RISING SUN HOTEL (FORMER)

1510 LYONS-HOTSPUR ROAD, HOTSPUR, GLENELG SHIRE

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Glenelg Shire

52348 Rising Sun Inn Hotspur 406

Statement of Significance

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  • Usage/Former Usage

    RISING SUN HOTEL (FORMER) - Usage/Former Usage

    Private residence

    Physical Description 1

    RISING SUN HOTEL (FORMER) - Physical Description 1

    The former Rising Sun Hotel is a simple single storey brick building, generally rectangular in plan. It is located on what would have been the most prominent location in the town, on the corner of McDonald and MacKenzie Streets, the traditional intersection, where the traffic moving from Portland to Casterton and Adelaide met the traffic coming from the outlying Stations. The Hotel was originally a two storey building, constructed between 1856 and 1857. It is said to have been constructed using hand made bricks of local Crawford River clays. The decorative use of dichromatic brickwork alternating courses of dark bricks with red bricks, while traditional in Britain and France is very unusual in Victoria before the mid 1860s . Also unusual is that only the east facade of the building has this treatment. The other faces of the building are traditionally laid red bricks. Early photographs show the dichromatic brickwork extended to the second storey on the eastern facade, facing MacKenzie Street, suggesting that this was the most important street.
    
    The former hotel has a traditional corner entrance, with the original 1850s fanlight set above a pair of traditional four paned French doors. An early photograph of the hotel shows that a blank window was located above this on the second storey. This same photograph shows the simple roof form, clad with either shingles, which were replaced in 1913 (Bennett, G., 2006, Personal Communication). The eastern facade has a typical arrangement of two windows, a timber door (perhaps to the original residence) and a third window beyond that. All remaining windows are four paned timber sash windows which appear to date from the 1870s. The second storey had openings arranged in the same locations above, but all were windows. Photographs indicate that the windows were originally twelve pane double hung timber sash windows, typical of the late 1850s. The facade facing McDonald Street to the north had three windows on the second storey and two windows on the lower level. All of the brickwork on the lower level shows evidence of rising damp, perhaps associated with the annual flood cycle of the earliest days of the hotel.
    
    The second storey was removed in 1945-1946 by Wally Heinrich (the owner at the time). The reason given for the removal of the upper storey has been recorded as due to a leaking roof, the upper storey was derelict and it was considered cheaper to demolish the roof and upper storey than repair it (Ibid.). The existing roof (on the now single storey building) follows a similar simple plan to the earlier roof of the two storey building, but a later 'pop up' has been included in the eastern portion of the roof.

    Physical Conditions

    RISING SUN HOTEL (FORMER) - Physical Conditions

    Good

    Historical Australian Themes

    RISING SUN HOTEL (FORMER) - 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

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Glenelg - Glenelg Shire Heritage Study Part One

    Author: Carlotta Kellaway, David Rhodes Mandy Jean
    Year: 2002
    Grading:

    Glenelg - Glenelg Heritage Study Stage Two (a)

    Author: Heritage Matters
    Year: 2006
    Grading:

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