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CENTRAL HOTEL
Princes Highway BEACONSFIELD, Cardinia Shire

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Cardinia Shire

Central Hotel

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Statement of Significance
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Statement of Significance

The Central Hotel site and the continuing hotel use on the site are significant to the Cardinia Shire because they symbolise early exploration endeavours and the Bowman's Track pioneering survey. Built in 1928, today's hotel is also a major commercial building in Beaconsfield from the post World War One era which, by its location on the highway, underscores the early emphasis in town growth along the old coach road (the township shifting south only after the railway was built).

This hotel is a near externally complete example from the era of new hotel construction in the Shire during the 1920s and is associated with the locally important Adamsons, the prolific local builders.

Regional Significance

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- Physical Description 1
  
  CENTRAL HOTEL - Physical Description 1
  
  This hotel has a hipped and Marseilles-pattern tiled roof, textured stucco walls, shutters and an arched entry porch. The hotel is in the Mediterranean style which relates to the contemporary Spanish styled Pakenham Hotel and other modern hotels of that era. It is thought that part of an earlier building may survive within the perimeter of this later structure.
  
  Physical Conditions
  
  CENTRAL HOTEL - Physical Conditions
  
  The hotel is generally externally original except for the addition of a flat-roofed canopy at the west end and the addition of signs which are unrelated to the period.
  
  Historical Australian Themes
  
  CENTRAL HOTEL - Historical Australian Themes
  
  Themes
  
  2.1 Early explorers
  8.4 Railway townships
  9.15 Hotels, motels
  11.0 Evidence of: Life style, housing and landscape choice of notable figures residing in the district
  
  Physical Description 2
  
  CENTRAL HOTEL - Physical Description 2
  
  Associations - Ellis & Nicholls; Adamson, James; Budge, GE; Bowman family (site only)
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Cardinia - Cardinia Shire Heritage Study 1996
  
  Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
  Year: 1996
  Grading: Local
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