| House | $1,101,900  |
| Unit | $762,500  |
| Land | $256,600 |
Surrounding suburbs
| Drumcondra | $1,569,500  |
| East Geelong | $937,000 |
| Geelong West | $1,006,600 |
| Newtown | $1,182,600 |
| North Geelong | $655,200 |
| House | $509 |
| Unit | $496 |
| Neighbour Photos |
| Map | Street view | Nearby property price |
| Planning History: |
| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| C Listed - Local significance Statement of Significance The Wool Exchange Hotel, 59 Moorabool Street, Geelong, has significance as a reasonably externally intact example of the interwar Stripped Classical style. Built in 1927 as a replacement for the earlier Phoenix Hotel, this hotel was designed by the prolific Geelong architects, Laird and Buchan. The Wool Exchange Hotel, 59 Moorabool Street, is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Stripped Classical style. These qualities include the symmetrical-like composition, having a recessed chamfered corner with flanking regularly arranged bays and a rendered parapet. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the two storey height, brick wall construction, projecting parapet band with stylised roundel motifs and below which are title panels with the names "Wool Exchange Hotel" on the side facades, blind window arcades emphasised by red brick voussoirs and quoinwork, soldier course first floor window heads, incised rectangular panels below the first floor windows and on the bays flanking the arcades, large rendered roundels in the blind arcades, moulded and projecting stringcourse at window head height, plain rendered stringcourse, red brick quoinwork accentuating the corners and edges of the ground and first floor, projecting brick plinth, and the timber framed windows - particularly the timber framed double hung windows. The Wool Exchange Hotel building, 59 Moorabool Street, is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the hotel industry in Geelong from 1927. This building, originally known as the Phoenix Hotel until the 1960s, also has associations with the prolific Geelong architects, Laird and Buchan. The site has associations with some of Geelong's earliest commercial developments. In 1854, the Bank of New South Wales building was erected, and from 1865 this early building became a hotel, soon after named the Phoenix Hotel. The Wool Exchange Hotel building, 59 Moorabool Street, is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by sections of the Geelong community as an important recreational meeting place. Overall, the Wool Exchange Hotel building, 59 Moorabool Street, is of LOCAL significance. References A. Iser, 'The Phoenix Hotel/Wool Exchange Hotel', Conservation Report, School of Architecture & Building, Deakin University, 1990. Iser cited the following sources:- W.J. Morrow, 'Geelong Advertiser Index', Geelong Historical Records Centre. Sands & McDougall Directories of Victoria (various). Geelong Historical Records Centre. Buchan Laird and Buchan, Drawings of the Phoenix Hotel, 1930, Geelong Historical Records C |
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