LOYAL STUDLEY HOTEL (FORMER)

Built in 1891 for owner Patrick Carmody, the hotel was designed by architect James Wood in the English Queen Anne Revival style. It is a two-storey red brick (since over-painted) building with an asymmetrical facade, extensive render dressings and a gabled main roof with slate roof-cladding.

Non-original alterations and additions to the building are not significant.

How is it significant?
The former Loyal Studley Hotel at 53 Burnley Street, Richmond is historically, socially and aesthetically significant to the locality of Richmond and the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
The former Loyal Studley Hotel is aesthetically significant (Criterion E):

-as an early example of the English Queen Anne Revival manner, applied to a suburban hotel, despite alterations.
-as a stylistic precedent for later architecturally significant hotels, such as the Perseverance and the Daniel O'Connell, built up to twenty years later, and the work of the talented architect, James Wood.

The former Loyal Studley Hotel is historically and socially significant (Criteria A & G):

-as a public gathering place over a long period and the site of one of the key hotels in the small nearby Yarraberg settlement over an even longer period.

Group

Commercial

Category

Hotel