The Lake Hotel (former)

The former Lake Hotel built c.1857 at 6360 Northern Highway, Heathcote, including all the fabric of the timber framed weatherboard building with a return verandah is significant. The gable roofed building at the rear and the outbuilding is also significant.

How is it significant?

The former Lake Hotel, 6360 Northern Highway, Heathcote is of local historic and architectural significance to the City of Greater Bendigo.

As a nineteenth century hotel built during the early gold rush era, the former Lake Hotel is historically significant for its early date of construction and long association with the Etheredge family. The hotel was established by Charles Edward Etheredge with his brother Frederick Augustus Etheredge c. 1857. The partnership ended in 1860. After Charles died at the Lake Hotel in 1910, members of Etheredge family continued to run the hotel until 1947 when it was sold to John O'Donnell. Criterion A

6360 Northern Highway is architecturally significant as a vernacular timber framed weatherboard building with a return verandah and a splayed corner, common to hotels in the study area. The building has been altered and there are more intact hotels in the study area. Criterion D

Group

Commercial

Category

Hotel