City View Hotel

City View Hotel
City View Hotel
	Front of building, 2009
Location	277 Brisbane Street, Ipswich, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates	27°36′56″S152°45′04″E / 27.6155°S 152.7512°E Coordinates: 27°36′56″S152°45′04″E / 27.6155°S 152.7512°E
Design period	1900 - 1914 (early 20th century)
Built	c. 1908
Architect	George Brockwell Gill
Queensland Heritage Register
	Official name: City View Hotel
Type	state heritage (built)
Designated	21 October 1992
Reference no.	600557
Significant period	1900s (fabric); c. 1908-ongoing (historical use)
Significant components	lead light/s, tower, toilet block/earth closet/water closet, residential accommodation - manager's house/quarters
	Location of City View Hotel in Queensland City View Hotel (Australia)

Last updated March 20, 2019

City View Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at 277 Brisbane Street, Ipswich, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by George Brockwell Gill and built c. 1908. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.^[1]

A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat screen television, and en-suite bathrooms. Small, lower-priced hotels may offer only the most basic guest services and facilities. Larger, higher-priced hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, business centre, childcare, conference and event facilities, tennis or basketball courts, gymnasium, restaurants, day spa, and social function services. Hotel rooms are usually numbered to allow guests to identify their room. Some boutique, high-end hotels have custom decorated rooms. Some hotels offer meals as part of a room and board arrangement. In the United Kingdom, a hotel is required by law to serve food and drinks to all guests within certain stated hours. In Japan, capsule hotels provide a tiny room suitable only for sleeping and shared bathroom facilities.

West Ipswich is a suburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. At the 2016 Australian Census, West Ipswich recorded a population of almost 500. The western boundary of the suburb follows a section of the Bremer River and part of the northern boundary aligns with the Main Line railway.

City of Ipswich Local government area in Queensland, Australia

The City of Ipswich is a local government area in Queensland, Australia, located in the southwest of the Brisbane metropolitan area, including the urban area surrounding the city of Ipswich and surrounding rural areas.

History

The City View Hotel is a two-storey brick building, believed to have been completed in 1908. The architect was George Brockwell Gill. The site was a difficult triangular one adjoining a deep railway cutting excavated in 1875. Gill produced a skilful solution to the problem, locating an octagonal two-storey "tower" or bay on the apex to disguise the sharp truncation of the building, while the front facade presents as a traditional two-storey verandahed hotel. The hotel was built for T. Humphreys and the first manager was H. Hutting. The name refers to the hotel's position on the edge of the Ipswich CBD. In the 1980s, some of the brickwork was painted and a beer garden structure was erected on the western end. A two-storeyed brick bathroom and toilet annexe was built in the rear courtyard sometime between 1960 and 1980.^[1]

In December 2014, the hotel closed its public bar, citing falling patronage due to drink driving laws, anti-smoking legislation and hard economic times. However, the hotel continues to operate its accommodation and function businesses and might open a restaurant.^[2]

Description

The hotel is a two-storeyed brick building with a corrugated galvanised iron hipped roof. On the eastern end is an attached two-storey octagonal tower with ground-level porch. Extensive alterations have been made to the lounge bar to create a "cabaret-style" interior linked through the southern wall to a timber-framed single storey extension. A two-storeyed kitchen-domestics' wing extends at the rear completing the L-shape of the original building.^[1]

Corrugated galvanised iron or steel is a building material composed of sheets of hot-dip galvanised mild steel, cold-rolled to produce a linear corrugated pattern in them. Although it is still popularly called "iron" in the UK, the material used is actually steel, and only the surviving vintage sheets may actually be made up of 100% iron. The corrugations increase the bending strength of the sheet in the direction perpendicular to the corrugations, but not parallel to them, because the steel must be stretched to bend perpendicular to the corrugations. Normally each sheet is manufactured longer in its strong direction.

A porch is a term used in architecture to describe a room or gallery located in front of the entrance of a building forming a low front, and placed in front of the facade of the building it commands. It can be defined more simply as a "projecting building that houses the entrance door of a building or as a vestibule, or hall.

Heritage listing

City View Hotel was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.^[1]

The Queensland Heritage Register is a heritage register, a statutory list of places in Queensland, Australia that are protected by Queensland legislation, the Queensland Heritage Act 1992. The register is maintained by the Queensland Heritage Council.

The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.

It demonstrates the principal characteristics of a Federation-era provincial hotel.^[1]

The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.

Built c. 1908, the City View Hotel is a well-detailed brick hotel which exhibits aesthetic characteristics valued by the community. It is prominently positioned at a major intersection and has landmark qualities.^[1]

The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.

It is the design of an important architect George Brockwell Gill and is a skilful and typical example of his well-detailed work.^[1]

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "City View Hotel (entry 600557)". Queensland Heritage Register . Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
↑ Bennion, Brian (20 December 2014). "End of an era for city pubs". Queensland Times . Retrieved 11 May 2015.

Attribution

This Wikipedia article was originally based on "The Queensland heritage register" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014). The geo-coordinates were originally computed from the "Queensland heritage register boundaries" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 5 September 2014, archived on 15 October 2014).

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[qhr-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "City View Hotel (entry 600557)". Queensland Heritage Register . Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

[2] Bennion, Brian (20 December 2014). "End of an era for city pubs". Queensland Times . Retrieved 11 May 2015.