Wilkins House / Claredon Hotel (Former)

The former Wilkins residence also known as the former Clarendon Hotel at 231 Nelson Place, Williamstown is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.

Historically, it was owned and occupied by Williamstown's important medical practitioners and briefly by its first and most historically important owner, Dr. Wilkins and for a brief period one of the early hotels of the town run by the renowned Liardet family. (AHC criteria A4, D2 and H1)

Aesthetically, it is an early unusual and generally original building, of a common form but with an uncommon verandah structure and detailing, also it is built from a material (stone) rarely used in the metropolis for housing. It contributes to an important 19th century commercial streetscape. (AHC criteria E1 and F1)Note: Included on the Victorian Heritage Register as VHR H231.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House