The Oriental Hotel

The Oriental Hotel
The Oriental Hotel
	The Oriental Hotel, looking southwest
	The Oriental Hotel Location in New South Wales
Former names	Springwood Hotel
Alternative names	Oriental Hotel, The Ori, Hotel Sydenham
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Pub
Location	110-112 Macquarie Road, Springwood, New South Wales
Country	Australia
Coordinates	33°41′58″S150°34′04″E / 33.6995°S 150.5679°E Coordinates: 33°41′58″S150°34′04″E / 33.6995°S 150.5679°E
Construction started	1878
Completed	1890
Opened	1878(as the Springwood Hotel); 1891(as the Oriental Hotel);
Client	Frank Raymond; James Lawson;
Technical details
Floor count	2
References

Last updated July 23, 2022

The Oriental Hotel, also known as The Ori and formerly known as the Springwood Hotel, is a heritage-listed pub located in Springwood, a suburb of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

History

The Springwood Hotel was built in 1878 by Frank Raymond as a long, single-storied, low-browed building with a simple verandah facing the main road.^[2]

In 1890 Raymond sold a portion of the land grant that he owned at Springwood to James Lawson who developed the site as a large two storey hotel. It is this building that is listed on the local government heritage register of the City of Blue Mountains. The Oriental Hotel is in a prominent location at the corner of Macquarie Road and Raymond Road. The Victorian origins of the hotel are best seen from Raymond Road where the hipped slate roof, rendered chimneys and vertically proportioned double hung windows are most visible. Facing Macquarie Road the hotel has a two-storey verandah on its main north wing terminated by a hipped front. This composition relates to its Victorian origins, but the verandah has lost its original timber and cast iron structure and the windows have lost their highly decorative surrounds. A two-storey wing to the east, set back from Macquarie Street, was built around the same time as the main wing. The picket fence to Macquarie Street is a reconstruction of the early fence on the site.^[1]^[3]

Current features

The pub still operates today, and now also includes a cafe. Bands regularly perform in the pub.^{[ citation needed ]}

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References

1 2 "Sp029 : Oriental Hotel". New South Wales State Heritage Register . Office of Environment & Heritage . Retrieved 7 December 2017.
↑ "Springwood history". Blue Mountains web. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
↑ "Brief history of Springwood". Blue Mountains Information. Springwood Historical Society. Retrieved 7 December 2017.

Attribution

This article incorporates text by New South Wales State Heritage Register available under the CC BY 3.0 AU licence.

External links

Springwood Hotel, Blue Mountains (image). Digital catalogue. State Library of New South Wales.

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[SHR-1] 1 2 "Sp029 : Oriental Hotel". New South Wales State Heritage Register . Office of Environment & Heritage . Retrieved 7 December 2017.

[2] "Springwood history". Blue Mountains web. Retrieved 7 December 2017.

[3] "Brief history of Springwood". Blue Mountains Information. Springwood Historical Society. Retrieved 7 December 2017.

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