| House | $391,000  |
| Land | $61,000  |
Surrounding suburbs
| House | $226 |
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| Map | Street view | Nearby property price |
| Planning History: |
| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| Last updated on - July 16, 2004 The Great Western Hotel, 97-101 Main Street (Western Highway), Great Western, contributes to the significant, single storey, pitched roof central township area. Originally known as the Shakespeare Hotel, this building has significance as a relatively externally intact example of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. It was built in 1930 for Parkhurst Bowtrell, replacing an earlier hotel building constructed in the 1860s. The site of the hotel was also originally owned by John Hatch, who had established the "Five Flag General Store" in 1859. The Great Western Hotel is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the recessed hipped and gabled roof forms, together with the two symmetrically composed gable roofs that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, symmetrical composition, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding overpainted green, rendered rammed concrete chimneys with terra cotta pots, rendered rammed concrete wall construction, wide overhangs with exposed timber rafters, timber framed window and door openings, central flat roofed timber pergola, paired square and fluted squat verandah columns supported on rendered rammed concrete piers, and the gable infill (rendered panelling and battening, shingling, ventilators and brackets). The Great Western Hotel and site is historically significant at a LOCAL level. The site is associated with the first land sales in Great Western, with this site having been sold to John Hatch in 1859, who established the "Five Flags General Store". From the 1860s the site has associations with the original timber Shakespeare Hotel. The Great Western Hotel building has associations with the site from 1930, after it replaced the timber hotel building. The present building was first known as the Shakespeare Hotel and was not renamed "Great Western" until the late 1960s. The Great Western Hotel is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by the Great Western community as an historic site and as an important recreational meeting place. Overall, the Great Western Hotel, 97-101 Main Street (Western Highway), Great Western, is of LOCAL significance. |
| 05 Sep 2013 |
| Five lot subdivision |
| (Source: Streamlined Planning through Electronic Applications and Referra, reference no: S038595M) |
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