LINCOLNSHIRE ARMS HOTEL

The Lincolnshire Arms Hotel at 1 Keilor Road, Essendon, on the corner of Mt Alexander Road, established at this site in 1851 or '52 by publican William 'Tulipp' Wright. The original building burnt down in 1905, and was soon replaced with a large, two-storey brick Queen Anne building with prominent half-timbered gables to the two main elevations, a complex gabled tile roof and red brick chimneys with a roughcast render band at the top. The building was updated c1938 by the addition of a curved corner bar bracketed by small, two-storey wings. The two-storey wing facing Keilor Road retains many stylist Moderne details, including a porthole window, a decorative window grille, flat concrete hoods to the entrance and stairwell window, a timber flagpole, and etched glass windows. The curved wing retains original timber-framed windows.

The extensively altered interwar single-storey extension on Lincoln Street is of limited heritage significance.

How is it significant?

The Lincolnshire Arms Hotel is of historic and social significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?

Historically, the Lincolnshire Arms is significant as the site of one of the earliest hotels along the major route to the central Victorian goldfields in the early 1850s. The hotel stands on the pivotal 'Bendigo Corner' where gold rush travellers made a choice between the routes to the Castlemaine and Bendigo goldfields, and was one of the first of a number of businesses established at this intersection. (Criterion A)

Socially, as a centre for community activity since the early 1850s, when it was first offered hospitality to travellers and local Essendon farmers. (Criterion G)

Group

Recreation and Entertainment

Category

Hotel