Vol 2 Heritage Policy Citation Review - City of Greater Bendigo

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City of Greater Bendigo, Heritage Policy Citations Project Lovell Chen, 2010 Name Former Weighbridge Hotel Reference in 1998 Marong Study Address 12 Lockwood Road, Kangaroo Flat KF02 Map reference VicRoads 613 M3 Building type Shop Survey date June 2010 (external inspection only) Date of construction 1875 Recommendation Include in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Significance The former Weighbridge Hotel is of local historical and aesthetic/architectural significance. Left: South and east elevations, Lockwood Road and Dunlop Lane respectively, c. 1980s (Source: Ruth Hopkins, Moving Forward, Looking Back: the History of the Marong Shire, 1985, p. 59). Right: South and east elevations (2010). Left: Detail of south elevation. Right: Rear (north) elevation. Left: Aerial 2010 (Source: City of Greater Bendigo); the non-original western section of the building is evident. Right: Proposed Heritage Overlay map. The Weighbridge Hotel is shown as KF02. Intactness Good Fair Poor 1
City of Greater Bendigo, Heritage Policy Citations Project Lovell Chen, 2010 History The first publican’s licenses in Kangaroo Flat were granted to William Gunn and James Jamieson on 9 August 1854. 1 Gunn’s Glasgow Arms Hotel (established shortly afterwards and now demolished), located at the corner of Station and High streets, was a Kangaroo Flat landmark. The former Weighbridge Hotel (subject building), whose name relates to the former public weighbridge opposite, was built in 1875 by Henry Alger, the previous owner and publican of the Crown & Anchor Hotel at Lockwood. 2 The building was located in Kangaroo Flat’s historic commercial core. The Weighbridge Hotel was also one of nine hotels in Kangaroo Flat included in the Liquor Register of Licensee renewals granted at the Court of Petty Sessions in Sandhurst on 22 December 1884. The township of Kangaroo Flat was proclaimed in 1886. Robert Slessar was the licensee at that time. 3 In 1907-08 the licensee was G Brooks, 4 and in 1910 the Licenses Reduction Board presided over its closure, the owner being paid £200 in compensation and the occupant £45. 5 The property is presently used as a barber’s shop. Victoria’s Framework of Historical Themes Victoria’s themes and sub-themes: 5.6: Entertaining and socialising 5.8: Working Description & Integrity The former Weighbridge Hotel is a single-storey brick building located at the corner of Lockwood Road and Dunlop Lane in Kangaroo Flat. It is constructed to the south and east property boundaries (zero setbacks). The west portion of the building (shops) is of recent origin. The former Weighbridge Hotel itself has a chamfered corner entry bay, with door. There is another door to the south elevation, which is flanked by two windows. There are a further three windows to the Dunlop Lane elevation. All the window and door openings in the original hotel component to Lockwood Road and Dunlop Lane appear original or early, while later openings have been made to the rear (north) elevation. The window to the east of the corner entry door is a double hung sash, with two panes to each sash. The upper panes are framed by a moulded and arched timber plate, suggesting that it may be earlier than the other window openings, which are double hung timber framed sashes with cambered headers. The original hotel walls are built in a variant of English bond with one header course for every three stretcher courses. The bricks walls are overpainted. There is a stepped parapet to the south and north elevations, with a bracketed projecting course of headers surmounted by stretcher bricks, topped by a further course of headers set back. The parapet continues to the recent addition to the west. Behind the parapet, and with generally limited visibility, is a galvanised steel-clad pitched roof (to the original hotel component). There are three chimneys, including two mounted flush with the five step parapet rear wall. This suggests that this south elevation and the roof it screens were alterations, possibly of the period c.1900-20s. The timberframed skillion-roofed verandah to the south (front) elevation facing Lockwood Road is of recent origin A skillion roofed rear addition to the original hotel, evident in the c. 1980s image (see page 1), has been demolished. The rear yard is paved in asphalt. The property appears generally to be in sound condition. Comparative Analysis In its combination of a brick-patterned and then recessed parapet with a corner entrance and cambered head double-hung sash windows, the former Weighbridge Hotel parallels other hotels in the area, including: the now demolished Windermere Hotel, also in Kangaroo Flat, which had a chimney attached to its parapet as with the rear parapet here; 6 Gunn’s Hotel at the High and Station street intersection (demolished); 7 the former Liverpool Arms Hotel at Kangaroo Flat (W6); and the former Royal Hotel at Woodvale (W1). 8 More generally, the low spreading proportions and chamfered corner typify historic goldfields hotels. These goldfields hotels lso differ from proportionally similar singlestorey hotels in, for instance, the Port Fairy or Port Albert districts in having parapet frontages. 9 The 2
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