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TATLER HOTEL

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CONSERVATION PLAN

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TATLER HOTEL

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CONSERVATION PLAN

Prepared For

Guy Fuller Cook Architects

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GODDEN MACKAY PTY LTD

October 1990

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INTRODUCTION

Preamble

Background

Study Area

Author Identification

Methodology

Acknowledgement

Report Format

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS

Significance

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IIISTORICAL OUTLINE

General

Brief History of the Site

The Tatler Hotel

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PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION ·

Form and Structure

Roof

George Street Facade

Northern Elevation

Interiors

CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS

The Australian ·Hotel

Sydney Hotels

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6.0 SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT

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. 7.0 STATEMENT OF CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE

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8.1 Constraints Arising from the Statement

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8.2 Constraints Arising from the Burra Charter

of Australia ICOMOS

8.3 Physical Condition

8.4 Statutory Controls

8.5 Client Requirements

8.6 Other Constraints

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9.1 Discussion

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A Burra Charter of Australia ICOMOS.

B Tatler Hotel, Historical Outline to 1902,

T. Kass, 1990.

C Tatler Hotel, Ownership Summary,

D.C. Research, 1990.

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D "Decoration and Glass" magazine, September 1939.

E Australian Heritage Commission - Register Entry.

F National Trust of Australia (NSW) -

Classification Report.

G Heritage Inventory for Central Sydney - Entry

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(i) Elevation, Robertson and Marks Pty Ltd, 1987.

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(iii) Saloon Bar, showing Proposed Alterations, 1959.

(iv) Third Floor Plan, Robertson and Marks Pty Ltd.

Draft City of Sydney LEP 99

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Preamble

Built in 1902, in the Federation Anglo-Dutch idiom, the Tatler

(formerly Crystal) Hotel, is a significant streetscape element, in

George Street, located between the Grace Bros (formerly Farmers)

building Market Street corner and the Dymocks building.· It is a

rare and significant example of Anglo-Dutch design in Sydney.

The ground floor George Street facade, with its polished red

granite and chrome banded "streamlining", is a remnant of 1930s

art deco functionalist design. Unfortunately the Tatler's front bar

and associated decoration, installed at the same time as the

ground street facade, has subsequently been removed.

The hotel is classified by the National Trust of Australia (NSW)

and has been nominated to the Register of National Estate.

Background

The Tatler Hotel is currently owned by Coles Myer Limited, the

owners of the Grace Bros (former Farmers) building immediately

adjacent to the south. At. present, the Janeway to the north of

the Tatler provides the major service access to the Grace Bros

complex. This access is under threat, and consideration is being

given to providing access to the Grace Bros site through the

Tatler Hotel site, following total or partial demolition. The Tatler

is identified as a heritage item in the Sydney Central Business

District Heritage Study completed in 1988 and has been included

in the Heritage Inventory of the Draft City of Sydney Local

Environmental Plan 99, Environmental Heritage. As a consequence

of its inclusion in the Draft LEP it is currently subject to a

conservation instrument, made by Sydney City Council under

delegated authority, pursuant to Section 130 of the New South

Wales Heritage Act.

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As an initial stage of the conservation planning process for the

entire Grace Bros site, and in order to resolve the current access

issue and to provide a basis for considering the desirability of

including the entire Tatter Hotel building within the Heritage

Schedule of LEP 99, Coles Myer has requested that a preliminary

. Conservation Plan, including assessment of significance and

development of policy, be prepared for the Tatler Hotel. This Plan

has been commissioned by Guy Fuller Cook Architects, on behalf

of Coles Myer. It is intended that this Conservation Plan for the

Tatler Hotel will, in time, become part of the overall

Conservation Plan for the Grace Bros site, which is also in

preparation.

Study Area

This report relates solely to the Tatler Hotel, 432-434 George

Street, Sydney. The location and extent of the hotel is shown on

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This report has been prepared by Richard Mackay, Director

Godden Mackay Pty Ltd. No new historical research has been

undertaken. Extensive use is made of the site history already

prepared by Terry Kass and subsequent research undertaken by

D. C. Research. Each of those reports should be considered as an

adjunct to this document. The physical description and analysis of

surviving fabric presented in Section 4 was written by Robert

Irving. The contextual analysis of the hotel was undertaken by

Miriam Stacy, in conjunction with Richard Mackay and Robert

Irving. · Assessment of significance was undertaken by Miriam

Stacy, Richard Mackay and Robert Irving. Photography was

undertaken by Richard Mackay. The report was typed by Carol

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This study follows the methodology outlined by J · S Kerr in The

Conservation Plan, (National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2nd Edition,

1985). The methodology and terminology are consistent with the

requirements of Australia ICOMOS (International Council on •

Monuments and Sites) in its charter for the conservation of places

of cultural significance; the Burra Charter. A copy of the Burra

Charter and its Guidelines are reproduced as Appendix A.

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A basic requirement of the Burra Charter is that any work on a •

place, which may be of heritage si'gnificance, should be preceded

by a professionally prepared study which considers historical and

documentary evidence, establishes the significance of the place,

and arrives at a policy consistent with its significance, the

structure's condition and the client's requirements. The

methodology follows the standard Conservation Plan format

advocated by 1. S. Kerr in The. Conservation Plan (1985) Second

Edition, National Trust of Australia (NSW). Terminology and

particularly the words place, cultural significance, conservation,

maintenance, preservation, restoration, reconstruction, adaptation,

and comp,atible use, follows the definitions provided by the Burra

Charter. The methodology is also consistent with that used in the

preparation of the Heritage Inventory for Central Sydney. A

multi-disciplinary team has been used. Consideration of the

significance of the site has included a documentary research '

(already completed), architectural assessment, and archaeological

assessment. The assessment categories adopted are the same as

those used in the Heritage Inventory for Central Sydney.

Acknowledgement

The study team gratefully acknowledges the assistance provided by

the following institutions and organisations:

Peter Fuller - Guy Fuller Cook Architects

Rod McGeogh - Corrs Australia Solicitors

Craig Walsh, Tony Paterson - Liquorland

Raben Footwear

Scott Cunliffe - Anglin and Associates

Kristina Luczak, Sharon Folkes - Sydney City Council

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specifically undertaken for this project. In relation to detailed

historical information, reference should be made to associated

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volumes prepared by Terry Kass and D.C. Research. Section 4

provides a physical description of the existing fabric. An

examination of the setting and context of the Tatler Hotel, in

relation to Australian and Sydney hotels, and in relation to its

streetscape position, is presented in Section 5. The significance

assessment itself is outlined in Section 6, and stated in Section 7.

This section includes a table showing individual elements of

significance. Following an analysis of constraints and issues

affecting options for the site (Section 8), a policy is discussed and

presented in Section 9. Section 10 proposes the Strategy for

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Significance

The Tatter Hotel stands on a site occupied since the early

Nineteenth Century and used for much of that century by light

industrial enterprises.

The hotel was built in 1902, presumably for John Bateman, at a

time of renewed optimism following Federation, in Federation

Anglo-Dutch style.

Following its acquisition by Tooth & Co in 1937, the hotel

underwent major refurbishment in 1938. The upper storey appears

to have been completely rebuilt at this time. The ground floor •

facade was replaced with a functionalist Art Deco streamlined

design in pink granite and a new moderne front bar featuring

chrome and glass was installed.

During the 1980s, many of the ground floor Art Deco elements

were removed and the space was converted for retail use. The

upper floors were left vacant, apparently unaltered, and have

remained vacant since.

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but only remnants of the Art Deco hotel entrance

one of only four Anglo-Dutch hotels remaining in

Sydney, and the only one to present a facade to one street only.

The facade is a contributing element to the associated Nineteenth

and early Twentieth Century streetscape.

In its three major periods of use, the hotel evidences important

phases of the history of the Sydney hotel; 1902 construction at . .

the time of Federatjon, 1938 refurbishment, 1980s decline.

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The Tatler Hotel is an item of environmental heritage as:

* it is a rare example of Federation Anglo-Dutch design and

one of only four hotels in this idiom remaining in Sydney;

* it evidences changing hotel use patterns in Sydney during the

Twentieth Century.

* it displays in its original construction and design, the renewed

optimism and revitalisation of the Australian economy and

building industry, at the time of Federation.

* its facade remains relatively intact and is an important

contributing element to diverse late Nineteenth and early - .

Twentieth Century streetscape in one of Sydney's main

streets.

* its facade includes elements of a now removed, 1938

refurbishment in typical Art Deco functionalist style.

Policy and Implementation

* The report analyses the constraints applying to this site which

result from:

- the Statement of Cultural Significance

the Burra Charter of Australia ICOMOS

the physical condition of the building

statutory controls

- client requirements •

* Potential conflict between the heritage value of the building,

its condition, and the operational needs of the owner is

resolved by a policy which advocates retention of as much of

the building fabric as is practicable, (and which may provide

for access to the entire Grace Bros complex through the

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It is acknowledged that the building may undergo substantial

adaptation.

The report identifies significant elements and attributes and

recommends which of these should be retained and conserved.

It is recommended that the building facade and an associated

substantial part of the building be retained and conserved in

accordance with the Burra Charter of Australia ICOMOS . •

As part of the policy implementation it is recommended that

the existing facade above awning level must be preserved,

restored and reconstructed.

Other significant elements including the awning, basement,

second and third floor interiors, remnant 1902 joinery and

remnant 1938 joinery are identified as warranting

consideration for retention and conservation.

The possibility of substantial alteration at ground floor level

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the introduction of new fabric, which will assist in retaining

identified significant attributes.

It is recommended that Coles Myer Ltd consider and adopt •

the proposed conservation policy, and that this policy form a

basis for future planning for the site.

Continued statutory protection, through inclusion iri the

Heritage Schedule of Draft LEP 99, is advocated. Once the

LEP is gazetted, it is recommended that the existing order

made pursuant to Section 130 of the New South Wales

Heritage Act be lifted .

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If subsurface features are to be disturbed, a baseline

archaeological assessment is required in accordance with the

provisions of Draft LEP 99. This assessment would determine

the probable nature and extent of any archaeological features

and the need for additional archaeological monitoring or

excavation. {It is understood that the basement of most of

the site sits on bedrock and that the eastern part is the only

likely area of archaeological interest).

It is recommended that development consent should be sought

on the basis that the building facade and associated fabric •

will be retained, and that access to the Grace Bros site may

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General

Section 3.2 below is quoted directly from a report prepared by

Terry Kass, for Guy Fuller Cook Pty Ltd. The full Kass report is

included as Appendix B.

Section 3.3 is largely based upon information searched by Design

Collaborative Pty Ltd. Appendix C includes an extract from a

report prepared by Design Collaborative for Coles Myer Limited in

August 1990.

The scope of this report has not included additional historical

research.

Brief History of the Site

"The subject site was held prior to 1810 by 'Francis

McKewin'. The identity of this individual has not yet

been precisely ascertained. He sold the site to John

Holdsworth in that year. There were at least two persons

with the name, john Holdsworth, one a convict and the

other a sergeant in the garrison who mainly resided at

Parramatta later in the decade. 1 It has not yet been

ascertained which of these was the landholder involved

with this property.

The Town of Sydney in vicinity of this allotment had been

built upon quite early and George Street was shown as a

continuous range of buildings here on Meehan's 1807 map.

[Editorial Note: The site appears to be a block further

south than the location indicated on the extract from the

Meehan Plan in Appendix B). By the 1830s, it had

become a most prestigious address with many. of the most

notable of Sydney's businesses located there. One account

described how that part of George Street was 'occupied

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private residences, as well as hotels, shops, and other

places for supplying the public with an equivalent for

their surplus cash'. 2 Immediately north of the site was

the Royal Hotel, which was not only a high class hotel,

but, under the proprietor, Barnett Levey, became the

venue of some of the earliest theatrical performances in

Sydney.3

In 1824, James Blanch, a former convict, acquired formal

title to the allotment which is the subject of this study.

He may have already been occupying the premises, since

he was listed as living in George Street at an earlier

date. Blanch established a business as a 'mathematical

instrument maker'.

tech' instruments of

His business focussed on the '.high­

the 1820s and 1830s, clocks, watches,

weights and measures, chronometers and sextants. His

business was highly technical and very unusual in a colony

whose industry was primarily still engaged in the simple

processing of primary products. On this site, he built up

an array of boilers, forges, moulding rooms, pattern shops

and smithies which made his Town Allotment into a

microcosm of the Industrial Revolution then changing the

face of Britain.

