FORMER TIMES HOTEL AND CLARKE BROTHERS GROCER SITE

The site is first mapped as Allotments 1 and 2 of Section I. The 1857 Section E, F and H and Section I, N and G Revised Town plan, shows two timber buildings with no known cellars, with spencer occupying the eastern lot and the Clarke Brothers occupying the western lot. The Time Hotel occupied the site for a 27-year period and part of the times hotel is likely to survive under the carpark to the south of the site. The site shows 1m to - 1m of fill across the site, there is potential for early 1850s deposits to be capped. 

The site is of archaeological and historical significance. 

The site is of historical significance as the location of an early hotel, grocer and residential property during the years of the Victorian gold rush. The later nineteenth century shows the development and likely expansion of the hotel that closed in 1888. The site is of archaeological significance due to its potential to contain artefacts, deposits and features that relate to the establishment of commercial operations and the exchange hotel in the gold rush, and later 19th-century activities.