Former Railway Hotel, 15 Kings Avenue, ST ARNAUD

The building at 15 Kings Avenue is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian Regency style. These qualities include the parapetted double hipped (M) roof form, with a rear brick gabled wing and horizontal weatherboard skillion. Other intact qualities include the two rendered brick chimneys with projecting cornices, projecting parapet cornices, incised rectangular title panels, chamfered building corner, four panelled timber doors with window transoms, simple projecting window and door architraves, timber framed double hung windows, masonry window sills (but not overpainting), rendered plinth stringcourses and the masonry plinths (but not overpainting).

The building at 15 Kings Avenue is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the opening of the railway line to St Arnaud at the end of 1878, and particularly with Walter Hall's Railway Hotel from 1880 to 1913. After 1913, the building has associations as a private hospital run by Nurse Peters. The relatives of several present residents of St Arnaud were born there.

The building at 15 Kings Avenue is socially significant at a LOCAL level. Although no longer serving as a hotel or hospital, it is still recognised by some sections of the community for its past uses.

Overall, the building at 15 Kings Avenue, St Arnaud (the former Railway Hotel) is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Commercial

Category

Hotel