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COLERAINE HOTEL
87 Whyte Street COLERAINE, Southern Grampians Shire

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Southern Grampians Shire

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Statement of Significance
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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Coleraine Hotel, a two storey rendered brick building, is located at 87 Whyte Street, in the central of the township of Coleraine.

How is it significant?
The Coleraine Hotel is of architectural and historical significance to the township of Coleraine and the Southern Grampians Shire Council

Why is it significant?
The Coleraine Hotel is architecturally significant as a typical example of an Interwar country hotel, including the surviving dining room, upstairs accommodation and other spaces.

Historically, this hotel and its predecessor on the site, the Coleraine Inn, served as important meeting places for the community in the early stage of the town's development. The substantial size of the Coleraine Hotel, rebuilt in the early 20th century, on the site of an early Victorian hotel, reflects the size and level of activity in Coleraine during the Soldier Settlement period, when the town's population reached its peak.

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- Physical Description 1
  
  COLERAINE HOTEL - Physical Description 1
  
  The Coleraine Hotel is a two storey symmetrical face brick and rendered building. It includes a main entrance hall, public bar, lounge bar (in a 1960s extension) and dining room and service areas on the ground floor. There are ?? Bedrooms on the first floor. Two substantial gabled pavilions stand on either side of a recessed portico with a masonry balustrade on the ground floor and a timber shingled balcony, supported by the ends of the portico floor joists. The gables are filled with timber shingles. The dining room has a notable leadlight window of coloured and textured glass in a loosely Adamesque design. The architecture of the hotel has a more domestic quality than hotels from the nineteenth century.
  
  Physical Conditions
  
  COLERAINE HOTEL - Physical Conditions
  
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  Historical Australian Themes
  
  COLERAINE HOTEL - Historical Australian Themes
  
  3. Developing local, regional and national economies
  3.12.5 Retailing foods and beverages
  3.22 Lodging people
  3.23 Catering for tourists
  
  4. Building settlements, towns and cities
  4.5 Making settlements to serve rural Australia
  
  8. Developing Australia's cultural life
  8.4 Eating and drinking
  8.14 Living in the country and rural settlements
  
  Usage/Former Usage
  
  COLERAINE HOTEL - Usage/Former Usage
  
  Hotel
  
  Integrity
  
  COLERAINE HOTEL - Integrity
  
  Good
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Southern Grampians - Southern Grampians Shire Heritage Study
  
  Author: Timothy Hubbard P/L, Annabel Neylon
  Year: 2002
  Grading:
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- HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH COMPLEX
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H0246
- MECHANICS INSTITUTE
  
  Southern Grampians Shire
- COLERAINE COURTHOUSE (FORMER)
  
  Southern Grampians Shire