Blanch acquired a significant role in the business of

Sydney, becoming a prominent and successful businessman

as well as one of its most notable manufacturers. A

combination of circumstances in the late 1830s and early

1840s caused the collapse of the house of Blanch. A

substantial mortgage remained unpaid, his works were

damaged by a nearby fire, and his own death in 1841,

combined with a severe depression meant that his

enterprise was taken over by the Russell Brothers who

later became the renowned engineering firm of P N

Russell and Co. His Town allotment was also subdivided

and sold by the mortgagee.

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Subsequently, the part of his allotment which is the

subject of this study remained in the hands of the same

family for the rest of the century. They remained at

arm's length from the property and leased it out to a

variety of occupiers, including a grocer and jeweller, but

later to a series of publicans, the most notable of whom

appears to have been John Bateman, for whom the Tatler

Hotel appears to have been erected."

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The Tatler Hotel

The original Tatler Hotel building appears to have been

constructed as the 'Crystal Hotel' for John Bateman in 1901-02.4

The site was leasehold land, leased by Bateman for 21 years from

John McLaughlin and Cecily McQuade. 5 Little information is

available about the early occupation and operation of the hotel,

other than a name change which saw it become 'Bateman's Hotel'

from 1904, until reverting to become the 'Crystal' again in 1928.

In 1918 Edmund R.E. Resch became the official proprietor. 6

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Limited in 1921. was

1931 which purchased the property

The hotel remained the property of Tooth and Co until its sale to

Nicopal Pty Ltd (August 1981); and subsequent resale to Myer

NSW (September 1986). 8 During the period of the Reschs and

Tooth and Co ownership, there have bee~ sixteen licencees, who

are listed in Appendix C.

The most significant physical event in the hotel's history since

construction, was a substantial refurbishment undertaken in 1938.

This work included complete rebuilding of the third floor and

major renovations at ground level, with a new pink granite Art

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chronicled in a contemporary magazine, 'Decoration and Glass':

"Entry to the public bar is direct from the street

pavement. Here the floor outside the counter is rubber .

covered, the rubber being in an intricate pattern featuring

six colours. The walls are tiled in buff shades, with red

relieving bands and textured surface to the upper portion.

Important in the latter are the panels of Insulux glass

bricks which carry light from the passage, which in turn

is lighted in the same way from the side lane.

The island counter is planned with two semi-circular ends '

and the front is tiled to harmonise with the walls. The

step, which replaced the old type foot rail, is tiled. The

deep nosing is in stainless steel.

There is a canopy over the counter, with rounded ends to

maintain the line. The suspensions are completely

enclosed and finished with moderne fluted glass, satin

finished, bent at the front. Concealed lighting is within

the suspensions and produced the effect of the canopy

being suspended on columns of light.

Glass is used on the canopy face and is ornamented with •

horizontal lines in grave. Mirror glass is also used

effectively to form a counter screen around the cash • register.

Modern light fittings are suspended from the beamed

ceiling, which is treated plainly. Fittings are in the form

of spheres of glass on chromium suspensions." 11 9.

(A· copy of the full article is reproduced as Appendix D).

The hotel appears to have continued in use until circa 1983. In

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"With its original fixtures and features, the Tatler

illustrates an important era in Sydney's architecture:

when streamlined forms and 'new' machine finished •

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found in ephemeral interiors like the Tatler, which with

its original elements and virtually intact condition, is an

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1. General Musters of New South Wales Norfolk Island and

Van Dieman's Land, 1811, Sydney, 1987, No 2844; Col

Sec Indexes at A. 0.

2. J. Maclehose, Picture of Sydney and Strangers' Guide in

N.S. W. for 1839, p.68. ·

3. J. Maclehose, Picture of Sydney p. 130.

4. Sands Directories, Tatler Hotel, Historical Documentation

on ownership, licencees, occupants and associated

background, 1901-1986. Report prepared by D.C.

Research, August 1990.

5. D.C. Research, op. cit.

6. Primary Application No. 20660.

6. D.C. Research, op. cit.

8. ibid.

9. Decoration and Glass Magazine, September 1939.

10. National Trust of Australia (NSW) Tatler Hotel.

Classification Repqrt.

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Form and Structure

The Tatler Hotel is a four storey building, four bays wide,

fronting two George Street blocks, between the larger Grace Bros

(Farmers) Building to the south an a laneway adjacent to the

Dymocks Building to the north.

As evidenced in the laneway elevation, the structure has a three

bay four storey form at the George Street end, followed by a

transverse gabled section, and a three storey section, (with

basement below) at the eastern .end. (Refer to Diagram (i)

Appendix H).

A rectangular lightwell, which formerly extended along two thirds

of the central portion of the southern wall, is now bricked up and

roofed.

The structure is supported by load bearing brick walls on all sides

and appears to have a concrete floor at ground level with timber

floors above. The basement features a rectangular network of

structural segmental arches.

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The building has a corrugated iron roof, in three sections; a

hipped skillion draining to a box gutter behind the laneway

parapet, a transverse gabled section, and another skillion at the

rear. (Fig 4). The lightwell roof, a later addition, is also skillion

corrugated iron with rat wire eaves. To the east of the gable •

two small structures extend above the main roof level, providing

access from the main and service stairways. The southern

parapet is sheathed in sheet metal. A clothesline and timber

decking extends between them. There are the remains of a water

tank stand above the south eastern corner of the building.

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The building is four storeys high including the street level storey.

The footpath awning, which was part of the 1938 refurbishment, is

suspended by heavy wrought iron suspension bars from the cornice

above the first floor level. Below the awning is the 1930s

treatment by Cyril Ruwald. , Above the awning the three storeys

have also suffered minor alterations, although the first and second '

floors are probably 1902 original. The fourth floor has its

assemblage of windows surmounted by three shell parapet

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The design of the hotel front facade of 1938 is based on the

original structural format. The treatment of the centre bay has

been altered in recent years. Photographs show that in the 1930s

it had a large, curved display window and polished granite

stallboard, flanked by two glazed doors leading to a Bottle

Department. (Fig 6). The two side bays, now incorporating retail •

shop entrances, echo the bays above. The awning has a 1930s

Wunderlich pressed metal ceiling in largely original condition.

There is no sign of any rust, which suggests that it is pressed

zinc and not pressed steel. (Fig 7). The fasCia of the awning

originally had a recessed panel bearing the name of the hotel in

block letters.

The facade itself, although covered partially now by signs and

merchandise, is enframed by polished granite. · On the south end,

where it abuts the Grace Bros building, it comes to a sharp end.

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joints, the perpends, are coloured to match the granite, whereas

the horizontal joints, which are wider, have been lined with

stainless steel strips. Some of the strips are missing. (Fig 8).

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The thresholds to the two doorways, one each side, are also

polished granite. It is difficult to discern how much of the

joinery treatment is original. The double doors on each side in

the side bays are timber and glazed. They have stainless steel

kick plates and double bar push bars with door closers. The 1938

magazine description described grave glass in them. The glass is

now replaced with plain glazing. The architraves and mouldings

are simple bull-nose treatment around the doors and appear to be

original. (Fig 9). The centre bay is all renewed. It is a single

sheet of plate glass in a simple frame which is probably not

original. At present the glazing extends over the face of the

granite walling.

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alignment as the original which carried the words "The Tatler

Hotel11 in 1930's fine sans serif lettering equal to the full height

of a granite facing block course, and backed by closely spaced

strips of stainless steel.

First Floor

Above the footpath awning, the first and second floors are treated

as four bays. On the first floor level are four identical large

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windows. They now have modern joinery and window frames

above a projecting cornice at sill level. The centre pier that

divides the windows into two pairs of one brick width, while the

· -·· other four piers are a brick and a half wide. This treatment is

customary in the Anglo-Dutch style. The windows on the first

floor level are surmounted by stilted semi-circular arches with

prominent console-shaped keys and plain re.ctangular finished

voussoirs between the key and the abutments of the arches. The

semi-circular spandrels are filled with shell motifs in stucco.

They are very handsome and very refined. The base of the semi­

circular shells appears to have been modified by the insertion of a

ventilation device. In the centre pier, just above the arch spring

line, is a metal medallion flange plate which appears to have been

one of those that supported overhead electric tramway wires in

George Street.

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are four, and the centre of the facade is marked by a narrow

pier: the side piers being a brick and a half, and the centre piers

only one brick wide. The windows have cross mullions, with the •

transom about three quarters of the way up. At that level the

heads of the windows form the architrave of a cornice treatment

and the piers have composite capitals. Between the capitals and

over the windows are segmental arch motifs. There is a narrow

moulded frieze treatment above, and above that again is an

extension of the same frieze. The piers above the capitals

become pilasters and have bulging frieze motifs. They are

surmounted by a cornice which is also stucco. The cornice motif

steps out over the piers and the lowest moulding is embellished

with the floral devices.

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Above the second floor the central pier terminates in a reverse

console which is at sill level of the centre window of the topmost •

floor. The fourth storey (third floor) has three bays, not four.

The side bays continue upwards at the same width as the bays on

the floors below, but the centre bay becomes double width. The

window in the centre has a heavy mullion treatment with a

transom two thirds of the way up, and a very steep narrow

pediment above the centre of its three lights. Although the

windows of the side bays have 1930s joinery, the rectangular

openings are original. The lintels of those windows are treated as

cornice arrangements.

The piers, which are now four in number, extend up to the

springing line of the parapet motifs and terminate in stucco balls. ,

The two side windows have stepped parapet motifs, each

surmounted by a semi-circular shell device, with consoles in the

steps. The centre device continues upwards much higher with a

very prominent semi-circular shell treatment below which is a

bulbous moulded frieze that has the date "1902" - "19" on one

side of a short central pier and "02" on the other side. The

central pier continues the motifs from the lower floors over the

unusual steep central pediment, above the central window. The .

design is very idiosyncratic but very much in the nature of the

Anglo-Dutch style in New South Wales. It is evident that the

brickwork behind the three stepped parapet motifs was added later

and that the stepped Dutch gabled parapets would have been free­

standing. The integrity of the design is diminished somewhat by

that addition, which is believed to be part of the 1938

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Western Section

The Northern elevation of the Tatler Hotel shows evidence of

major changes since its construction. The most obvious piece of

alteration work presumably belongs to the 1938 campaign when

the western section of the building, which coincided with the

depth of the 1938 bar, was substantially reworked. What are now

the westernmost three bays have been completely rebuilt. All the

fenestration seems to be 1930s, including the ground floor and

first floor treatment of the three wide windows. It appears from

their dimensions that they are separated by metal mullions, but as

they are integral with the spandrels and sills it is impossible to

determine. Each window has three lights formed of glass blocks.

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width but not the same height, divided again into three lights.

Here the joinery is all timber and the windows are double-hung,

each sash having a horizontal glazing bar dividing it into two

panes. The lintels all appear to be cement rendered, and from

the look of their discontinuity they are encased steel or

reinforced concrete. (Fig 12). In this western section, the wall

continues up as a parapet which is the same height as the parapet

behind the stepped gable treatment of the George Street facade.

The brickwork of this western section is very rough and it appears

that the northern wall has been substantially rebuilt.

Centre Section

The central section of the northern wall is surmounted by a

parapeted gable with sandstone copings. Below that, there are

three separate third floor windows, the centre one wider, all of

them under flat segmental arches. The centre opening with bull­

nosed reveals was originally a loading door. The outline of a

stone threshold is visible at floor level. Below that there are

only two windows and below that again two windows. At ground •

floor level the ·ensemble consists of a wide doorway with top light

and two narrower windows. All of those ground floor items have

steep sloping bull-nose sills which appear to match the sills of the

windows of the third and second floors, but not those of the first

floor. (Fig 13).

The joinery in all of these windows appears to be new, i.e. 1930s

rather than 1902. The ground floor door appears to have been a

loading door, hence its bull nose reveals. Its joinery was modified

in the 1930s. All of the windows in this gable arrangement are

flat segmental arch treatments, although on the ground floor and

first floor they are relieving arches only. The windows on the

first floor have been widened; the relieving segmental arches still

evident above them are narrow, (i.e. the same width as the other

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The top floor openings have flat segmental arches.

On the first floor the windows have been altered, presumably in

the 1930s. Traces of flat segmental arches and infill according

with the windows on the top floor are visible. (Fig 14). On the

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openings that were originally crowned by semi-circular three ring

arches. Now they are merely rectangular joinery frames of .

