Three Crowns Hotel, 365 Victoria Street, West Melbourne
Butler, Graeme21 Jan 1985
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Three Crowns Hotel, 365 Victoria Street, West Melbourne
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21 Jan 1985
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BIF-NORTH 109721
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Grading as at 1985 : BPeriod : Early Victorian (1867)Grantee : J Keens 1859Charles Straker had a long association with this hotel. In 1879, he purchased it from Frederick Stone or Stones, the first owner (1867) whose publican he had been for six years. At this time the hotel was enlarged, the rateable value increasing considerably. By 1890, the hotel was owned by the Colonial Bank, who may have been mortgagers of the property. The owner and licensee at the turn of the century was David O'Callaghan. The hotel valuation continued to increase during the 1880s-90s, doubling from 1886-1890.Two, two-storeyed parapetted stuccoed brick wings, one facing Victoria Street, the other King Street. The latter is simply elevated with a central, gabled parapet entablature and upper decorated fenestration, shared in character by the Victoria Street wing, which has flat pediments and swagged friezes beneath. Cornice and string moulds delineate the horizontals and quoins terminate them as verticals: this wing appears to be the earlier. The Victoria Street wing is a highly decorated but traditional splayed-corner dentillated impost moulds, guilloche pattern string-moulds and gabled pediments with acroteria over doorways, together with barrel-top chimneys comprise most of the decoration. Crossed swords and three crowns illustrate the hotels name in a façade panel and on window glass. It is likely that this decorative façade was applied c1890, to a base form.Architecturally, (Victoria Street) a near original, richly and successfully decorated design, presumably applied to an old form much in the manner of the Railway Hotel, Ireland Street, also a major streetscape element, terminating the main commercial area in Victoria Street south: of high regional importance. (King Street) An altered but simple part of this large complex: of local importance. Historically, the earliest commercial building in the two commercial blocks, between Howard and King Streets, in Victoria Street, West Melbourne and evocative of the typical 19th century corner hotel form; of local importance.Streetscape - The major and earliest part of a notable commercial streetscape.
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