FORMER MITCHISON BROTHERS AUCTIONEER SITE

The site is first mapped as Allotment 21 of Section H on the 1857 Revised Town Plan of Main Street. The site was purchased by H Farley, property developer, and occupied by Ash and Dawson Carpenters and Undertakers. 

The site is of local historical and archaeological significance.

The site is of historical significance as the location of an carpenters and undertakers during the years of the Victorian gold rush. The later nineteenth century shows the development and likely expansion of the hotel that closed in 1914. 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.