-·timber. There is a basement in this section of the building, made

possible because of the slope of the land. It has double entrance

doors below the centre of three former semi-circular window

treatments. At basement level on each side of that double door

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Well below ground floor level at this point the lane wall is

stuccoed in a line which steps downwards. At the extreme east

end there is a further bay. It projects a brick and a half up to

the level of the eastern section described above. Otherwise it is

not distinctive, except at ground floor level where there was

previously an arrangement of three windows, the flat segmental

arches of which have been filled in and replaced with one

rectangular window that matches the windows at ground floor ·

level in the adjacent section. What was an open space between

the end of the Tatter building and. the Grace Bros building now

has a crane bay.

Brickwork

The northern elevation, like the George Street facade, is built in

English bond brickwork. Although the bond appears to be the

same everywhere except for small sections that obviously have

been filled in and. altered, the texture of the brickwork is not at

all even. In the western section of the facade the work is rough.

The pointing of the joints has not been done well. At the eastern

end the work is of much higher quality: the joints have been

much more carefully made and it has a more refined character.

The difference reinforces the likelihood that the whole of this

facade has been significantly altered. •

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Ground Floor

This space is now divided into two separate tenancies. The

original structural bays are evident but virtually all traces of the

original decorative treatment have given way to suspended

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At first floor level the structure is three bays in width, the

centre bay being double the width of the side bays. At the

western end the window arrangemen.t facing north has triple lights

of glass bricks surmounted by louvres. (Fig 15). These occupy

the three longitudinal bays which form a space three bays wide

and three bays deep. None of the original column elements

remain. No early finishes are evident. The joinery in the front

windows and the west windows is not original, though the

architraves may be original, The window frames and sashes are

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The rear wall at this first floor· section has a doorway that leads

into an additional room on the south side. This space, formerly

occupied by the original staircase, has a recently bricked up

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lintel on the north side that may have been over a doorway that

led into a section which is not accessible at this level. Traces of

the original stair, in the form of balustrading outlines, are evident

on two of the walls. The present staircase up to this level is a

steel stair, obviously recent. That first floor area is occupied by

Raben Footwear which has the southern tenancy at the west end

of the building. The northern tenancy is Liquorland which is the

narrower t.enancy.

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The Liquorland · area extends three bays from •

Second and Third Floors

The planning of the second and third floors, presumably

residential, was such that there was a· central passage which in

fact was slightly· off centre, making the space on the north side

bigger than on the south. (Refer Plan (iv) in Appendix H). That

was because of the insertion of a lightwell on the south side

which extended from the front rooms back almost the full length

of the building. On the south, with small windows opening into

the lightwell, there was a bathroom on each floor. The two

bathrooms still bear their 1938 characteristics of tiled floors and

porcelain enamelled baths. (Fig 16).

Generally the main rooms faced north with windows opening onto

the lane and the service rooms faced south with windows opening

onto the lightwell, except for the front rooms overlooking George

Street. The lightwell does not now function; all the windows • that faced onto it have been bricked up and there is a roof over

it. The lightwell is now used to house an air conditioning plant.

. On the second floor level the main ( 1938) staircase, which has

now gone at first floor level, is evident. (Fig 17). It is an open

staircase with a central well. It is possible that it was made so

open because of the intention to insert an elevator, a suggestion

reinforced by the fact that the stair is narrow. It is described in

a contemporary magazine article as being easy to ascend, as

though having a fairly low slope, but that is not the case. The

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balustrading. At its upper level the main stair has a clerestory

light over it, which has been compromised by the construction of

a skillion roof. At the top level there is an additional short

staircase which leads up to roof level of the eastern section of

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The remaining sections of a rear service stair date from 1902. It

is a steep stair with timber construction, nosed treads, turned

balusters and a moulded handrail. There is a pressed metal soffit.

It is a simple dogleg stair ascending again from first to third

floor. How much of its original fabric • remams •

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The second floor is arranged as a series of rooms about a central, •

offset corridor. The floor includes both original and introduced •

materials. There is one 1938 fireplace in what was presumably a

sitting room or a bedroom fronting George Street, which is faced

with cream tapestry heeler bricks and original 1902 skirting boards

and architruves. (Fig 19). The window joinery other than that

dates from 1938. The other interesting feature is that the doors

are simple Victorian period four punel doors, rather than more

decorative Federation perJod multi-panelled; this is · an unusual

characteristic. (Fig 20). There are a number of 1930s light

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1930s patterns.

Basement

The basement is entered via a concrete stairway at the eastern

end of the northern ground floor tenancy, and via a set of double

doors in the northern laneway wall. There are a series of

segmental brick structural arches supporting the structure of the

ground floor above. (Fig 23). An early cold store features an

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The Australian Pub

The Australian Pub has made a unique contribution throughout

every phase of Australia's cultural growth and development.

Freeland, in the introduction to his book The Australian Pub,

states that "the pub is one of the most socially significant,

historically valuable, architecturally interesting, and colourful

features of Australian society."

As we know it, the Australian pub came from a fusion of two

distinct English models, the inn and the public house. The inn's

prime purpose was to cater to the needs of the traveller,

providing food, accommodation and drink as a minor part of the

service. The public house had two offshoots, the tavern which

sold spirits and the alehouse which sold beer. The purpose of the

public house was to sell liquor exclusively, no accommodation was

provided, it catered to the needs of the local residential

community.

The distinctive character of the Australian pub was formed within

a few year~ of settlement. It was essentially a drinking house for

locals and travellers with food and accommodation provided.

The first penal settlement at Sydney Cove saw the introduction of

alcohol, which was generated out of the desire of the convicts

and officers to escape the misery of their condition and the new

unforgiving and foreign land. Illicit taverns were set up in huts

around the camp. By the end of the first decade alehouses and

taverns had forced themselves into official recognition if not

respectability.

The arrival of free settlers and the increase in emancipated

convicts swelled the growing colony. Hotel licences were

introduced to control the standard of hotel establishments. To

attract clientele a better class of innkeeper offered improved

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services, fine foods, wine and accommodation, to please the free

settlers and newly prosperous immigrants. Pubs were recognised

as the community heart and centres for relaxation and

entertainment.

. The Australian colonial architectural style was based on the

English country Georgian style, with symmetrical elevations,

hipped roof and brick used as the main building material.

By the 1840s the Australian colony had begun to shed its colonial

convict and military character. Overseas architectural trends in

Europe and America influenced the development of the Victorian

style. This influence, combined with the 1837 building regulations

and competition between hotels, further increased the number of

hotels and the quality of their architectural styling and finishes.

Winning the favour of the customer was all important, especially

in Sydney where new arrivals entered the country, and to where

the prosperous men of the land returned for business and

recreation. All of the best sites in town were occupied by hotels.

Corner sited pubs were popular for attracting the passing trade,

those hotels specialising in offering high class accommodation

were typically located on high land with a view.

The small intimate colonial inns were no longer adequate in size

or standards or service provided. Bigger, more impersonal hotels

were erected in line with the town's up and coming image. They

reflected Sydney's emerging town status.

As settlements in Sydney and Hobart became established, explorers

and pioneers began to open up greater areas of the continent for

the settlement of towns and grazing land. Wayside inns sprang up

on travellers' routes between Sydney and Goulburn and Sydney and

Bathurst, to name a few.

Not surprisingly, hotel standards in Sydney were far superior to - -

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attention than the niceties of the more advanced towns. Until

the 1850s and the gold rush at places like Bendigo and Ballarat,

Sydney was the only town with pretensions of escaping the

colonial primitiveness.

The introduction of the railways in the mid 1850s saw great

changes in hotels in Victorian Australia. Between 1870 and 1930

hotels relied heavily on overnight trade generated by Sydney and

Melbourne business travellers. -

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Out of the excitement and upheaval of the g?ld rush arose a new i

social order, the bourgeois class. With roots lin commerce and the

cities they became the dominating feature of Australian society

and held sway on widely accepted values and \standards.

Ever-spiralling expectations of hotel patrons and society in general

reflected the expansive Victorian attitudes. After the 1860s gold

strikes, the increase in the number and size of hotels was the

greatest ever seen in Australian history. To build and stock

hotels to the day's standards was frequently beyond the financial

ability of the publican. The breweries aided financially by

supplying two thirds of the required capital, Unfortunately the

aspiring licencee then found himself a minority partner in his own

hotel business.

The last 20 years of the Nineteenth Century saw the dizzy

heights and crashing economic depression of the late Victorian era

and the architectural styling and building frenzy to match.

Residential hotels, with the introduction of the hydraulic passenger

lift scaled seven to eight storeys, limited only by the load-bearing

capabilities of the masonry construction material of the time.

This late Victorian period was to be the climax in hotel

development in Australia. In .these affluent times the hotel styles

were ostentatious, reflecting the aesthetic tastes of the boom

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times. Melbourne and Sydney competed with each other to reign

supreme as the most advanced city in Australia, boasting

flamboyant and grand hotels.

The pub story for the first 70 years of settlement centred on

Sydney and Hobart. Through the 1850-60s the emphasis focused

on Melbourne during the gold rush; the 1870-80s saw the switch

to the commercial city centres of Sydney, Melbourne and

Brisbane; then from 1890-1910 the emphasis went exclusively to

Western Australia and the new prosperity found in local gold.

The downturn in the economy in 1893 was accelerated after World

War I. The character of the pubs reflected this change with the

introduction of the 6 pm closing time. Pubs were no longer the

centres of entertainment and business, their place as the focal

heart of the community· was now lost.

Until the 1900s hotels had occupied most corner sites on city

blocks. Now these sites were sought after and acquired by the

banks and insurance companies.

1901 saw the birth of the Federation of Australia and the surge •

of national pride and faith in the lucky country. Many businesses

. had grown from small family concerns to large corporations

networked across the nation. This increased the need for travel

and call on casual hotel accommodation in the cities, especially in

Sydney and Melbourne.

Architectural styles paralleled this new age and wave of

Australian patriotism. Popular taste, dissatisfied with the falsity

and extremity of the late Victorian styles,· now favoured the more

honest Federation styles, with face brick and less embellishment

with simplified plaster details· and trim.

From 1920-25 the pub saw an increase in the public bar service

area which now occupied most of the ground floor and a

diminishing need for accommodation. Most hotels underwent

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regenerate hotel custom.

By 1936 the worst of the inter-war depression had passed, building

was cheaper now than it had been since 1870. Funded mainly by

the breweries, construction of new hotels and major alterations •

and refurbishments of existing hotels were undertaken. In the

heart of the city old hotels were demolished to make way for

contemporary replacements.

Post World War II hotels differed little from pre-war. The

revolution in structure and attitude came in 1955 with the uprise

of the motor car and the new-found freedom of movement in

society. This was the impetus for the building of the first car

orientated motel, the tourist hotel and the drive-in bottleshop.

The Australian hotel tradition continues today as a relevant

contribution to society. Present day forms echo the original

Australian hotels; the club is the old tavern, the corner pub with

unused accommodation is the alehouse, the motel with bedrooms

and common dining room is the wayside inn and the international

hotel is the old town inn. '

Sydney Hotels

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This section of the report outlines and briefly discusses pre-1940

hotels, and cites examples of hotels which still remain in Sydney •

today.

Most remaining hotels in Sydney date from the mid to late

Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. Few hotels have

survived as intact examples of their original style, most have

undergone alterations and refurbishments in the popular

architectural style of the time.

Sydney was the gateway to the rest of Australia, immigrants

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commercial centre with many fine and substantial buildings.

By 1840 Sydney was about to undergo a transformation, with the

introduction of building codes and regulations and the early

Victorian architectural style, strongly influenced by overseas

trends.

Local sandstone was used extensively at this time. Dating from

the 1840s, the Hero of Waterloo and Lord Nelson Hotels in Millers

Point are the earliest surviving hotels extant in Sydney.

Sydney's intimate colonial inns were no longer in step with

-Sydney's emerging character, in size or service provided.

Standards demanded by the general public gave rise to •

expectations of higher quality hotel accommodation and services

superior to anything seen in Sydney before.

impersonal hotels such as the Royal in George

Bigger, more

Street and the

Petty's Hotel, both now demolished, reflected the emerging status

and ambition of the town. •

The introduction of the railways in the mid 1850s was responsible

for the revolution in hotel standards. With the growth of

business, the nation saw increasing necessity for inter city travel,

especially between Sydney and Melbourne. Mid Victorian hotels

dating from the 1850-60s remaining in Sydney today include the

Occidental Hotel in York Street, The Paragon Hotel in Alfred

Street and the Shipwrights Arms, now the Old Push Restaurant, in

George Street, The Rocks. All of these have been altered.

