The Captain Stirling Hotel is a heritage-listed building located at 80
Stirling Highway
Stirling Highway is, for most of its length, a four-lane single carriageway and major arterial road between Perth, Western Australia and the port city of Fremantle in Western Australia on the northern side of the Swan River. The speed limit ...
,
Nedlands, Western Australia
Nedlands is an affluent western suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. It is a part of the local government areas of the City of Nedlands and the City of Perth. It is about from the Perth CBD via either Thomas Street or Mou ...
. The building was designed by Marshall Clifton in 1935,
and is an Inter-War
Mediterranean
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Spanish Mission style two-storey hotel.
History
The Captain Stirling Hotel is situated on Stirling Highway between Stanley Street and Florence Road. It was constructed between April and December 1935 for
Edward Bartram "Bertie" Johnston. The newspapers at the time reported that the hotel was constructed for Robinson,
however Robinson was actually Johnston's solicitor (from the legal firm Abbott, Abbott, Andrews & Robinson) who made the license application on Johnston's behalf, whilst he was out of the state. It was designed by the architectural partnership of
George Herbert Parry and Marshall Clifton. The Captain Stirling Hotel was the first of three Inter-War Spanish Mission style hotels designed by Parry & Clifton, the second being the
Inglewood Hotel (1935) and the third was the Big Bell Hotel near
Cue (1936). The hotel was constructed by Allwood for a cost of
£10,000.
[ Allwood was also responsible for constructing the Inglewood Hotel, the Capitol Theatre, New Oxford Theatre and the Plaza Theatre.
During the 1950s, the eastern end of the building was extended with an office, associated entrance area, manager's quarters and a staircase.]drive-through
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bottle shop
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with vehicular access from Stirling Highway.butterfly roof
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/ Spanish Mission style of architecture, with arch
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ed openings, supported on pre-cast concrete twisted column
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s, first floor balconies, a central Dutch
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influenced gable
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, steel framed windows and arched entry supported on masonry columns. A balcony in the gable has a round arched opening with concrete moulding, and a juliet balcony
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with wrought iron tracery between the concrete balustrades.[ The bottle shop has rendered and painted masonry walls, with a distinctive asbestos clad ]butterfly roof
A butterfly roof (sometimes called a V roof) is a form of roof characterised by an inversion of a standard roof form, with two roof surfaces sloping down from opposing edges to a valley near the middle of the roof.Register of the National Estate
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by the Australian Heritage Commission
The Australian Heritage Commission (AHC), was the Australian federal government authority established in 1975 by the ''Australian Heritage Commission Act 1975'' as the first body to manage natural and cultural heritage in Australia until its de ...
in November 1997 and was permanently registered on 26 October 1999.[ On 22 April 1998 it was classified by the ]National Trust of Australia (WA)
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, with the City of Nedlands
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including it on their Municipal Heritage Inventory (adopted 27 April 1999). The hotel and bottle shop received interim listing on the State Register by the Heritage Council of Western Australia
The Heritage Council of Western Australia is the Government of Western Australia agency created to identify, conserve and promote places of cultural heritage significance in the state.
Prior to its creation, considerable variance in policy and ...
on 9 February 2016[ and was permanently registered on 30 August 2016.]
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External links
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Hotels established in 1935
Hotel buildings completed in 1935
Hotels in Perth, Western Australia
1935 establishments in Australia
State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Nedlands
Western Australian places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate
Nedlands, Western Australia