Two storey building (part of former Commercial Hotel), 165-169 Main Street, STAWELL
165-169 Main Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The former Commercial Hotel building at 165-169 Main Street, Stawell, makes a significant to the architectural and visual amenity of the predominantly 19th and early 20th century commercial streetscape. Possibly built in 1926-27, the interwar building appears to be in good condition, and is situated on the site of a previous Commercial Hotel shown in historical photographs of 1867 and 1880.
The former Commercial Hotel building at 165-169 Main Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although altered, it still demonstrates original design qualities reflective of the interwar (c.1920s - 1940s) era. These qualities include the rendered brick main facade with three timber framed double hung first floor windows separated from the ground floor by a rudimentary band. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the two storey height, narrow stringcourse surmounted by a crowning parapet with projecting bracketed cornice and parapet pedestals with a solid balustrade between, gambrel roof form clad in galvanised corrugated iron, face red brick side walls, and the timber framed first floor side windows.
The site and former Commercial Hotel building at 165-169 Main Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. The site is associated with the development of a Commercial Hotel prior to 1867, while the existing structure possibly has associations with the Commercial Hotel from 1926-27.
Overall, the former Commercial Hotel building at 165-169 Main Street is of LOCAL significance.
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Two storey building (part of former Commercial Hotel), 165-169 Main Street, STAWELL - Physical Description 1
The former Commercial Hotel building, 165-169 Main Street, Stawell, contributes to the architectural and visual amenity of the predominantly 19th and early 20th century streetscape.
The two storey interwar building features a rendered brick main facade having a three bayed composition on the first floor and a single and altered off-centre entrance on the ground floor. The first floor has three early timber framed double hung windows, and are separated from the ground floor by an early rudimentary band. Above the windows is a narrow stringcourse which is surmounted by a crowning parapet with projecting bracketed cornice and parapet pedestals with a solid balustrade between.
Behind the main facade is an early gambrel roof form clad in galvanised corrugated iron. The side walls are also early and constructed of face red brick. They are punctuated by early timber framed window openings on the first floor, and some of the windows on the ground floor appear to have been introduced or altered. The drive-in entry portico at the side as been introduced, as has the rear brick and concrete terrace, with arched brick openings on the rear wall.
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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