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FORMER BRIDGE HOTEL

Location 72 THOMPSON STREET WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY File Number FOL/15/20082 Level Registered

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The former Bridge Hotel was built in 1868 as a nine-roomed timber hotel for licensee John Watson. The hotel was de-licensed during the post-First World War temperance revival. It is a two-storeyed weatherboard building with a corrugated iron hipped roof and a splayed corner entrance. The former hotel has been a private residence since its was de-licensed.

How is it significant?
The former Bridge Hotel is of architectural and historical significance to the state of Victoria.

Why is it significant?
The former Bridge Hotel is architecturally and historically significant as an extremely rare survivor of the once many timber mid-nineteenth century hotels built in Victoria. It is now one of only a few known early timber hotels remaining in the state and the only known early two-storey timber hotel in metropolitan Melbourne. The former hotel, with architraves around its windows and a framed corner entrance, exhibits a simplicity of design and detailing. This simplicity and the splayed corner entrance are characteristic of hotels of this type and age. Although the building has undergone some alterations, it retains its original external form and some early interior features including fireplaces, room number signs and gas lighting fixtures.