Royal Hotel is a heritage-listed

Australian pub An Australian pub or hotel is a public house or pub for short, in Australia, and is an establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. They may also provide other services, such as entertainment, meals and ...

at 59–61 Lambie Street,

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, Australia. It was built from 1858. It was added to the

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on 2 April 1999.

History

The original hotel was established in Lambie Street around 1858, less than twenty years after settlement in Cooma first commenced in 1839. Early settlement concentrated in and around Lambie Street which became the focal point of the community activity at the time. In 1986 several alterations were made to the exterior of the Royal Hotel. Stonework repair involved the steam cleaning and repoint of the front of the hotel. Replacement of lacework was undertaken with a loyalty to the original style. New gutters, downpipes and valley were installed. Sheets of iron for the roof on flat and toilet roof were used to restore the buildings original splendor. The following year the building underwent replacements to the roof, front and side gutters, the eves on the hotel and restaurant plus four new sheets of lacework for the restaurant. In 1988 a Permanent Conservation Order was placed on the Royal Hotel.Heritage Office, 1991

Description

The Royal Hotel is a large two storey hotel with outbuildings all constructed of dressed freestone and build in 1858. It is of simple Georgian style with a late Victorian cast iron decorated

veranda A veranda or verandah is a roofed, open-air gallery or porch, attached to the outside of a building. A veranda is often partly enclosed by a railing and frequently extends across the front and sides of the structure. Although the form ''veran ...

h and

balcony A balcony (from it, balcone, "scaffold") is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade, usually above the ground floor. Types The traditional Maltese balcony is ...

on the street corner and 4 large decorative

gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesth ...

s added to the early

hipped roof A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus, ...

. The two storey wing facing Lambie Street retains its original rolled iron roof and Georgian style 12 paned windows. The building is generally in good order apart from the main bar areas which have been altered in this century and would benefit from restoration. The Royal Hotel and its outbuildings consist of a stone terrace, a 2-storey house, 2 storey terrace, a brick cottage and semi detached cottages. As a group they collectively exhibit valuable

sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...

architecture which provided an outstanding entrance to one of the most interesting historical and architectural streets of Cooma. The semi detached cottages exist as a pair of Victorian semi with Gothic influences. They rest on stone

foundations Foundation may refer to: * Foundation (nonprofit), a type of charitable organization ** Foundation (United States law), a type of charitable organization in the U.S. ** Private foundation, a charitable organization that, while serving a good cause ...

having

bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room. Types Bay window is a generic term for all protruding window constructions, regardless of whether they are curved or angular, or r ...

fronts, scalloped

fretwork Fretwork is an interlaced decorative design that is either carved in low relief on a solid background, or cut out with a fretsaw, coping saw, jigsaw or scroll saw. Most fretwork patterns are geometric in design. The materials most commonly used ...

barges and timber and iron verandahs. Face brick walls relieved by painted stuccoed toothed

quoins Quoins ( or ) are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall. Some are structural, providing strength for a wall made with inferior stone or rubble, while others merely add aesthetic detail to a corner. According to one 19th century encyclopedia, t ...

, door and window reveals and bay window

spandrel A spandrel is a roughly triangular space, usually found in pairs, between the top of an arch and a rectangular frame; between the tops of two adjacent arches or one of the four spaces between a circle within a square. They are frequently fill ...

s. Verandah balustrading and stair

handrails A handrail is a rail that is designed to be grasped by the hand so as to provide safety or support. In Britain, handrails are referred to as banisters. Handrails are usually used to provide support for body or to hold clothings in a bathroom or ...

require restoration otherwise building is in near original condition. The brick cottage that also forms part of the outbuildings is a neat vernacular residence which preserves the 19th century integrity of the housing group between Tumut Street and the Highway. A number of significant elements of the original fabric are still intact.

Heritage listing

A fine two storey stone pub with original outbuildings of Georgian/Victorian character which occupies an important site on the

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and which makes a splendid entrance to Lambie Street and its other pleasant residential buildings. Royal Hotel was listed on the

on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales. This hotel is situated in the oldest part of Cooma and is recognised as following the tradition of several architecturally and historically interesting cottages from the 1850s to the later part of the nineteenth century. The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales. A fine two storey stone pub with original outbuildings of Georgian/ Victorian aesthetic. The place has strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group in New South Wales for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. The Royal Hotel conveys at once a sense of history of the development of domestic architecture of the area and a very handsome piece of streetscape. The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. It is one of the oldest buildings in the Cooma precinct.

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