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Manchester Arms Hotel, 87 Napier Street, ST ARNAUD
Location87 Napier Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The Manchester Arms Hotel, 87 Napier Street, St. Arnaud, makes a significant architectural and visual contribution to the local area. Constructed in 1907 to a Federation style, the building is predominantly intact externally, and has a later sympathetic addition along one end. The Manchester Arms Hotel is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Federation style. These qualities include the crowning and simple rendered brick parapet with a projecting arched title panel on the chamfered corner that reads "Manchester Arms Hotel 1907". Other intact or appropriate qualities include in the two storey height, unpainted brick wall construction, unpainted brick chimneys with rendered projecting tops, irregularly arranged single, timber framed double hung first floor windows, projecting cantilevered verandah that envelopes the street facades, arched ground windows with upper leadlighting near the chamfered corner, timber framed ground floor windows and doorways, timber and glazed doors, and the rendered dressings (window lintels and sills, and the first floor wall band). The Manchester Arms Hotel is historically significant at a LOCAL level. A hotel has been associated with the site since 1866 and known as the Manchester Arms since 1871. The hotel demonstrates the development of St. Arnaud from the 1860s into the early 1900s. The Manchester Arms Hotel is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by the St. Arnaud community as a local meeting place for social interaction. Overall, the Manchester Arms Hotel is of LOCAL significance.
Group
Commercial
Category
Hotel