OLD ENGLAND HOTEL
459 Lower Heidelberg Road HEIDELBERG, Banyule City
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Statement of Significance
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OLD ENGLAND HOTEL - Historical Australian Themes
Hotels were always central to social and economic life in the early colonial settlements and Heidelberg was no exception. Despite spirited opposition to the grant of its licence, for many years community life in Heidelberg revolved around the Old England Hotel. The hotel was the venue for all manner of meetings and festivities, including the meeting at which it was decided to petition for local government in the area.
OLD ENGLAND HOTEL - Usage/Former Usage
Original: Hotel
Current: HotelOLD ENGLAND HOTEL - Physical Conditions
Good
OLD ENGLAND HOTEL - Physical Description 1
The Old England Hotel comprises three main stages of construction. The original 1848-51 'Staging Post Bar' has a simple hipped roof and apparently stone structure, now rendered, and includes a similar building to the south-west and the lower storey of the Coach Room Lounge Bar. The second stage of 1872 includes the upper storey, of red brick with a gabled corrugated iron roof and bracketed eaves. Stage 3 includes the two-storey timber verandah and polychrome brick residential section.
The building has been considerably altered, the third stage being the least altered although an unsympathetic bottle shop has been added to the north, and the verandah balustrading and frieze work has been removed. The half-timbering in the gable ends,, gable finials and north verandah have also been removed. The simple roof and plan of the first stage have been obscured by numerous additions, alterations, covered ways, outbuildings and fences. The modern Bottle Shop obscures the formerly gabled east facade of original section. The original garden has been replaced by a carpark.OLD ENGLAND HOTEL - Intactness
Poor
OLD ENGLAND HOTEL - Physical Description 2
CAs 1-4/2, Warringal. Grantees: S Benjamin (1-2/2) 11.11.1846; H Baker (3/2) 22.7.1847; J Cook (4/2) 22.7.1847
Heritage Study and Grading
Banyule - Banyule Heritage Study
Author: Allum Lovell & Associates
Year: 1999
Grading: BBanyule - Heidelberg Conservation Study
Author: Graeme Butler and Associates
Year: 1985
Grading:
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PHOLIOTAVictorian Heritage Register H0479
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ST JOHNS ANGLICAN CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0197
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FORMER HEAD TEACHER'S RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H1617
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