HOTEL (FORMER)

The former hotel constructed c. 1870 at 2132 Heathcote Redesdale Road is significant. The other outbuildings and tankstands on the property are not of interest. 

2132 Heathcote Redesdale Road is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Greater Bendigo. 

Although there is little historical evidence to link the operation of this building as a hotel before 1883 when John McNiff is recorded as a publican of this address, the form of the building indicates that it was designed as and operated as a hotel from before this time. It is one of several hotels or former hotels in the Redesdale area, although only one still operates as a hotel, at 2640 Heathcote Redesdale Road. Criterion A

The building demonstrates a particularly clear evocation of the hotel building form. It is a key building in the picturesque setting of Redesdale and is complementary in terms of form,some materials and scale with other building in the township. It is notable as a building of locally quarried stone. Although altered by the replacement of some windows and a timber addition at the rear, the hotel is substantially intact in its masonry and is an exceptional example of a nineteenth century corner hotel. Criterion D