Elephant & Castle Hotel
158 McKillop Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 215930
City South-East Residential Area
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
Historically, an old hotel site and, as a building it has been used for public purposes for nearly a century.
Architecturally, an outstanding and early example of an intermediate scale Queen Anne Revival Style commercial building and a major contributor in an Edwardian and late Victorian era residential precinct.
REFERENCES
RGO SN28458
GA 27.8.91
RB 1892; RGO 28458: parapet date 1891
GA 7.10.92
VB 1895-6, 1041
D1910-39
GA 11.1.95
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Elephant & Castle Hotel - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
Designed in the English Queen Anne Revival style, built of brick and two-storeys in height, the elephant & Castle has two major facade elements, one central to the McKillop Street frontage and the other set over the splayed corner entrance. A gabled parapet and entablature emphasizes each bay, reducing in visual effect to scrolled pediments at the first floor level, over a corner entrance porch and a window facing McKillop Street. Corinthian Order pilasters support each and an arched upper-level corner recess forms a balcony.
Given its commercial use by isolated (by tradition) from similar uses, the building is prominent among the largely one-level timber housing, particularly as it faces Hopetoun Park and forms the beginning of a curving residential streetscape in Bourke Crescent which descends the hill.
Although with some Geelong residential examples (q.v.) it also exhibits an early use of the Queen Anne Style commercial architecture still following Italian Renaissance prototypes in that period (see former Winfield Building Melbourne). Details such as the outer paneled door-pair survive.
External Integrity
Generally original; the bricks have been lacquered (early?) both sympathetic ('shield type') and unsympathetic (internally illuminated) signs have been added; there are new or refaced inner lobby doors; and ground-level windows have been altered.
Streetscape
With its west and north-facing parapet gables and greater scale, the hotels both dominates and complies with its context which is mainly Edwardian and Late Victorian era gabled-roof timber housing. It is a major contributory building in precinct 3.10.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study Volume 2
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
Grading: BGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study, Volumes 2-5
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1991
Grading: BGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study Volume 1
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1993
Grading: BGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study, Volume 4(a)
Author: Helen Lardner
Year: 1995
Grading: B
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CORIO VILLAVictorian Heritage Register H0193
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FORMER GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOLVictorian Heritage Register H0188
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CHRIST CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0186
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