Individual Hotel Details

by | 6 Dec, 2015

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Hotel:Bristol and Bath Hotel

Suburb:

Collingwood

Hotel Address:

66 Cromwell Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Hotel ID No

12

Most Recent Name:

Bristol and Bath Hotel (1869 - 1908)

Previous Name(s):

N/A

When Built/Licenced:

1869

When Delicensed:

1908

Status of Building:

Streat (restaurant and cafe)

Rebuilt/Altered:

c. 1879

Heritage Victoria Register:

N/A

National Trust Register:

N/A

Collingwood Conservation Study 1989 & 1995:

N/A

City of Yarra Heritage Review 1998:

Volume 2, Building Citations, Part 1, pp. 101-102

City of Yarra Review of Heritage Overlay Areas, 2007 & Heritage Database:

HO 97 individually significant

Maps:

Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson: 1858: N ; MMBW map: Detail Plan 1210, 1899 (named Bath Hotel)

Comments:

A stone hotel was on this site from at least 1869, but was re-built at some stage, possibly around 1879 (as evidenced by an increase in rateable value). In 1903 it was acquired by the Shamrock Brewery and in 1908 by Carlton & United Breweries. After de-licensing it became a residence, and later a boutique bordello.

The building is of local architectural significance, a free standing two storey symmetrical Italianate brick building with restrained decoration. It is particularly noteworthy nowadays that most surrounding nineteenth century housing has been demolished, leaving it standing in the midst of unprepossessing twentieth century industrial development as a testament to a lifestyle long gone.