MEENIYAN HOTEL-MOTEL

The Meeniyan Hotel, at 117 Whitelaw Street, Meeniyan, constructed in 1933 is significant. This hotel is a two storey gabled brick structure covered in roughcast stucco and rendered window architraves. The facade features string courses, a 45 degree splayed corner with entry door, and a gabled projecting portico supported by brick and roughcast piers. The upper level windows feature a single double hung windows with a central, wide, segmentally arched window on the Whitelaw Street elevation. The ground floor windows are wider with three doors with arched openings- one under the projecting portico, one at the splayed corner and one on Welshford Street. 
There are wings at the rear of the building that feature parapet walls and original window designs, as well as a skillion roof sloping down to a central court. The interior retains its Arts and Crafts style staircase. 
Non-original alterations and additions are not significant.

The Meeniyan Hotel-Motel is of local aesthetic and social significance to the South Gippsland Shire.

Historically the Meeniyan Hotel is sits on a site that has been a hotel and store since 1892, and replace the original hotel that was destroyed by fire in January 1933. The hotel demonstrates the significance of Meeniyan as a local commercial and community centre during the Interwar period. (Criterion A) 
Aesthetically, the Meeniyan Hotel is an Interwar building with simplistic stylings but makes a significant contribution to the Meeniyan streetscape, making it a local landmark. Additionally, the Meeniyan Hotel is a commercial example of the work of TE Molloy, who designed a number of locally significant building in the South Gippsland Shire including: The Memorial Hall and Shire Office in Leongatha, and the Public Halls in Mirboo and Fish Creek. (Criterion E)