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Plough Inn Hotel 17 Main Road
17 Main Street MYRNIONG, MOORABOOL SHIRE

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Statement of Significance

An hotel first licensed in 1861, but rebuilt in 1901 in ashlar bluestone.

It is locally historically significant for its association with social and hospitality developments and hospitality in the life ofthe township and as a hotel continuously licensed for 135 years. It is also historically significant as a representative embodiment of a way of life and its social values in a small rural settlement. It is architecturally significant as a relatively intact surviving hotel building.

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    • Physical Description 1

      Plough Inn Hotel 17 Main Road - Physical Description 1

      An apparently early' bluestone hotel building with its former stables (?) arranged around a courtyard. It has five bays of ashlar stonework with quoins which are alternately vermiculated on the front . Elsewhere, openings have brick dressings. Doors have fanlights. The 1920s porch is Medaevalising, with roughcast and timbering upper gable. The hip roof extends around all sides of a courtyard, which has a domed brick well.

      Historical Australian Themes

      Plough Inn Hotel 17 Main Road - Historical Australian Themes

      Townships Community life

      Intactness

      Plough Inn Hotel 17 Main Road - Intactness

      Despite the fire which destroyed the roof, it is remarkably intact. Doors and windows have been replaced, and presumably all ofthe roof structure. It lacks chimneys. Later additions whilst unremarkable, do not diminish the significance of the building.

      SIGNCAl'I'T INTACT ELEMEl'fTS:

      MATERIALS. FORM. FACADE. USE.

      WALL DECORATION.

      UNPAlNTED FINISH. GARDEN STRUCTURE.

      VIEWS.

      Physical Conditions

      Plough Inn Hotel 17 Main Road - Physical Conditions

      COI''DITIONS & THREATS: Good. It appears to be a viable business, although others in the town have closed.

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995

      Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
      Year: 1995
      Grading:

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