AND IS || REFLECTIVE OF THE BOOM ECLECTICISM OF THE TIME IN ITS USE OF CLASSICAL, || RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE DETAILING TOGETHER WITH UP-TO-DATE CONSTRUCTION || TECHNIQUES. ||THE GROUND FLOOR HOTEL ORIGINALLY HAD FITTINGS OF POLISHED WALNUT AND QUEENSLAND SILKY OAK AND HAD A MARBLE-TILED FLOOR. THERE WERE ORIGINALLY || ABOUT 60 OFFICES IN THE BUILDING AND THEIR PLANNING DEPICTED A COMMERCIAL || APPROACH TO DESIGN WITH ROOMS LOCATED OFF SIMPLE CORRIDORS ULTIMATELY || SERVICED BY GRANDER LOBBIES. THE CORRIDORS ALSO HAD MARBLE-TILED FLOORS WITH|| CEMENT SKIRTINGS AND EACH ROOM HAD A CORNICED CEILING. THE HOTEL IS NO || LONGER THERE AND THE INTERIORS HAVE BEEN SUBSTANTIALLY ALTERED. THE || IMPORTANCE OF STALBRIDGE CHAMBERS LIES IN THAT IT IS ONE OF A RARE GROUP OF || UNPAINTED HIGH RISE STUCCO-FACED BUILDINGS DATIANG FROM THE EARLY 1890S. THE|| FENESTRATION REPRESENTS THE QUITE INDIVIDUAL WORK OF DAVID ASKEW, INDICATING || A HIGH DEGREE OF DESIGN SYNTHEESIS EMPLOYING A VOCABULARY OF STYLIZED || CLASSICAL ELEMENTS WITHIN A MULTI-STOREY OFFICE BUILDING THAT WAS PECULIAR TO|| THAT DECADE. THIS IS A MASTERLY EXAMPLE OF ITS TYPE CONSTRUCTED AT A TIME || WHEN ARCHITECTURE WAS ABOUT ||TO UNDERGO A PROFOUND STYLISTIC METAMORPHASIS AND SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS WERE TO BE JUST AS PROFOUNDLY CHANGED.
Archeological Potential: Extant bldg Fabric, Potential/Disturbed, 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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