"Vectis"(Former George and Dragon Hotel)

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The former George and Dragon Hotel was erected in 1855 to designs by little known Geelong architect Thomas R Yablsley. The two storey Colonial Georgian Style hotel was built of regular coursed squared basalt with fine axed dressings on a prominent corner sire for the original licensee Mr Hardy. The hotel building is one of only two known works of TR Yabsley (a skilled practitioner who also was responsible for 'Barwon Bank' homestead at Marnock Vale) and is a fine example for hotel architecture of the 1850's in Geelong. The hotel building later became the Geelong Grammar school preparatory school.

RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES

Geelong Regional Commission Register.

Historic Buildings Council Register.

Australian Heritage Commission Register of the National Estate.

REFERENCES

Geelong Advertiser - 24 April, 1855, tender notice for proposed hotel on the corner of Moorabool and Maude Streets for Mr Hardy, called by Mr Thomas R Yabsley, architect.

Huddle, Lorraine - 'Architects in Geelong in the 1840's and 1850's, Humanities Research report, department of Architecture, University of Melbourne, 1979

Group

Commercial

Category

Hotel