Hotel:Somerset Hotel

Hotel ID No75
Hotel Address:

96 Perry Street, northwest corner Campbell Street
Collingwood 3066
Australia
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Suburb:

Collingwood

Most Recent Name:

Somerset Hotel (1871 - 1925)

Previous Name(s):

N/A

When Built/Licenced:

1871

When Delicensed:

1925

Status of Building:

Demolished

Rebuilt/Altered:

N/A

Heritage Victoria Register:

N/A

National Trust Register:

N/A

Collingwood Conservation Study 1989 & 1995:

N/A

City of Yarra Heritage Review 1998:

N/A

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

N/A

Maps:

Kearney 1855: N ; Hodgkinson 1858: N ; MMBW: Detail Plan 1197 & 1198, 1899

Comments:

For a small street, Perry Street was well-served with pubs. The Wattle Tree was already operating in 1871 when the Somerset and the Ayrshire Arms opened within a short block of each other, while the Bell Inn closed in the same year.