The climax in grand hotels in Sydney coincided with the

culmination of the late Victorian era. The most flamboyant hotel,

the Australia Hotel, in Martin Place, opened in 1891, as a bid to

rival any contemporary Melbourne hotels. Other grand Sydney

hotels of this time included the Metropole Hotel and the Sydney

Hotel. All of these have now gone.

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At the turn of the century and the Federation of Australia in

1901, there was a surge of patriotism and faith in the lucky

country. Federation was a time of renewed economic prosperity

which stimulated construction of new commercial developments

within the commercial centre of Sydney.

Hotels built at this time served· the growing demand for

accommodation of business, domestic and international travellers.

A break from the architectural style of the last century was

encouraged by the new national pride which encouraged the return

to a more honest style of building design and decoration, using

face brick and simplified decorative plaster trim.

The impact of the Federation styles still influences the streets of

Sydney today. Many variations of the-Ji:edet:.a_tion style pub . ~.

survive including the Big House Hote and Evening Star Hotel in

Sussex StreetGnd the @oyal George Hot~hn Elizabeth Street. .

Federation Anglo-Dutch architectural style does not appear to

have been extensively used in Sydney. Today, the Tatler Hotel in

George Street is one of only four hotels remaining in this style,

the other three being the Crown Hotel in Elizabeth Street, Foster

Inn in Clarence Street and Agincourt Hotel in George Street.

(Figs 24, 25, 26). The Tatler is the only one of the four which

presents a facade to a single street. •

The Tatter utilises the Anglo-Dutch idiom in a strict literal

interpretation, whereas the other three hotels adopt a more free­

form approach.

During the 1920s and 1930s emphasis moved away from the

provision of accommodation and begari to concentrate on the

enlargement and improvement of the ground floor public bar

areas.

By the end of the 1930s, the worst of the depression had passed,

building was cheaper and publicans, largely funded by the

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breweries, undertook major hotel renovations in the current Art

Deco functionalist style or demolished and erected new hotels on

the same sites. Sydney hotel examples include the Criterion

Hotel in Pitt Street, the Grand Hotel in Hunter Street and the

Harbour View Hotel in Millers P-oint.

The majority of hotels remaining in Sydney today are either

originally mid or late Victorian, Federation or Art Deco

functionalist in style. Few intact examples of the original

architectural style remain, many have undergone major

refurbishments during this century to modernise the hotel and

feature the architectural style popular at that time.

Streetscape

The Tatler Hotel is located on George Street between Market and

King Streets, in the heart of Sydney's commercial district. The

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and banking chambers. (Fig 27).

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The George Street streetscape value lies mainly in the diversity

and continuity of notable architectural styles, including buildings •

from the late Victorian and Federation periods and the 1930s.

Owing to the continuous awning cover, the pedestrian can best

appreciate the streetscape from viewing the facades individually

from the opposite sides of the street, or looking obliquely along

George Street.

The streetscape in the immediate vicinity of the Tatler Hotel

features a number of significant heritage buildings. The array of

architectural styles, proportions, scale and details of adjoining

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Anglo-Dutch facade is unique. It is sited between two substantial

12 storey buildings, namely Dymocks, built in 1927 and Grace Bros

dating from the 1930s. (Fig 28). On the opposite side of George

Street are two more 1930s blocks, on the corner is the

Commonwealth Banking Chambers and adjacent is BBC Hardware.

Other Federation buildings in this section of George Street include

McDonalds, and the eight storey Gibb & Beeman building.

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Tatler Hotel, between Dymocks

Grace Bros Building (right) .

Building (left) and

Victorian buildings of note include Darrell Lea on the corner of

King and George Streets, the Strand Arcade, and the Queen •

Victoria Building on the Market Street corner of George Street.

More recent infill dating from the 1960-80s completes the picture,

the most notable being the Mid City Centre.

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In general the Victorian buildings are two to three storeys in

height and have heavily decorated rendered facades. An exception

is the Strand Arcade which is significantly taller. The Federation

buildings occupy similar narrow allotments, but feature facades of

face brick and vary from four to eight storeys. The later 1930s

buildings are far more imposing, being constructed with sandstone •

facings dn amalgamated building sites and of twelve storeys in

height.

At ground floor level the majority of building shopfronts have

been refurbished in later architectural styles, typically unrelated

to the original building design. The Art Deco ground floor

shopfront of the Tatler Hotel in the Art Deco style is unique,

within its surrounding George Street context. Other shopfronts of

significance include Dymocks, the Strand Arcade and McDonalds.

The streetscape in the immediate vicinity of the Tatler Hotel is

comprised mostly of late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century

buildings, which individually and collectively are of architectural

and streetscape significance. The Tatler Hotel makes a

contribution to this streetscape, being the only Federation Anglo­

Dutch building and the only one with an Art Deco shopfront at

ground level.

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General •

The New South Wales Department of Planning defines heritage

significance as historical, scientific, cultural, social, archaeological,

architectural, natural or aesthetic significance. This definition is

broadly consistent with the New South Wales Heritage Act and

with definitions used by other organisations, including the

Australian Heritage. Commission, the National Trust of Australia

and Australia ICOMOS. Most approaches to significance

assessment emphasise the value of an item to future generations,

as well as to the present community.

The terms "Cultural Significance" and "Heritage Value" embrace

the concept of a place or item having an intrinsic value which

cannot be expressed solely in financial terms. Assessment of

cultural significance endeavours to establish why a place or item •

is considered important and is valued by the community. Cultural

significance is embodied in the fabric of a place, (including its

setting and relationship to other items), the records associated ,

with the place, and the response that the place evokes in the

community or individuals to whom it is important. Assessment of

cultural significance relies on an understanding and analysis of

these values derived from consideration of the historical context

of a place or item, the way in which its extant fabric

demonstrates its historic use or process, its associations and its

formal or aesthetic qualities. An understanding of an item's

historical context and examination of its physical evidence are

therefore the key components of significance assessment.

Criteria

Assessment

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The Burra Charter of Australia ICOMOS breaks

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Australia NSW, Second Edition, 1985) considers the concept of

cultural significance according to three qualities; the ability of a

place to demonstrate a process, event, custom or style,

associational (historic) links for which there may or may not be

surviving evidence, and formal or aesthetic qualities.

The NSW Department of Planning has recently published Heritage

Assessment Guidelines (Department of Planning Sydney 1990).

These guidelines advocate a staged assessment process. Stage 1 is

the investigation of the range of values under headings such as:

* historic

* scientific

* cultural

* social

* archaeological

* architectural

* aesthetic •

* natural

* aboriginal

Stage 2 is interpretation of the comparative value of the item • I.e.:

* rarity

* group value

* landmark value

* representative value

* integrity

The third stage involves judgement of the significance of the item

in terms of its:

* local heritage conservation value

* regional heritage conservation value

* state heritage conservation value

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(A fourth stage, relating to appropriate management strategies, is

also outlined).

Any of these approaches, or other approaches, provide useful

frameworks within which significance can be assessed. However,

it is not the format of the information but rather its content

which is important. It is also important that those making the

assessment have sufficient knowledge of the sites and sufficient

information available to allow comparative judgement to be made.

A recent study completed by Domicelj for the NSW Department

of Planning considered the criteria for significance assessment in

relation to the current development of a NSW State Heritage

Inventory. Domicelj analysed the criteria currently used by the

Australian Heritage Commission, in conjunction with the headings

and values defined by the NSW Department of Planning.

Domicelj's report defines the following criteria:

Group 1: Nature of Significance •

Criterion 1 (history) - significant in the evolution and pattern of

the history of New South Wales.

Criterion 2 (aesthetic) - significant in possessing, or contributing .

to, creative or technical accomplishment in New South Wales .

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Criterion 3 (social) - significant through association with a

community in New South Wales for social, cultural or spiritual

reasons.

Criterion 4 (scientific) - significant for the potential to yield

information contributing to an understanding of the history of New

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Criterion 5 (other) - significant for some other value to past,

present or future generations in New South Wales.

Group 2: . Degree of Significance

Criterion 6 (rare) - significant in possessing rare, endangered or

uncommon aspects of the history of New South Wales.

Criterion 7 (representative) - significant in demonstrating the

characteristics of a class of cultural places or environments in

New South Wales.

Criterion 8 (associative) - significant for association with people,

activities, phases or events in the evolution of New South Wales.

Categories

As the primary purpose of this study is to establish the

significance of the Tatler Hotel and the merits of its inclusion in

the Heritage Inventory for Central Sydney, the categories

developed in that study will be used as the basis for presenting

the site's significance. The categories (and the criteria they

encompass) are:

History;

Architecture

(historic, social, cultural;

Criteria 1, 3, 6, 7, 8).

(aesthetic, architectural, technical;

Criteria 2, 6, 7, 8).

Interpretation (scientific, archaeological:

(Criteria 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).

Environment (collective, landmark, natural; •

Criteria 2, 5, 6, 7, 8).

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The Tatter Hotel is one of only four remaining Federation Anglo­

Dutch hotels in Sydney today. The other three hotels are the

Crown Hotel in Elizabeth Street, Fosters Inn in Clarence Street

and Agincourt Hotel in George Street. It is the only one of the

four that presents a facade to only one street.

The Tatter Hotel, completed in 1902, was constructed at the time

of the Federation of Australia. It reflected the values of society

in the architectural and aesthetic tastes in hotel establishments of

this time. The substantial size of the building and its elaborate

detail and finish suggest that at its prime, in the early part of

this century, the Tatler Hotel was a rising star in the hotel

industry. This history and the aesthetic and architectural qualities

of its Anglo Dutch design are primarily reflected in the extant

facade above awning level.

By the 1930s, after the inter-war depression, ever· spiralling

expectations of hotel patrons and society in general continued to •

demand improved buildings and services. The Tatler Hotel

underwent major alterations in 1938, having the ground floor

shopfront and internal bar areas refurbished in the current popular

Art Deco style. Major funds for this refurbishment were injected

into the hotel by the brewery Tooth _and Co, who were part

owners. The current ground floor facade, though much altered,

provides evidence of the 1938 modifications.

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the Tatter Hotel facade forms a part of a diverse and largely

intact Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century streetscape. This

streetscape comprises an array of building styles, many of which

are of individual and collective merit and of high architectural

heritage significance. They include Dymocks, Grace Bros, the

Strand Arcade, Commonwealth Bank Chambers, McDonalds,

Gowings and the Queen Victoria Building.

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building fabric of the Tatter Hotel. The substantial alterations that have

occurred to the fabric reflect changing hotel use patterns in Sydney during

the Twentieth Century and relate to major works programs; 1902 opening,

1930s takeover and consequent refurbishme"nt, 1980s decline and adaptation

for retail use.

The most intact and most architecturally and environmentally imposing

element is the surviving original 1902 (George Street) facade, above the

current awning. The fabric of the facade is the least altered part of the

building and the one which displays its fundamental architectural style. The

Ground Floor facade provides the major evidence on site of the 1938

alterations in the Art Deco idiom. While the basement is understood to

remain in largely original form, the remainder of the building fabric, behind

the facade, has undergone major change. Some spaces and features (e.g .

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Other elements (e.g. first floor) have been altered to the extent that their

configuration and form is nondescript and detracts from the overall

significance of the building.

In general, the significance of the Tatler relates primarily to the existing

facade. The fabric in the rest of the building has relatively minor

significance only, as evidence of the building's history.

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Summary

The Tatler Hotel is an item of environmental heritage

significance:

* It is a rare example of Federation Anglo-Dutch design and

orie of only four hotels in this idiom remaining in Sydney.

* It evidences changing hotel use patterns in Sydney during the

Twentieth Century.

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optimism and revitalisation of the Australian economy and

building industry, at the time of Federation.

Its facade remains relatively intact and is an important

contributing element to diverse late Nineteenth and early

Twentieth Century streetscape in one of Sydney's main

streets.

Its facade includes elements

refurbishment in typical Art Deco

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History

The Tatler Hotel is of historical significance:

* It has social significance as it was constructed at the turn of

the Twentieth Century, at the time of renewed optimism

following the Federation of Australia and the subsequent

revitalisation of the Australian economy and building industry.

