Royal Mail Hotel & pine

What is significant?
The c1927 Royal Mail hotel (currently operating as the Diamond Creek Tavern) and the surrounding site to the title boundaries.

How is it significant?
The hotel is architecturally, historically and socially significant to the Shire of Nillumbik.

Why is it significant?
The hotel is architecturally and historically significant as the only example of an Old English/Tudor Revival style hotel in the Shire of Nillumbik and as a good example of this style. Its ornate design reflects the prosperity enjoyed by Diamond Creek during the 1920s (Criteria B, D & A).The hotel is socially significant because it has been an important gathering point for the community since 1927 (Criterion G).

BITLER STUDY, 2001
The Royal Mail Hotel is of regional significance,

- for the long association of its name with the town of Diamond Creek

- for its association with the period of relative prosperity in the township in the 1920s

- for its long-term use by the community as a gathering place and its representation of that period by its external preservation

- for its architectural significance as the only Old English or Tudor Revival style hotel in the Shire and a good example of the style externally

The pine was an unusual type for the Shire but has no associations with the hotel's beginnings of local interest.

Group

Commercial

Category

Hotel