FORMER SIR WILLIAM WALLACE HOTEL SITE

The site is first mapped as the Sir William Wallace Hotel Section M on the 1857 Revised Town Plan of Peel and Mair Street. The site comprises one structure fronting Mair Street Ballarat. site was likely developed as a residential commercial premises throughout the later nineteenth century. The Ballarat DEM predicts approximately -1m +2m in elevation changes from 1858.

The site is of historical and archaeological significance. 

The site is of historical significance as the location of an early residence and commercial precinct during the years of the Victorian gold rush – one of the most significant rushes in world history. The site is of archaeological significance due to its potential to contain artefacts, deposits and features that relate to the establishment of commercial operations in the gold rush, and other later 19th-century commercial activities.