Former Liverpool Arms Hotel

What is significant?

The former Liverpool Arms Hotel (built before 1884), located prominently at the corner of High and View streets in Kangaroo Flat, is a single storey bichromatic brick (overpainted) building constructed to the boundaries of its corner site. The building has frontages to both streets (High and View streets), with the principal presentation to High Street. The return verandah to these building frontages is not original. Significant elements include the moulded and recessed parapet with a stuccoed panel for signage; the low, spreading proportions; the cambered headed double-hung sash windows; and the multiple doors in the two street frontages. The location at the southern entry to Kangaroo Flat, on the township's main street, is also important.

How is it significant?

The former Liverpool Arms Hotel at the corner of High and View streets, Kangaroo Flat, is of local historical and aesthetic/architectural significance.

Why is it significant?

The former Liverpool Arms Hotel (built before 1884), at the corner of High and View streets in Kangaroo Flat, is of local historical and aesthetic/architectural significance. It 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. The former Liverpool Arms Hotel was one of nine hotels at Kangaroo Flat in 1884, and although de-licensed in 1915, remains as evidence of the proliferation of hotels in the goldfields settlements. Its prominent location on High Street also emphasises the role of hotels on main roads. The former Liverpool Arms Hotel, although an evolved building (with additions and modifications) is also of aesthetic/architectural significance (Criterion E); and retains some of the principal characteristics of historic single-storey hotels in the area (Criterion D). The latter include the distinctive elements of single-storey historic hotels, such as the moulded and recessed parapet with a stuccoed panel for signage; the low, spreading proportions; and cambered headed double-hung sash windows. The multiple doors in the two street frontages also reflect its historic hotel function, in originally providing entry to different areas of the building (bar and residence). Its location at the southern entry to Kangaroo Flat, on the township's main street, additionally gives the property a degree of prominence in the local context.

Assessment Against Criteria

Amended Heritage Victoria Criteria

Criterion A: Importance to the course, or pattern, of the City of Greater Bendigo's cultural history.

The former Liverpool Arms Hotel (built before 1884), at the corner of High and View streets in Kangaroo Flat, is of historical significance as an example of a hotel built during the early years of the development of Kangaroo Flat, prior to its proclamation as a township. The former Liverpool Arms Hotel was one of nine hotels at Kangaroo Flat in 1884, and although de-licensed in 1915, remains as evidence of the proliferation of hotels in the goldfields settlements. Its prominent location on High Street also emphasises the role of hotels on main roads.

Criterion B: Possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the City of Greater Bendigo's cultural history.

N/A

Criterion C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the City of Greater Bendigo's cultural history.

N/A

Criterion D: Importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural places or objects.

The former Liverpool Arms Hotel retains some of the principal characteristics of historic single-storey hotels in the area. These include the moulded and recessed parapet with stuccoed panel for signage; the low, spreading proportions; cambered headed double-hung sash windows; and multiple doors in the two street frontages for providing entry to different areas (and internal functions) of the building.

Criterion E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics in the context of the municipality.

The former Liverpool Arms Hotel, although an evolved building (with additions and modifications), is of aesthetic/architectural significance. It retains the distinctive elements of other single-storey historic hotels in the area, including the moulded and recessed parapet with a stuccoed panel for signage; the low, spreading proportions; and cambered headed double-hung sash windows. The multiple doors in the two street frontages also reflect its historic hotel function, in originally providing entry to different areas of the building such as the public bar and the residence. Its location at the southern entry to Kangaroo Flat, on the township's main street, additionally gives the property a degree of prominence in the local context.

Criterion F: Importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period.

N/A

Criterion G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of the place to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions.

N/A

Criterion H: Special association with life or works of a person, or group of persons, of importance in the City of Greater Bendigo's history.

N/A

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