Bush Inn Hotel
58 Corio Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 212825
Woolstores Industrial Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
Statement of Significance
The Bush Inn Hotel building, 58 Corio Street, Geelong, has significance as one of Geelong's earliest hotel buildings, having been constructed in c.1855-56. It has a capacity to demonstrate the early hotel industry in Geelong over an extended period from the mid 19th century. The building is reasonably externally intact, having experienced some changes, and has possibly been designed by the early Geelong architects, Snell and Kawerau.
The Bush Inn Hotel building, 58 Corio Street, is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although altered, it still demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the large stepped parapets, straight angled corner and prominent quoinwork about the building corners and openings. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the timber framed double hung windows, corner doorway, single door openings on the side facades, title panels and projecting mouldings in the stepped parapets, projecting masonry window sills, and the projecting masonry plinth.
The Bush Inn Hotel building, 58 Corio Street, is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the hotel industry in Geelong from an early period in the mid 1850s. The building possibly also has associations with the Geelong architects, Snell and Kawerau. The Bush Inn Hotel building, 58 Corio Street, is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by sections of the Geelong community as a long time recreational meeting place.
Overall, the Bush Inn Hotel building, 58 Corio Street, is of LOCAL significance.
References
References P. Black, The Bush Inn Hotel, research project, School of Architecture amp Building, Deakin University, 14 July, 1990. Black cited the following sourcesMap of the County of Grant Buchan Laird and Buchan, Contract, Account and Day Books, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Geelong City Council Rate Books, Kardinia Ward. W.J. Morrow, Geelong Advertiser Index. quotInvestigatorquot, Journal of the Geelong Historical Society, Vols. 2 amp 8. Pamphlet HL8 quotBush Inn Geelongquot. Oral evidence of Hotel Manager, 1990. Dr David Rowe Authentic Heritage Services Pty Ltd File No. 0893 Page
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Bush Inn Hotel - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 58 Corio Street, Geelong, is dominated by the two storey Bush Inn Hotel building. This building is situated in one of the earliest commercial areas in Geelong developed in the 1850s.
The two storey, rendered freestone (with later overpainting), Victorian styled hotel building is characterised by large stepped parapets, straight angled corner and prominent quoinwork about the building corners and openings. The building has several window openings, with timber framed double hung windows, and more recent timber framed windows on the ground floor. The building is accessed through a corner doorway, and through single door openings on the side facades. These timber framed and glazed doors have been introduced.
Other early features of the design include the title panels and projecting mouldings in the stepped parapets, projecting masonry window sills, and the projecting masonry plinth.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study, Volumes 2-5
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1991
Grading: CGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1993
Grading: CGreater Geelong - Geelong City 'C' Citations Study
Author: Dr David Rowe
Year: 2002
Grading:
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FORMER GEELONG WOOL EXCHANGEVictorian Heritage Register H0622
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FORMER SCOTTISH CHIEFS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0662
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GEELONG TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0184
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