FORMER CAMP HOTEL AND STORE
889 EAGLEHAWK-NEILBOROUGH ROAD, WOODVALE - PROPERTY NUMBER 201443, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

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Statement of Significance
The former Camp Hotel and Store is also of aesthetic/architectural significance (Criterion E) as a highly intact and substantial 1860s brick hotel, which retains its original 1860s presentation to the Neilborough-Eaglehawk Road, and its setting within the Whipstick. The single-storey red brick construction demonstrates key characteristics (Criterion D) of gold rush era hotels in the Bendigo region, including the height-to-width proportions, single-storey form, rectilinear plan, sequence of multiple doors interspersed with sash windows, brick corbelled chimney cornices and simple block sills. The number of doors reflects the original uses of the building, incorporating the hotel, store and also presumably residence. The hotel's picturesque setting in isolated country enhances its aesthetic qualities.
The association (Criterion H) with Irish architect Robert A Love is also significant. Love was a prolific designer in the Bendigo and Stawell regions during the 1860s, and was responsible for a number of churches, halls, the Bendigo Benevolent Asylum and the Anchor Brewery. He was also one of the first architects to use cavity wall construction in Australia, but not necessarily in relation to the subject building. Modifications and additions to the Camp Hotel have generally been located to rear, with minimal impacts on the principal facade and its historic presentation. The lantern to the east elevation, which may be original, is a signifier of nineteenth century hotel buildings.
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FORMER CAMP HOTEL AND STORE - Physical Description 1
The former Camp Hotel and Store, built 1868, is a single-storey construction in exposed red brick, with a twin hipped roof form, located in an isolated woodland setting at the intersection of two unsealed roads, the Neilborough-Eaglehawk Road and Camp Road. Although sited at a corner, the building's principal presentation is to the east (the Neilborough-Eaglehawk Road), with the Camp Road elevation being comparatively plain. There are a number of barns and outbuildings to the north of the hotel and a red brick toilet to the west (rear). The former hotel and store appears in excellent condition. Externally, it is also predominantly intact as built.
The building has a double hipped roof clad with corrugated galvanised steel sheeting. There are four chimneys in exposed brick, including one with a double-width stack. The chimney cornices are in corbelled brick set on headers that act as cornice brackets. The walls have a sandstone base and there are granite thresholds and cement window sills. The east elevation comprises regular intervals of five courses of stretchers for each header course, decreasing to two courses between headers under the front eave. The side walls have a row of headers between every four courses of stretchers, except near the eave line where the interval increases to one header row in every five stretcher courses.
The east elevation has seven irregularly-spaced openings, three doors and four windows, all with cambered brick soffits. Two of the doors are standard width with fanlights; the third has a fanlight and coupled sidelights. The number of doors reflects the original uses of the building, incorporating the hotel, store and also presumably a residence.
The lantern adjacent to the second doorway of the facade matches the one which is evident in the 1880s image. It is not known if this is original or a reproduction, but if the former, it is a rare nineteenth century hotel signifier. The windows are double-hung sashes with two panes per sash. There is no verandah and there are no indications of anchorage points for a verandah frame, where it was customary to have the verandah roof springing from just below the eave line. There is also no verandah shown in the 1880s image. There is, however, a sealed surface area of ground in front of the facade, to about verandah depth.
A recent timber-framed gabled structure has been added at the rear (west), clad in corrugated galvanised steel. The outhouse at the west of the allotment has an asbestos-cement roof and is also a later addition. To the north the former vertical slab barn and stables (now altered with corrugated external cladding)13, and a metal lined shed with Morewood and Rogers roof tiles. It is possible that these tiles were recycled from the original slab hut Camp Hotel (built 1857). An internal inspection in 1998 noted that there is a cellar below the building, and the original configuration of rooms survives, including the store, bar and dining room.14
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Heritage Policy Citations Review
Author: Lovell Chen P/L
Year: 2011
Grading: Local
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