* It has social significance as it served the rising middle class

in its role as an inner city pub.

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* It has cultural significance as it is evocative of the changing

hotel use patterns in Sydney during the Twentieth Century;

1902 construction and opening, 1930s takeover by Tooth & Co,

and refurbishment in the Art Deco style, 1980s decline and

use as a retail store.

* It has social significance shown in the 1930s ground floor

shopfront and public bar refurbishments in the current popular

idiom; the Art Deco functionalist style.

* It is associated with the cultural development of the

Australian pub in Sydney. It is an example of the continued

evolution of pub architecture in Australia.

Architecture

The Tatler Hotel is of architectural significance:

* It is a rare, and the most literal in stylistic interpretation, of

the remaining four Federation Anglo-Dutch hotels in Sydney,

and the only one that presents a facade to a single street.

The facade is a notable and representational example of the

Federation Anglo-Dutch architectural style.

* Its facade has aesthetic significance as an intact example

above the street awning of a Federation Anglo-Dutch facade,

using typical materials of the Federation period, namely red

tuck-pointed face brickwork, with decorative sandstone

detailing.

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The Tatler Hotel is of interpretative significance:

* Through the juxtaposition of the above and below awning

facade, it demonstrates the transition from hand finished to

machine finished building materials.

* As an archaeological site, it may contain sub-surface features,

relating to its Nineteenth Century occupation, which have

, scientific research potential.

Environmental

The Tatter Hotel is of environmental significance:

* It is located on one of Sydney's main streets within a large

and diverse group of late Nineteenth and early Twentieth

Century commercial buildings on George Street.

* Its facade is an important contributor to its immediate

contextual streetscape being the only Federation Anglo-Dutch

hotel facade and the only one with remnants of an Art Deco

ground floor shopfront.

Individual Elements of Significance

Clearly many of the significant attributes identified above relate

to the Tatter's facade rather than to the whole building. In

working towards an appropriate policy for the Tatter it is

considered useful to differentiate the relative significance of

individual elements.

The table on page 60 provides a relative assessment of the

significance of individual elements. The categories are the same

as those used in the Statement of Cultural Significance. The

values are:

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3 some significance

2 little or no significance

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Facade - Third Floor 4 Awning 3

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Northern Elevation (centre) 3 Northern Elevation (east) 2 Basement 3 Ground F1oor Interiors 2 First Floor Interiors 2 Second Floor Interiors 3 Third Floor Interiors 3 ,Main Staircase 3 Joinery c.l902 3 Joinery c. 1938 3 Fittings c.1938 3 Rear Staircase 3

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Much altered during history

Altered 1938. Much altered since Intact, original design Intact, origi.nal design Intact with added parapet

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Constraints Arising from the . Statement of Cultural Significance

Section 7.0 above establishes the heritage significance of the

Tatler Hotel. In order to retain the significant attributes

identified above, a number of actions should (or should not) occur.

The following points summarise the key constraints affecting the

site which arise from its cultural significance:

* The Tatler Hotel is an item of heritage value, and it should

consequently be treated in accordance with accepted

conservation principles and guidelines.

* The Tatler Hotel, and particularly elements identified as

of high significace, should be retained and conserved;

preserved, restored and/or reconstructed).

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* Elements of some significance should be considered for

retention and conservation.

* · Elements of little or no significance may be removed.

* Elements which detract from the heritage significance of the

place should be removed.

* Elements which illustrate the Anglo-Dutch design of the

building should be retained.

* No action should occur which detracts from the streetscape

value of the Tatler Hotel, and its relationship with other

elements of the George Street streetscape.

* Ideally, the Tatler building would be used as an operating

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* Consideration should be given to retention of identifiable

remnants of the 1938 upgrading, particularly decorative Art

Deco features, (very little of which remains).

* Any new work undertaken, either as part of the building

fabric or associated with it, should respect the current form,

scale, design and format.

* Any new fabric introduced to the building should respect the

existing fabric.

* Records and other documentation associated with the Tatler

Hotel should be retained and conserved.

* The cultural significance of the building should be interpreted

on site.

Constraints Arising from the Burra Charter of Australia ICOMOS

The Burra Charter is accepted by the Heritage Council of New·

South Wales as providing sound guidelines for conservation work

and practices. Following are the constraints arising from the

relevant articles:

* Provision should be made for the continuing security and

maintenance of significant elements, (i.e. those with assessed •

high or some heritage significance). [Article 2].

* All conservation works should involve minimum interference to

the existing fabric. [Article 3].

* The visual setting for significant items must be maintained

and no new construction or other action which detracts from

the heritage value of the item should occur. [Article 8].

* Fabric should be retained in situ unless moving it is the sole

means of achieving its survival. [Article 9].

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* Fabric from all periods should be recognised as contributing to •

the significance of the item. [Article 16].

* Existing fabric should be recorded before disturbance occurs.

[Article 23]. •

* Disturbance of fabric may occur in order to provide evidence

needed for the making of decisions on the conservation of the

place. [Article 24] . •

* The decision-making procedure and individuals responsible for

policy decisions should be identified. [Article 26].

* Appropriate direction and supervision should be maintained at

all stages of the work. [Article 27].

* A record should be kept of new evidence and future decisions.

[Article 27].

* Copies of all reports and records should be placed in a

permanent archive and made publicly available. [Article 28].

* Fabric of cultural significance already or subsequently

removed should be kept in a secure repository. [Article 22].

* Items removed should be professionally catalogued and

protected. [Article 29] .

Physical Condition

A specific structural investigation has not been undertaken as part

of the current report. The following comments derive from

observations made during on-site inspection, review of drawings

and information provided by Guy Fuller Cook Architects.

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* The load-bearing brick walls of the structure, though altered

significantly during its lifetime, are currently intact.

* The building is in need of regular maintenance, which has not

been undertaken for some years.

* The roof at the rear of the building is no longer in a

satisfactory condition.

* The building has undergone major alteration at ground floor

level. In addition to rearrangement of the shopfronts, this

work has greatly restricted access to upper levels.

* Generally, the building configuration is awkward and would

limit the range of possible future uses. •

Statutory Controls

Australian Heritage Commission

The Tatler Hotel has been nominated to the Register of the

National Estate. The nomination has yet to be assessed by the

Australian Heritage Commission. The Register lists items, which

in the opinion of the Commission, fall within the following

definition:

"Components of the natural environment or the cultural

environment of Australia that have aesthetic, historic,

scientific or social significance or other special value for

future generations, as well as for the present community."

Listing in the Register of the National Estate imposes no legal

restrictions, except on federal authorities which must consult with

the Commission prior to carrying out any work which will impact

upon the heritage value on a place on the Register, and which

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Register if there are alternatives which are "prudent" and

"feasible".

A copy of the Australian Heritage Commission Entry is included

as Appendix E.

NSW Heritage Act 1977

The NSW Heritage Act includes various provisions for protecting

· identified items of environmental heritage. These include

conservation instruments and provisions for "relics".

Conservation instruments may be interim or permanent. There

are also instruments which control demolition or stop demolition

work in progress. Conservation instruments (orders) can control:

* demolition of buildings or works;

* damage to or despoliation of relics, places or land;

* development of land on which buildings, works or relics are

situated; •

* alteration of buildings, works or relics.

The Tatler Hotel is currently subject to an order made pursuant

to Section 130 of the NSW Heritage Act. Its site would also be

subject to the "relics" provisions of the Act.

Section 130. Orders

The Minister (or delegate) may also make an order over an item

pursuant to Section 130 of the Heritage Act, where it is

considered that, after further investigation, an Interim (ICO) or

Permanent (PCO) Conservation Order may be justified.

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for one year, unless an ICO or PCO is made, or a notice of

proposed works or demolition is served on the Heritage Council.

Where notice of proposed works or demolition is served, the

Minister must make an ICO or PCO within 40 days, or the order

lapses.

Where a local Council has a draft LEP ready to exhibit, which

has a schedule of heritage items, the Heritage Council, Director/

Assistant Director or nominee may delegate authority to make

Section 130 orders to a Local Government Authority. This can be

a useful tool for providing interim protection to items identified

during a heritage study, while other appropriate statutory or non

statutory protective measures are determined.

Following its identification as a heritage item in the Sydney .

Central Business District Heritage Study, the Tatler Hotel was •

included in the 'Heritage Inventory for Central Sydney'. Items in

this schedule have been made the subject of orders under Section

130 of the Act, by Sydney City Council, acting on delegated

authority .

"Relics"

The Heritage Act affords automatic statutory protection to

"relics" which form part of archaeological deposits. The Act

defines a "relic" as:

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· settlement of the area that comprises New South Wales,

not being aboriginal settlement and which is fifty or more

years old".

Sections 139-145 of the Act prevent the excavation or disturbance

of land for the purpose of discovering, exposing or moving a relic,

except by a qualified archaeologist to whom an excavation permit

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The Tatter is identified as an item of heritage significance in the

Heritage Inventory for Central Sydney, and as a result is included

in the Heritage Schedule of the "Draft City of Sydney Local

Environmental Plan - Environmental Heritage" (LEP 99).

A copy of the Heritage Inventory Listing is included as

Appendix G.

Draft LEP 99 includes a series of provisions which apply to

identified heritage items. A copy of the LEP is included as

Appendix I.

In addition, the LEP expands on the archaeological requirements

of the Heritage Act in relation to archaeological investigations.

Appendix I includes a chart summarising the required procedures.

On this basis and in view of the possibility of the existence of . .

nineteenth century features, a baseline archaeological assessment

would be required if any subsurface areas are to be disturbed.

The baseline assessment would determine the nature of any

further archaeological investigations required. These could include

monitoring of bulk excavation works, further historical research or

even archaeological excavation.

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Coles Myer Limited has an overall requirement of the Tatler Hotel

site; that it be developed in such a way as to provide for

appropriate use of the site and an adequate rate of return on

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which occupies the southern end of the city block, bounded by Pitt

Street Mall, Market Street and George Street. The Tatter Hotel

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is via this laneway that all deliveries to the store are made, and

all service vehicles enter and exit.

The question of continued service to the Grace Bros complex is a

major issue under consideration, in relation to the Tatter, at the

time of completion of this plan.

There are current difficulties with the existing laneway. It is

possible that the owners of the Oymocks building may (legally)

obstruct access, creating major problems for the Grace Bros city

store.

At the request of Coles Myer Ltd, Guy Fuller Cook Architects

have prepared plans of options for construction of access. These

range from entry via the ground floor, (enabling retention of a

large part of the Tatler), to total removal of the Tatler.

It is intended that a D.A. will be lodged for construction of a new

access at this site. At a pre-O.A. meeting between

representatives of Coles Myer Ltd, Guy Fuller Cook Architects Pty

Ltd and the Sydney City Council, council officers indicated that a

scheme which retained the whole of the facade would be

preferred.

This plan and the following policy do not presume that the

proposed access will be constructed, but the policy considerations

do take such a possibility into account.

Other Constraints

The site is classified by The National Trust of Australia (NSW).

Listing by the Trust has no legal force, but is recognised as an

authoritative statement regarding the heritage significance of a

place. The view of The National Trust is often taken into

account by other authorities. Sydney City Council, for example,

often refers Development Applications for items classified by The

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The National Trust has adopted a policy on conservation of

· building facades, which is a relevant consideration in the current

case. This policy is expressed in a substantial document, but in

summary advocates the retention of significant building facades,

not as veneers on the front of new developments, but rather

together with a substantial part of existing buildings. The

incorporation of the old Treasury building, as part of a more

recent development by the Intercontinental Hotel in

Macquarie/Bridge Street, Sydney, is an example of the type of

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as having historic, architectural, interpretative, environmental and

other significance. It is clearly an item of environmental heritage

and is worthy of consideration for retention, conservation, and

presumably adaptation to a new use. This significance relates

primarily to its impressive Federation Anglo Dutch facade,

although other elements of the building have some significance,

being part of the building's history and reflecting changes and

development in Sydney hotels during the Twentieth Century. In

terms of its identified significant attributes, and its ability to

demonstrate its purpose and function, the Tatler would ideally be

retained in use as an operating hotel. However, the economic and

social viability of hotels of this type is past. In view of its

current condition, the alterations that have occurred to it during

its lifetime, and the serious operational issues associated with the

Grace Bros site, operation as a hotel may be neither possible nor

desirable and alternative adaptation may therefore be considered.

