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CENTRAL HOTEL

Other Name Princes Highway, Beaconsfield Location Princes Highway BEACONSFIELD, Cardinia Shire Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Central Hotel

Statement of Significance

The Central Hotel site and the continuing hotel use on the site are significant to the Cardinia Shire because they symbolise early exploration endeavours and the Bowman's Track pioneering survey. Built in 1928, today's hotel is also a major commercial building in Beaconsfield from the post World War One era which, by its location on the highway, underscores the early emphasis in town growth along the old coach road (the township shifting south only after the railway was built).

This hotel is a near externally complete example from the era of new hotel construction in the Shire during the 1920s and is associated with the locally important Adamsons, the prolific local builders.

Regional Significance