PAKENHAM HOTEL
153 MAIN STREET, PAKENHAM, CARDINIA SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
Pakenham Hotel, built in 1928-29 on a traditional hotel site, is of significance to the Cardinia Shire as an important meeting place for the district farming community and one of the town's most substantial and modern buildings over a long period. The building is architecturally significant and an example of the work of Melbourne architect, Harry W. Johnson, who designed this two-storey red brick and stucco Spanish style building. The hotel has landmark qualities and is an important public building located at the end of the shopping centre, next to the railway and near to the station from where much of its trade arrived. The pine and the cordyline are both contributory to the history of the place.
Regional Significance
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PAKENHAM HOTEL - Physical Description 1
This two-storey red brick and stucco Spanish style hotel is sited next to the railway and near the station. Roofed in a hipped form with Marseilles pattern tiles, the hotel has a cemented and scrolled parapeted element central to what is a near symmetrical main elevation. The upper part of this element has a an arcaded balcony, with wrought-iron balustrading, and the lower half is flanked by deep scrolls. Openings in this section include two windows and a door set within a segment-arched alcove. Windows in the flanking facade have arched cemented detailing above 6 of the 7 windows, in the form of architrave and tympanum, and the sills of each are stop-chamfered. The other window has a segment arched opening with a cemented and scrolled architrave over; the glazing is in leadlight patterns. Upper windows are multi-paned with plainer cemented sills and lintels. A hipped and tiled roof brick single-storey wing is attached on the north, with a minor alteration at its junction with the main building.
PAKENHAM HOTEL - Physical Conditions
The hotel is remarkably near externally original except for an added but detached drive in bottle shop and what may have been an early and visually related single-level addition, on the north. This addition (?) has been itself altered at the corner and new signs added to the hotel roof.
PAKENHAM HOTEL - Historical Australian Themes
Historical Themes
8.4 Railway townships, e.g. Tynong, Pakenham
9.15 Hotels, motels
PAKENHAM HOTEL - Physical Description 2
Associations - Shankly, J; Shankly, Mrs E.
Heritage Study and Grading
Cardinia - Cardinia Shire Heritage Study 1996
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 1996
Grading: Local
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