Crown Hotel
Location
267STREET MAIN LILYDALE, YARRA RANGES SHIRE
Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The property at 267 Main Street, Lilydale (otherwise known as the Crown Hotel) is significant. The form, scale and detailing of the substantial 1891 Federation Free Style hotel is of local significance. The rear bistro, contemporary signage and portico are not significant.
How is it significant?
The Crown Hotel is of local historical and aesthetic significance to the township of Lilydale.
Why is it significant?
Built in 1891, the Crown Hotel is a two-storey rendered brick hotel with a wide frontage to Main Street. It was an early example of the red brick with rendered detail idiom (blood and bandages) expressed in Federation Freestyle design, a character that is now obscured by render and paint.
The Crown Hotel is of local historical and aesthetic significance to the township of Lilydale.
(Criterion A)The Crown Hotel is aesthetically significant as an intact and finely detailed Federation Free Style hotel. Features contributing to the aesthetic significance of the site include the rectilinear form, profiled rendered chimneys, the symmetrical arrangement of two slightly projecting narrow bays on either side of a more elaborate component of the facade, parapet detailing with plaster mould crowns and volute brackets denoting the hotel's name, arched arcaded balcony on the upper floor level, arched windows, Ovolo profile cornices, moulded string courses, and a remnant leadlight window over the corner entrance.
(Criterion E)
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