The limited physical assessment that has been undertaken indicates

that the building is essentially sound and that, from a physical

point of view, adaptation to a new use may be feasible. It would • also be feasible to retain the building facade, and part of the

building fabric behind, incorporating this into a new structure or

development, while at the same time making provision for access

to the Grace Bros site. Provision of access to the site would not

necessitate total removal of the Tatler. Indeed, it is understood

that access may be gained through the ground floor level, allowing

retention of the upper level Anglo-Dutch fabric, and confining

disruption to areas that have already been compromised by

unsympathetic alterations.

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In relation to existing statutory controls, the Tatler Hotel has been

nominated to the Register of The National Estate. It is subject to

a conservation instrument made pursuant to Section 130 of the

New South Wales Heritage Act. It is also identified as an item of

heritage significance by The National Trust of Australia. The

major controls affecting the building are imposed by Sydney City

Council. Draft LEP 99 provides conservation objectives and

procedures for the site. The LEP identifies the Tatler Hotel as an

item of heritage value, and the applicable procedures indicate that

it should be retained and conserved. However, the LEP does

provide a mechanism under which Council could consent to

activities including alteration, development, or even demolition.

However, it is the clear intention of the planning controls that the •

building is a heritage item which should be retained. Should sub-

surface disturbance be· contemplated on site, the "relics" provisions

of the New South Wales Heritage Act and the archaeological

procedures of draft LEP 99 would apply. -

There is an economic issue associated with the current under­

utilisation of the Tatter Hotel site, and another consideration, at

present, is Coles Myer Ltd's need for access to the Grace Bros

complex. While it is important that the potential conflict between

this requirement and the heritage significance of the building be

addressed in the conservation policy, the policy should also be

sufficiently flexible to provide a sound basis for future planning.

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Hotel building in detail. It has been prepared in order to provide

a basis for considering the existing access issue, to consider the

merits of inclusion of the building in the' Heritage Schedule of

Draft LEP 99, and to provide a basis for future planning decisions

at the site .

Policy Statement

Having regard to the foregoing discussion, and the constraints and

requirements identified in Section 8, it is recommended that the

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providing a sound basis for the future planning for the Tatler

Hotel.

* Coles Myer Ltd recognises the heritage value of the Tatter

Hotel.

* The Tatter Hotel is acknowledged as an item of environmental

heritage significance which should be treated in accordance '

with the guidelines and principles established by the Burra

Charter of Australia ICOMOS.

* Total preservation/restoration/reconstruction of the building as

an operational hotel, though desirable from a heritage

conservation point of view, is acknowledged as being neither

feasible nor desirable for practical reasons.

* The Tatter Hotel building should be adapted for a new use . •

* Adaptation of the hotel for a new use should provide for

retention of its significant attributes, particularly the George

Street facade, above awning level, which should be preserved

and reconstructed.

* Elements of some significance should be retained and

conserved where possible. These are th·e awning, the

basement, the second and third floor interiors, remnant 1902

joinery and remnant 1938 joinery and fittings. Other items

may be removed.

* The existing 1980s ground floor and first floor shop fit-outs

are detracting elements which should be removed in order to

recover the significance. of the place.

* Existing Grace Bros access problems may be addressed by

proposals which provide entry at ground floor level, enabling

. maximum retention of existing building fabric.

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retained and should be integrated with any new construction

on site. Preference should be given to fabric. identified as

being of some heritage significance.

New work should respect the existing form, scale and design. ·

No new openings or other major changes should occur to the

George Street facade, above ground level.

New fabric introduced to significant elements which are

retained should respect existing fabric.

The view of the George Street elevation as a streetscape

element should be recognised and no activity should occur

which detracts from this value, or impacts upon the

relationship between the Tatler Hotel and other significant

streetscape elements within George Street.

No hypothetical reconstruction of the former ground floor

facade should occur.

It is appropriate that the Tatler Hotel should continue to be

protected by statutory heritage conservation controls.

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should be undertaken in accordance with the provisions of

Draft LEP 99 and appropriate archaeological investigation

commensurate with the established significance and potential

of the archaeological resource should occur. (As most of the

basement is believed to be excavated into bedrock, potentially

significant archaeological features are likely to be confined to

the eastern end of the site).

Prior to any alteration, or demolition of existing fabric, the

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thorough black and white photographic recordings.

Significant documentation, (including this report and copies of

any recording undertaken), should be lodged with an

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future of the site, and the means by which access to the

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In order to implement the conservation policy outlined in Section •

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* Coles Myer Ltd should consider and adopt the above

conservation policy.

* The policy should be referred to the Council of the City of

Sydney and the Heritage Council of New South Wales for

consideration and approval. It is recommended that a copy of

this Conservation Plan be forwarded to each of these

organisations, and that liaison occur at an early stage.

* A copy of this Conservation Plan should be forwarded to the

National Trust of Australia (NSW) and the Australian Heritage

Commission, for noting.

* It is appropriate that the Tatler Hotel continue to receive

statutory protection.

made to its listing

To this extent, no objection should be

in the Heritage Schedule of LEP 99.

However, once the LEP is gazetted, it is recommended that

the order made pursuant to Section 130 of the New South

Wales Heritage Act may be lifted. (Listing by the National

Trust of Australia (NSW) and the Australian Heritage

Commission imposes no direct legal control).

* In the event that access for service of the Grace Bros site is

required through the Tatter Hotel site, the existing building

should not be demolished in toto. Alternative means of

providing entry to the Grace Bros complex, (i.e. access

through the ground floor of the existing Tatler George Street

facade), should be used. Development consent for removal of

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repair work for the existing significant fabric, as part of the

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No hypothetical reconstruction of missing elements should

occur.

If subsurface features are to be disturbed by the proposed re­

development of the site, an archaeological baseline assessment

must be undertaken in accordance with the relevant provi~ions

of Draft LEP 99. Adequate time and resources should be

allocated to ensure that this assessment can occur and that

provision is made for any resulting additional historical or

archaeological investigations.

This Conservation Plan should be formally reviewed, following

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OF CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE (The Burra Charter)

Preamble Having regard to the International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites (Venice 1966), and the Resolutions of 5th General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) (Moscow 1978), the following Charter was adopted by Australia ICOMOS on 19th August 1979 at Burra Burra. Revisions were adopted on 23rd February 1981 and on 23 April 1988.

Definitions Article 1. For the purpose of this Charter:

1.1 Place means site, area, building or other work, group of buildings or other works together with associated contents and surroundings.

1.2 Cultural significance means aesthetic, historic, scientific or social value for past, present or future generations.

1.3 Fabric means all the physical material of the place. 1.4 Conservation means all the processes of looking

after a place so as to retain its cultural significance. It includes maintenance and may according to circumstance include preservation, restoration, reconstruction and adaptation and will be commonly a combination of more than one of these.

1.5 Maintenance means the continuous protective care of the fabric, contents and setting of a place, and is to be distinguished from repair. Repair involves resroration or reconstruction and it should be treated accordingly.

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1.7 Restoration means returning the EXISTING fabric of a place to a known earlier state by removing accretions or by reassembling existing components without the introduction of new materiaL

1.8 Reconstruction means returning a place as nearly as possible to a known earlier state and is distinguished by the introduction of materials (new or old) into the fabric. This is not to be confused with either re-creation or conjectural reconstruction which are outside the scope of this Charter.

1.9 Adaptation means modifying a place to suit proposed compatible uses.

1.10 Compatible use means a use which involves no change to the culturally significant fabric, changes which are substantially reversible, or changes which require a minimal impact.

Explanatory Notes These notes do not form part of the Charter and may be added to by Australia ICOMOS.

Article 1.1 Place includes structures. ruins. archaeological sites and landscapes modified by human activity.

Article 1.5 The distinctions referred to in Article 1.5, for example in relation to roof gutters. are:

maintenance - regular inspection and cleaning of gutters

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Article 3. Conservation is based on a respect for the existing fabric and should involve the least possible physical intervention. It should not distort the evidence provided by the fabric.

Article 4. Conservation should make use of all the disciplines which can contribute to the study and safe­guarding of a place. Techniques employed should be traditional but in some circumstances. they may be modern ones for which a firm scientific basis exists and which have been supported by a body of experience.

Article 5. Conservation of a place should take into con~ sideration all aspects of its cultural significance without unwarranted emphasis on any one aspect at the expense of others.

Article 6. The conservation policy appropriate to a place must first be determined by an understanding of its cultural significance.

Article 7. The conservation policy will determine which uses are compatible.

Article 8. Conservation requires the maintenance of an appropriate visual setting: e.g., form, scale, colour, texture and materials. No new construction, demolition or modification which would adversely affect the setting should be allowed. Environmental instrusions which adversely affect appreciation or enjoyment of the place should be excluded. · ·

Article 9. A building or work should remain in its historical location. The moving of all or part of a building or work is unacceptable unless this is the sole means of ensuring its survival.

Article 10. The removal of contents which form part of the cultural significance of the place is unacceptable unless it is the sole means of ensuring their security and preservation. Such contents must be returned should changed circumstances make this practicable.

,\rticlc 2 Cunsenation should not be undertaken unles5 adequate resources are available to ensure that the fabric is not left in a vulnerable state and that the <:ultural significance of the place is not impaired. However, it must be emphasised that the best conservation often involves the least work :md can be inexpensive.

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Article 7 Continuity of the use of a place in a particular way may be significant and therefore desirable.

Article 8 New construction work, including infill and additions, may be acceptable,. provided:

it does not reduce or obscure the cultural significance of the place

it is in keeping with Article 8.

Article 9 Some structures were designed to be readily removable or already have a history of previous moves, e.g. prefabricated dwellings and poppet· heads. Provided such a structure does not have a strong association with its present site, its removal may be considered. If any structure is moved, it should be moved to an appropriate setting and given an appropriate use, Such action should not be to the detriment of any place or cultural significance.

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Preservation Article l t. Preservation is appropriate where the existing state of the fabric itself constitutes evidence of specific cultural significance, or where insufficient evidence is available to allow other conservation processes to be carried out.

Article 12. Preservation is limited to the protection, maintenance and, where necessary, the stabilization of the existing fabric but without the distortion of its cultural significance.

Restoration Article 13. Restoration is appropriate only if there is sufficient evidence of an earlier state of the fabric and only if returning the fabric to that state reveals the culltlral significance of the place.

Article 14. Restoration should reveal anew culturally significant aspects of the place. It is based on respect for · all the physical, documentary and other evidence and stops at the point where conjecture begins.

Article IS. Restoration is limited to the reassembling of displaced components or removal of accretions in accordance with Article 16.

Article 16. The contributions of all periods to the place must be respected. If a place includes the fabric of different periods, revealing the fabric of one period at the expense of another can only be justified when what is removed is of slight cultural significance and the fabric which is to be revealed is of much greater cultllral sigmjicance.

Reconstruction Article 17. Reconstruction is appropriate only where a place is incomplete through damage or alteration and where it is necessary for its survival, or where it reveals the cultural significance of the place as a whole.

Article 18. Reconstruction is limited to the completion of a depleted entity and should not constitute the majority of the fabric of a place. Article 19. Reconstruction is limited to the reproduction of fabric, the form of which is known from physical and/or documentary evidence. It should be identifiable on close inspection as being new work.

Adaptation Article 20. Adaptation is acceptable where the conserva· lion of the place cannot otherwise be achieved, and where the adaptation does not substantially detract from its cultural significance.

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where the evidence of the fabric is of such significance that it must not be altered. This is an unusual case and likely to be appropriate for archaeological remains of national importance: where insufficient investigation has been carried out to permit conservation policy decisions to be taken in accord with Articles ::?.3 to 25.

New construction may be carried out in association with preservation when its purpose is the physical protection of the fabric and when it is consistent with Article 8.

Artidc 12 Stabilization is a process which helps keep fabric intact and in a fixed position. When ,carried out as a part of preservation work it does not introduce new materials into the fabric. However. when necessary for the survival of the fabric, stabilization may be effected as part of a reconstruction process and new materials introduced. for example. grouting or the insertion of a reinforcing rod in a masonr)' wall.

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Article 22. Fabric of cultural significance unavoidably removed in the process of adaptation must be kept safely to enable its future reinstatement.

Conservation Practice Article 23. Work on a place must be preceded by professionally prepared studies of the physical, documentary and other evidence, and the existingfabric recorded before any intervention in the place.

