FORMER NORTH GRANT HOTEL SITE

 The area is first mapped as allotment 1 of Section F in detail in the 1857 Revised Town Plan of Block E. F & H. The site was likely occupied prior as part of the first phase of the Ballarat Main Street development. The site was established as the North Grant Hotel by 1857, The premises likely went through two to three stages of development beginning as a timber structure and developing into a bricked structure by the 1890s. The later nineteenth century development likely sealed earlier deposits. present on the 1923 Ballarat Sewerage Plan showing smaller outbuildings and a cesspit to the south of the site. 

 The site is of historical and archaeological significance. 

 The site is of historical significance as the location of an early gold rush hotel during the years of the Victorian gold rush – one of the most significant rushes in world history. The later nineteenth century shows the development and decline of main road and the movement of the commercial centre to Sturt Street. 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 activities.