Yorkshire Stingo Hotel

History:

In 1858 Thomas Greenwood was the licensee for a hotel on this site. By 1886 it was owned by William Kelly and by 1892 the Yorkshire Brewing Company. The Carlton Brewing Company, which had acquired the Yorkshire Brewery in 1909, purchased this hotel in 1912. In 1915 it was demolished and replaced with the present building to the design of architects Sydney Smith & Ogg, who also designed the Sir Robert Peel Hotel in Collingwood in 1912.

In 1967, extensive alterations were undertaken to the bar area, much of the external rendered ornamentation was removed and the facade was painted.

Description:

The Yorkshire Stingo Hotel, 48 Hoddle Street, Abbotsford, is a double-storey rendered brick Edwardian building on a prominent site on the corner of Langridge Street. The building's main architectural element is an octagonal oriel corner tower which projects above the splayed corner entry. The tower has rusticated piers which rise from first floor level through two storeys, and terminate at semi-circular arched openings; at mid-height there are spandrels panels with rendered Art Nouveau motifs in low relief. The tower has a corniced parapet with triangular pediments over alternate openings, and is roofed by a pressed metal cupola. The west elevation, to Hoddle Street, has a main entrance flanked by rusticated piers. A semi-circular balconette at first floor level sits below a rusticated arched opening and a triangular pediment. The ground floor elevations comprise a number of rectangular door and window openings with bracketed eyebrow hoods. The first floor windows have six-pane upper sashes and moulded architraves. The roof is concealed behind a simple panelled parapet, which is punctuated by splayed vertical slits, and which has a moulded cornice above a frieze bearing the words YORKSHIRE STINGO HOTEL on both elevations.

A number of the ground floor openings have been bricked up or otherwise altered.

Significance:

The Yorkshire Stingo Hotel is of local historical and architectural significance. The site has been occupied by a hotel since the late 1850s, and its rebuilding by CUB in the 1910s follows a pattern of several other hotels within the municipality. Architecturally, the building is a considered early 20th century design with notable Edwardian details in particular, the corner tower the significance of which is enhanced by its associations with prominent architects Sydney Smith & Ogg.

Group

Commercial

Category

Hotel