Hotel (Royal) and Stables 200 Main St and 3 Young St
200 Main Street (NW Cnr Young Street) and 3 Young BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
An early two-storey corner brick hotel built in about 1863, part of which was once used as banks. It has splendid two-storey architect-designed stables (1891).
The Royal has local historical significance for its association with development s in the community life of the town, as a business on the Ballarat Road, for its hospitality and as a representative embodiment of the community'slife for over 130 years .
It is of local architectural significance as a representative example of a relatively intact early hotel and for the survival of its stables, as a building type. Finally it is of social significance as a traditional focus and meeting place for the community and for travellers.
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Hotel (Royal) and Stables 200 Main St and 3 Young St - Physical Conditions
Good
Hotel (Royal) and Stables 200 Main St and 3 Young St - Intactness
Hotel: Fair. Stables: Good. The hotel corner first floor window has been sealed. Various doors have become windows and windows, doors. The horsetrough appears to have replaced an earlier one. It is now filled in. The single storey front has been altered. Chimneys have been removed. The stables windows have been altered and probably there are ground level alterations, now obscured. Finials are truncated.
Hotel (Royal) and Stables 200 Main St and 3 Young St - Physical Description 1
A two storey nineteenth century hotel of tuckpointed brick. It has 5 bays with a 3 bay single storey addition to Main Street and 2 bays with a 6 storey early addition to Young Street. It has hip roofs with rock-face stone quoins at corners, and at the Main Street entrance, which has a label-mould over an expressed flat lintel. Other openings have rock-faced stone lintels. There is a dado of 1930s ceramic tiles on Main Street. The corner bar has two Edwardian leadlight decorative windows inscribed "Bar" on a scroll.
The Young Street addition is entirely brick on a rock- faced ashlar base. Its double-hung sash windows have single vertical glazing bars. The Young Street door has sidelights and an annular fanlight, with a guilloche moulding on the doorhead. Eaves have timber brackets in pairs over the windows. There are two chimneys here, with mouldings. There never appears to have been a verandah.
On the Main Street footpath, which is paved with pre-cast concrete diamond pavers, is a reinforced concrete horsetrough "Donated by Anni s & George Gills. Australia ".
At the rear is a two-storey stables. This has a half-hipped roofwith finials, an attic gable with gantry, doors, gablet vents and a pendant barge. Generally there is quadrant spouting which oddly extends across the gable ends, on a false 'eaves' and fascia, and ogee spouting on the barges giving the effect of a truncated pediment. Below the line of the quadrant gutter around the building is a brick band, 5 courses deep. Gable-end openings have fine tuckpointed voussoir brick-heads. Brickwork is Flemish bond. There are cast-iron vents over the windows on the northern side. The building is surrounded by a recent single-storey skillion roofed store. The interior was not inspected.
Hotel (Royal) and Stables 200 Main St and 3 Young St - Usage/Former Usage
USE: Hotel
PREVIOUS USE: Hotel and bank.
Heritage Study and Grading
Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995
Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
Year: 1995
Grading:
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RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0503
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BACCHUS MARSH EXPRESS OFFICE AND PRINTING WORKSVictorian Heritage Register H0504
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FORMER CHRISTOPHER CRISP RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0505
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