Queenscliff Hotel, 16 Gellibrand Street, Queenscliff,

16 Gellibrand Street QUEENSCLIFF, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH

North Gellibrand Street Precinct

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Queenscliff Hotel, 16 Gellibrand Street

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  • Physical Description 1

    Queenscliff Hotel, 16 Gellibrand Street, Queenscliff, - Physical Description 1

    Melbourne architects Reed, Henderson and Smart designed 'an adaptation of Queen Anne's style .a lofty' and effective verandah and balcony and walls of cherry red brickwork tuck pointed, with cemented enrichments consisting of pateras, trusses, keystone and pediments.'(6) (Similarities between the Queenscliff and the Toorak mansion Illawarra are apparent although the latter is by a different architect, James Birtwistle).

    Consistent with the Queen Anne or Elizabethan style, the enrichments were also applied internally. From the entrance hall to the fernery at the rear, the floor was and still is paved with encaustic tiles whilst flanking rooms have selected kauri-pine floors.

    A ladies' drawing room, men's smoking rooms and stair-hall open from this space which leads through an arcaded lead light screen with painted maritime scenes to the fernery and then to the dining room. The dining room has a coffered ceiling with diagonal boarding of polished Danzig pine, elaborate cast-iron roses, timber overdoors, and pedimented window cases. Originally a Belgian marble mantle was intended at the eastern end; an impressive timber mantle similar to that in the ladies' drawing room was installed instead. Many guest bedrooms have fireplaces and adjoining sitting rooms with cornices and roses, providing a higher standard of accommodation than any other Queenscliff hotel of the era. Similarly the upstairs stair-hall is of generous proportions.

    A necessarily discreet adjunct to resort accommodation was a self-contained bar ond bar parlours which were entered from a side lane but distinguished by a cement pediment over the door. A further necessity was the look-out tower to gain views of the Rip. This one had two landings and formerly an open promenade area of modest proportions at the top. The hotel was lit with gas.(7)

    The builders N.W. Fragley (8) had the building near to completion by January 1888. Sixteen months later the northern wing was added by builders E. Robson and Sons.(9)

    More recent alterations to the building include the blocking of the arcaded promenade area in the tower and part of the upper verandah, removal of the arcaded timber and cast-iron fence and approach stair newel-posts, alteration to the front gardens including removal of two Norfolk Island pines, re-roofing of the fernery enclosure of the rear service yard as a bistro, removal of the entry hall glozed airlock doors and sidelights, and the sidelight glazing to the primary doors.< I0)

    Physical Description 2

    Queenscliff Hotel, 16 Gellibrand Street, Queenscliff, - Physical Description 2

    Extract from the 2009 study

    The Queenscliff Hotel is situated on an elevated site on the west side of Gellibrand Street approximately mid-block between Symonds and Hobsons Streets. It is set back from the street boundary behind a mature garden and a recent timber frame corrugated galvanised steel sheet fence and hedge.

    The principal Gellibrand Street elevation is asymmetrically composed. At the south end is a two-storey canted bay that forms the base of a squat tower with a candlesnuffer roof clad in slate tiles and small arched windows. This is balanced at the northern end by a small Dutch gable. An ornate cast iron verandah extends across the ground and first floors of this elevation, returning along part of the north elevation. Part of the building's hipped and gable roof, which is clad in slate tiles, is visible above the parapet.

    Rendered banding in places relieves the face brickwork of the building. The fenestration of the hotel is double-hung sash windows. The front door of the hotel was replaced with frosted glass doors in the mid-twentieth century. Along part of the south elevation a skillion roof garage clad in weatherboards has been built.

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    Queenscliff Hotel, 16 Gellibrand Street, Queenscliff, - Intactness

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    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Queenscliffe - Queenscliffe Urban Conservation Study

    Author: Allom Lovell &amp; Associates P/L, Architects
    Year: 1982
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    Queenscliffe - Queenscliffe Heritage Study

    Author: Lovell Chen
    Year: 2009
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