Article 24. Study of a place by any intervention in the fabric or by archaeological excavation should be under· taken where necessary to provide data essential for decisions on the conservation of the place and/or to secure evidence about to be lost or made inaccessible through necessary conservation or other unavoidable action. Investigation of a place for any other reason which requires physical disturbance and which adds substantially to a scientific body of knowledge may be permitted, provided that it is consistent with the conservation policy for the place.

Article 25. A written statement of conservation policy must be professionally prepared setting out the cultural significance and proposed conservation procedure together with justification and supporting evidence, including photographs, drawings and all appropriate samples.

Article 26. The organisation and individuals responsible for policy decisions must be named and specific respon­sibility taken for each such decision.

Article 27. Appropriate professional direction and supervision must be maintained at all stages of the work and a log kept of new evidence and additional decisions recorded as in Article 25 above.

Article 28. The records required by Articles 23, 25, 26 and 27 should be placed in a permanent archive and made publicly available.

Article 29. The items referred to in Articles I 0 and 22 should be professionally catalogued and protected.

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These guidelines for the establishment of cultural significance were adopted by the Australian national committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (Australia ICOMOS) on 14 April 1984 and revised on 23 April 1988. They should be read in conjunction with the I3urra Charter.

Contents 1.0 Preface 1.1 Intention of guidelines 1.2 Applicability 1.3 Need to establish cultural significance 1.4 Skills required 1.5 Issues not considered 2.0 The Concept of Cultural Significance 2.1 I nt reduction 2.2 Aesthetic value 2.3 Historic value 2.4 Scientific value 2.5 Social value 2.6 Other approaches 3.0 The Establishment of Cultural Significance 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Collection of information 3.3 The assessment of cultural significance

3.3.1 Extent of .recording 3.3.2Intervention in the fabric 3.3.3 Hypotheses

3.4 Statement of cultural significance

4.0 The Report 4.1 Content 4.2 Written material 4.3 Graphic material 4.4 Sources 4.5 Exhibition and adoption

LO PREFACE 1.1 Intention of guidelines

These guidelines are intended to clarify the nature of professional work done within the terms of the I3urra Charter. They recommend a methodical procedure for assessing the cultural significance of a place, for preparing a statement of cultural significance and for making such information publicly available.

1.2 ApJJiicability The guidelines appl)' to any place likely to be of cultural significance regardless of its type or size.

1.3 Need to establish cultural significance The assessment of cultural significance and the preparation of a statement of cultural significance, embodied in a report as defined in section 4.0, are essential prerequisites to making decisions about the future of a place.

I A Skills required In accordance with Article 4 of the I3urra Charter, the study of a place should make use of all relevant disciplines. The professional skills required for such

study are not common. It cannot be assumed that any one practitioner will have the full range of skills required to assess cultural significance and prepare a statement. Sometimes in the course of the task it will be necessary to engage additional practitioners with special expertise.

1.5 Issues not considered The assessment of cultural significance and the preparation of a statement do not involve or take account of such issues as the necessity for con· servation action, legal constraints, possible uses, structural stability or costs and returns. These issues will be dealt with in the development of a con· servation policy ..

2.0 THE CONCEPT OF CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE

2.1 Introduction In the Burra Charter cultural significance means "aesthetic, historic, scientific or social value for past, present or future generations". Cultural significance is a concept which helps in estimating the value of places .. The places that are likely to be of significance are those which help an understanding of the past or enrich the present, and which will be of value to future generations. Although there are a variety of adjectives used in definitions of cultural significance in Australia, the adjectives "aesthetic", "historic", "scientific" and "social", given alphabetically in the Burra Charter, can encompass all other values. The meaning of these terms in the context of cultural significance is discussed below. ft should be noted that they are not mutually exclusive, for example, architectural style has both historic and aesthetic aspects.

2.2 Aesthetic value Aesthetic value includes aspects of sensory percep· tion for which criteria can and should be stated. Such criteria may include consideration of the form, scale, colour, texture and material of the fabric; the smells and sounds associated with the place and its use .

2.3 Historic value Historic value encompasses the history of aesthetics, science and society, and therefore to a large extent underlies all of the terms set out in this section. A place may have historic value because it has influenced, or has been influenced by, an historic fil,~ure, event, phase or activity .. It may also have historic value as the site of an important event. For any given place the significance will be greater where evidence of the association or event survives in situ, or where the settings are substantially intact, than where it has been changed or evidence does not survive. However, some events or associations may be so important that the place retains significance regardless of subsequent treatment •

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2.5 Social value Social value embraces the qualities for which a place has become a focus of spiritual, political, national or other cultural sentiment to a majority or minority group.

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Introduction In establishing the cultural significance of a place it is necessary to assess all the information relevant

• to an understanding of the place and its fabric. The task includes a report comprising written material and graphic material. The contents of the report -should be arranged to suit the place and the limitations on the task, but it will generally be in two sections: first, the assessment of cultural significance (see 3.2 and 3.3) and second, the statement of cultural significance (see 3.4).

3.2 Collection of information Information relevant to the assessment of cultural significance should be collected. Such information concerns: (a) the developmental sequence of the place and its

relationship to the surviving fabric; (b) the existence and nature of lost or obliterated

fabric; (c) the rarity and/or technical interest of all or any

part of the place; (d) the functions of the place and its parts; (e) the relationship of the place and its parts with

its setting; (f) the cultural influences which have affected the

form and fabric of the place; (g) the significance of the place to people who use

or have used the place, or descendants of such people;

(h) the historical content of the place with particular reference to the ways in which its fabric has been influenced by historical forces or has itself influenced the course of history;

(i) the scientific or research potential of the place; U) the relationship of the place to other places, for

example in respect of design, technology, use, locality or origin;

(k) any other factor relevant to an understanding of the place.

3.3 The assessment of cultural significance The assessment of cultural significance follows the collection of information.

The validity of the judgements will depend upon the care with which the data is collected and the reasoning applied to it. In assessing cultural significance the practitioner should state conclusions. Unresolved aspects should be identified. Whatever may be considered the principal significance of a place, all other aspects of significance should be given consideration.

3.3.1 Extent of recording -In assessing these matters a practitioner should record the place sufficiently to provide a basis for the necessary discussion of the facts. During such recording any obviously urgent problems endangering the place, such as stability' and security, should be reported to the client.

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3.3.3 Hypotheses-Hypotheses, however expert or informed, should not be presented as established fact. Feasible or possible hypotheses should be set out, with the evidence for and against them, and the line of reasoning that has been followed. Any attempt which has been made to check a hypothesis should be recorded, so as to avoid repeating fruitless research.

3.4 Statement of cultural significance The practitioner should prepare a succinct statement of cultural significance, supported by, or cross referenced to, sufficient graphic material to help identify the fabric of cultural significance. It is essential that the statement be clear and pithy, expressing simply why the place is of value but not restating the physical or documentary evidence.

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4.1 Content The report will comprise written and graphic material and will present an assessment of cultural significance and a statement of cultural significance. In order to avoid unnecessary bulk, only material directly relevant to the process of assessing cultural significance and to making a statement of cultural significance should be included. See also Guidelines to the Burra Charter: Procedures for Undertaking Studies and Reports.

4.2 Written material The text should be clearly set out and easy to follow. In addition to the assessment and statement of cultural significance as set out in 3.2,. 3.3 and 3.4 it should include: (a) name of the client; (b) names of all the practitioners engaged in the.

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These guidelines, which cover the development of conservation policy and strategy for implementation of that policy, were adopted by the Australian national committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (Australia ICOIVIOS) on 25 May 1985 and re,·iscd on 23 April 1988. They should be read in conjunction with the Burra Charter.

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I. I Intention of guidelines 1.2 Cultural significance I .3 Need to develop conservation policy I A Skills required 2.0 The Scope of the Conservation Policy 2. I Introduction 2.2 Fabric and setting 2.3 Use 2.4 lnterpretatioh 2.5 Management 2.6 Control of ph)•sical intervention in the fabric 2.7 Constraints on investigation 2 .. 8 Future developments 2.9 Adoption and review 3.0 Development of Conservation Policy 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Collection ·of in formation

3.2.1 Significant fabric 3.2.2 Client, owner and user requirements and

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3.3 Assessment of information 3.4 Statement of conservation policy 3.5 Consequences of conservation polk)'

4.0 Implementation of Conservation Policy

5.0 The Report 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Written material 5.3 Graphic material 5.4 Sources

1.0 PREFACE

1.1 Intention of guidelines These guidelines are intended to clarify the nature of professional work done within the terms of the Burra Charter. They recommend a methodical procedure for development of the conservation policy for a place, for the statement of conservation policy and for the strategy for the implementation of that policy.

1.2 Cultural significance The establishment of cultural significance and the preparation of a statement of cultural significance are essential prerequisites to the development of a conservation policy (refer to Guidelines to the Burra Charter: Cultural Significance).

1.3 Need to develop conservation policy The development of a conservation polic)', embodied in a report as defined in Section 5.0, is an essential prerequisite to making decisions about the future of the place ..

1.4 Skills required In accordance with the Burnt Charter, the study of a place should make use of all relevant disciplines. The professional skills required for such study arc not common. It cannot be assumed that an;• one practitioner will have.the full range ofskills required to develop a conservation policy and prepare the appropriate report. In the course of the task it ma>' be necessary to consult with other practitioners and organisations.

2.0 THE SCOPE OF THE CONSERVATION POLICY

2.1 Introduction The purpose of the conservation policy is to state how the conservation of the place may best be achieved both in the long and short term. It will be specific to that place. The conservation policy will include the issues listed below.

2.2 Fabric and setting The conservation policy should identify the most appropriate way of caring for the fabric and setting of the place arising out of the statement of significance and other constraints. A specific combination of conservation actions should be identified. This may or may not involve changes to the fabric.

2.3 Usc The conservation policy should identify a usc or combination of uses, or constraints on use, that are compatible with the retention of the cultural significance of the place and that are feasible.

2.4 Interpretation The conservation policy should identify appropriate ways of making the significance of the place understood consistent with the retention of that significance. This may be a combination of the treatment of the fabric, the use of the place and the usc of introduced interpretative material. In some instances the cultural significance and other constraints may preclude the introduction of such uses and material.

2.5 Management The conservation policy should identify a management structure through which the conserva­tion policy is capable of being implemented. 1t should also identify: (a) those to be responsible for subsequent

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fabric and contents removed from the place; (g) provide for the analysis of material; (h) provide for the dissemination of the resultant

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2. 7 Constraints on investigation The conservation policy should identify social, religious, legal or other cultural constraints which might limit the accessibility or investigation of the place.

2.8 Future developments The conservation policy should set guidelines for future developments resulting from changing needs.

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J. I Introduction In developing a conservation policy for the place it is necessary to assess all the information relevant to the future care of the place and its fabric. Central to this task is the statement of cultural significance. The task includes a report as set out in Section 5 .0. The contents of the report should be arranged to suit the place and the limitations of the task, but it will generally be in three sections: (a) the development of a conservation policy (see

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3.2 Collection of information In order to develop the conservation policy sufficient information relevant to the following should be collected:

3.2.1 Significant fabric ~ Establish or confirm the nature, extent, and degree of intactness of the significant fabric including contents (see Guidelines to Burra Charter: Cultural

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3.2.2 Client, owner and user requirements and resources-Investigate needs, aspirations, current proposals, available finances, etc., in respect of the place.

3.2.3 Other requirements and concerns -Investigate other requirements and concerns likely to affect the future of the place and its setting including: (a) federal, state and local government acts,

ordinances and planning controls; (b) community needs and expectations; (c) locational and social context.

3.2.4 Condition of fabric -Survey the fabric sufficiently to establish how its physical state will affect options for the treatment of the fabric .

3.2.5 Uses-Collect information about uses, sufficient to determine whether or not such uses are compatible with the significance of the place and feasible.

3.2.6 Comparative information -Collect comparative information about the conservation of similar places (if appropriate).

3.2.7 Unavailable information-Iclenti fy information which has been sought and is unavailable and which may be critical to the determination of the conservation policy or to its implementation.

3.3 Assessment of information The information gat11ered above should now be assessed in relation to the constraints arising from the statement of cultural significance for the purpose of developing a conservation policy. In the course of the assessment it may be necessary to collect further information.

