FORMER WEIGHBRIDGE HOTEL

The former Weighbridge Hotel is a single-storey brick building located at the corner of Lockwood Road and Dunlop Lane in Kangaroo Flat. It is constructed to the south and east property boundaries. The west portion of the building (shops) is of recent origin. The hotel was constructed in 1875. Its name relates to the former weighbridge opposite. The building has a chamfered corner entry bay, with door. There is another door to the south elevation, which is flanked by two windows. There are a further three windows to the Dunlop Lane elevation. All the window and door openings in the original hotel component to Lockwood Road and Dunlop Lane appear original or early, while later openings have been made to the rear (north) elevation. The original hotel walls are built in a variant of English bond with one header course for every three stretcher courses. 

The former Weighbridge Hotel is of local historical and aesthetic/architectural significance. 

The former Weighbridge Hotel (1875) is historically significant (Criterion A) as an example of a hotel built during the early years of the development of Kangaroo Flat, prior to its proclamation as a township in 1886. The former hotel also survives as one of nine hotels in Kangaroo Flat included in the Liquor Register of Licensee renewals in December 1884. The name recalls the weighbridge which was historically located opposite the property, now demolished. 

The former hotel is also of aesthetic/architectural significance (Criterion E). It is a surviving hotel of the Victorian period which is similar in its low proportions and chamfered corner, and details including the brick-patterned and recessed parapet, and cambered head double-hung sash windows, to a number of historic hotels in the former Rural City of Marong and the goldfields region more generally. 

The distinctive parapet treatment with recessed upper courses and dog-tooth or detail brickwork is also common to hotels and shops in the Kangaroo Flat area and is something of a local signature (Criterion D).