BAKERY HILL COMMERICAL AND RESIDENTIAL 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 eight separate businesses including; Lilley and Miller, Lewell, Garry, Henry Ploughright and Price and Thomas. Eight structures front Humffray Street with some mapped outbuildings and sheds. A modern single storey structure and open asphalt space currently occupied the site The site DEM predictive modelling shows 1m-3m of fill across the site.

The site is of local historical and archaeological significance. 

The site is of historical significance as the location of a commercial and residential site on Bakery Hill during the years of the Victorian gold rush. The later nineteenth century shows the development and likely expansion of sites that are likely to have been capped following demolition in the 20th century. The site is of archaeological significance due to its potential to contain artefacts, deposits and features that relate to the establishment of commercial operations including the Exchange Hotel in the gold rush, and  other later 19th-century activities.