3.4 Statement of conservation policy The practitioner should prepare a statement of conservation policy that addresses each of the issues listed in 2.0, viz.: -fabric and setting; -use;

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3.5 Consequences of conservation policy The practitioner should set out the way in which the implementation of the conservation policy will or will not: (a) ~hange the place including its setting; (b) affect its significance; (c) affect the locality and its amenity; (d) affect the client, owner and user; (c) affect others involved.

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Following the preparation of the conservation policy a strategy for its implementation should be prepared in consultation with the client. The strategy may include information about: (a) the financial resources to be used; (b) the technical and other staff to be used; (c) the sequence of events; (d) the timing of events; (e) the management structure.

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5.3 Graphic material Graphic material may include maps, plans, drawings, diagrams, sketches, photographs and tables, clearly reproduced.

Material which does not serve a specific purpose should not be included.

5.4 Sources All sources used in the report must be cited with sufficient precision to enable others to locate them.

All sources of information. both documentary and oral, consulted during the task should be listed, whether or not they proved fruitful.

In respect of source material privately held, the name and address of the owner should be given, but only with the owner's consent.

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PROC'EDURES FOR UNDERTAKING STUDIES AND REPORTS These guidelines for the preparation of professional studies and reports were adopted by the Australian national committee of the International Council on t-.fonuments and Sites (Australia ICOMOS) on 23 April I 988. They should be read in conjunction with the Burra Charter .

Contents 1 .. 0 Preface 2.0 Agreements between client and practitioner

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1.0 Preface These guidelines make recommendations about professional practice in the preparation orthestudies and reports within the terms of the Burra Charter. Attention is also drawn to the advice about ethical, procedural and legal matters provided in the practice notes issued by various professional bodies.

2.0 Agreements between client and practitioner Before undertaking a stud:· or report,. the client and the practitioner should agree upon: (a) the extent of the task, for example, up to the

preparation of a statement of significance, up to the preparation of a statement of conservation policy or up to the preparation of a strategy for Imp I em entation:

(b) the boundaries of the place; (c) any aspect which requires intensive investigation; (d) the elates for the commencement of the task,

submission of the draft report and submission of the final report:

(c) the fee and the basis upon which fees and disburse­ments will be paid;

(f} the use of any joint consultant, sub-consultant or other practitioner with special expertise;

(g) the basis for any further investigation which may be required, for example, within the terms of 7.0 below or .~ection 3.3 of Guidelines to the Burra Charter: Conservation Policy;

(h) the representative of the client to whom the practitioner will be responsible in the course of the task;

(i) the sources, material or services to be supplied by the client including previous studies or reports:

(j) any requirements for the format or reproduction of the report:

(k) the number of copies of the report to be supplied at each stage;

(I) copyright and confidentiality; (m) how the authorship will be cited;

(n) the condition under which the report may be published or distributed by the client, the practitioner or others;

(o) the procedure for any required exhibition of the report;

(p) the basis for comment upon the report and any consequent amendment;

(q) the responsibility for effecting archival storage in accordance with Article 28 of the Burra Charter.

3.0 Responsibility for content of report The content of the report is the responsibility of the practitioner. The report may not be amended without the agreement of the practitioner ..

4.0 Draft report .It is useful for the report to be presented to the client in draft form to ensure that it is understood and so that the practitioner may receive the client's comments.

5.0 Urgent action If the practitioner believes that urgent action may be necessary to avert a threat to the fabric involving, for example, stability or security, the practitioner should immediately advise the client to seek specialist advice.

6.0 Additional work Where it becomes clear that some aspect of the task will require more investigation or more expertise than has been allowed within the budget or the terms of the agreement, the practitioner should advise the client immediately.

7.0 Recommendations for further investigations In respect of major unresolved aspects of cultural significance, conservation policy or of strategies for implementation of conservation policy, recommendations for further investigation should be made only where: (a) the client has been informed of the need for .such

investigation at the appropriate stage and it has been impossible to have it undertaken within the budget and time constraints of the task;

(b) further information is anticipated as a result of intervention in the fabric which would not be proper at this stage, but which will become appropriate in the future.

Such recommendations should indicate what aspects of cultural significance, conservation policy or implementation might be assisted by such study ..

• 8.0 Exhibition and comment The report for any project of public interest should be exhibited in order that interested bodies and the public may comment and reasonable time should be allowed for the receipt and consideration of comment. Where public exhibition is not appropriate, comment should be sought from relevant individuals, organisations and specialists.

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The' subject sit~ was held prior to 1810 by "Francis McKewin". The identity of this individual has not yet been precisely ascertained. He sold the site to john Holdsworth in that year. There were at least two persons with the name, john Holdsworth, one a convict and the other a sergeant in the garrison who mainly resided at Parramatta later in the decade.t It has not yet been ascertained which of these was the landholder involved with this property.

The Town of Sydney in vicinity of this allotment had been built upon quite early and George Street was shown as a continuous range of buildings here on Meehan's 1807 map. By the 1830s, it had become a most prestigious address with many of the most notable of Sydney's businesses located there. One account described how that part of George Street was "occupied

·on each side by a series of handsome and commodious private residences, as w.e11 as hotels, shops, and other places for supplying the public with an equivalent for their surplus cash"2 Immediately north of the· site was the Royal Hotel, which was not only a high class hotel, but, under the proprietor, Barnett Levey, became the venue of some of the earliest theatrical performances in Sydney.3

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Blanch acquired a significant role in the business of Sydney, becoming a . prominent and successful businessman as well as one of its most notable

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Grant, To james Blanch, George Street, Sydney. 1 rood 19 ~ perches, A11otment 4, Section 36, Parish of Stjames, Bounded on West by George Street, S 10" 30' E 102 lks, on South by Allotments 5 and 11, E 8" 30 N 279 lks, N 19" W 411ks, E 8• 30' N 104 lks, on the East by A11otment 12, N 9" 45' W 90 ~ lks, on the North by Allotments 13 and 3, W 7" 30'S 391 Y2 1ksl9

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the entrance road, W 15 feet and 6 }2 inche.s, thence south-westerly, 5 feet 2 ~ inches, westerly 51 feet 2 Y:! inches, to gateway now built over, westerly 39 feet, on West by George Street, 35 feet 10 inches.30

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----Benham, grocer, 390 George Street E. D. Cohen, City hall of Arts, watch and clock maker .. manufacturing gold and silver smith, optician, etc three doors south of the Royal Hotel, George Strect.31

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Leas~,· james Hale, Windsor, esquire to Alfred Fairfax, Sydney, grocer. Dwelling house and shop known as Number 394 George Street, Sydney, bitely occupied by Benham, .grocer. Bounded on south by premises of E. D. Cohen, jeweller. Plus stone store at the rear. For seven years at£ 156 p. a.32

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Alfred Fairfax, grocer, 394 George Street, Sydney; private res - Paddington House, Paddington.33

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Mortgage, Arthur Frederick Hale McQuade, Bomerah, Potts Point, Sydney, gentleman to john McLaughlin, Sydney, solicitor & Henry Michael McQuade, Windsor, gentleman. One-third share in will of james Hale. For £13,000. For 6· months at 7% p. a.37

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Conveyance and Settlement. 1st Arthur Frederick Hale McQuade, Potts Point, esquire (vendor), ·2nd Charles Carleton Skarratt, Summerh111 near Sydney, (settlor), 3rd Emily Carleton McQuade, wife of Vendor, 4th john McLaughlin, Sy~ney, solicitor & Henry Michael McQuade, Windsor, esquire . (trees), Sth john McLaughlin. In addition to money advanced on mortgage of 7 November 1887, a further sums have been advanced and vendor owes others £3,000. Thus, "the settlor fearing lest the vendor's interest in the said properties should be sold to pay the said debts and being moved by a desire to release the said Vendor from his pecuniary embarrassments and to make provision for his daughter the wife of the said Vendor and her children in manner hereinafter appearing has agreed to purchase from the said Vendor all his Equity of Redemption and other interests in the properties hereinafter described at the price of three thousand pounds and to settle it upon the terms hereinafter contained". Under will of his father William McQuade, Arthur Frederick Hale McQuade was to receive £3,000 to build a house. This has been built. Settlor has stipulated that that Arthur Frederick Hale McQuade assign hls interest to the trustees.M

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Agreement, Trees of will of Moses joseph with john McLaughlin, Sydney solicitor and Cecily McQuade, widow, trees of will of William McQuade .

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4.0 Additional Research required •

This report·is presented as a Draft. A limited amount of further work is required to complete it. This includes research in:

L Colonial Secretaris papers at A. 0.

2. The examination of some newspaper material. •

3. Some pictorial research.

Further research which would be required to completely fill out this report, but which will not be attempted due to bud~etary limitations are:

1: Rate and Assessment Books of the Council of the City of Sydney • •

2. A full economic biography of james Blanch

3. Hotel licences affecting the site in the nineteenth century

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MAPS AND PLANS- MITCHELL LIBRARY •

Armstrong, J, Blanc.b.'s Valuable George Street Property adjoining t.be .Royal Hotel to be sold by auction .... / M2/811.1724/1844/1 & 1 A.

Dove, H. Percy, Plans of Sydney, Sydney, 1880.

· Dove, H. Percy, Plans of Sydney Executed for Insurance Co01panies; [ 1882], Sydney.

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Meehan, james, Plan of t.!Je Town of Sydney in New South Wales, ] 1 October 1807.

Sydney Subdivision Plans, City of Sydney Area 811.1725

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Sydney Town, rough mapwith buildings, Harper, c. 1823. (originally S.268) A. 0. Map SZ43 5

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Plan of allotments between George, Liverpool, Elizabeth and Bent Streets, .. w. Harper, c. 1822, (formerly S.3.757), A. 0. Map SZ466

Plan of the allotments of ground in Sydney, G. C. Stewart (draughtsman), (originally SJ 3 ), 1825, A. 0. Map SZ469

Sydney Streets - Copy of plan of part of George Street between Bridge and Park Streets, M. W. Lewis, (originally S.l a.907), A. 0. Map 5544

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Certificates of Title, 1863 onwards

Dealings, 1863 onwards • '

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Grants Registers, 1792 onwards·

"Old Registers", 1802-25. (M. L. A3614, A3617)

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Town Surveyor, Notice Book for Buildings on Town Allotments, Dec 1827 ~ june 1832, 9/2700

Col Sec, Reports of the Commissioners of Claims, 1833-SS, 2/1785 (Rep on Mem 307) .

PRIMARY SOURCES - PRINTED BOOKS •

Census of New Sout.IJ Wnfes -November 1828, edited by Malcolm R. Sainty & Keith A. johnson, Library of Australian History, Sydney, 1980.

Cenernf .Afuster and Land and Stock .Afuster of New Sout.IJ Wales, 1822, ABGR, Sydney, 1988.

General Musters oJ'New South Wales Norfolk /.~land and Van .Die01an s land, · .. 1811, ABGR, Sy9ney, 1987

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Low, Francis, City qfSydney IJirectory for .1844-_5, Sydney, 1844.

Maclehose, james, Picture of Sydney and Strangers' Guide in N. S. W: For 1839, Sydney, 1839.

Sydney Commercial IJirectory for tlle Year 18..51, W. & F. Ford, Sydney, 1851.

PRIMARY SOURCES- NEWSPAPERS •

Austrlllili11. 1824-42 •

Sydney Gozette, 18 0 3-2 9 . •

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Dates of leases, agreements, transfers etc

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Lease and release: J. Blanch to Government Savings Bank

Conveyance: E. Deas Thompson to James Hale

Conveyance and Settlement: A.F.H. McQuade, C.C. Skarratt, Emily C. McQuade, John McLaughlin and H.M.H. MacQaude, and John McLaughlin

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Agreement between Government Savings Bank of NSW, E.R.E. Resch, John Bateman, and Reschs Limited

. February 1921 · Lease: E.R.E. Resch to Resch's Limited

March 1926 Lease: E.R.E. Resch to Reschs Limited • •

October 1928 Transfer: E.R.E. Resch to Arnold and E.R.E. Resch •

May·1931 Lease: A. and E.R.E. Resch to Tooth and Co.

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Lease: Tooth and Co. to P.J. Gadan

Lease: Tooth and Co. to P.J. cadan

Lease: Tooth and Co. to Archibald Wllllam Brown

Lease: Tooth and Co. to A. W. Brown

Lease: Tooth and Co. to A. W. Brown

Lease: Tooth and Co. to A.W. Brown

Lease: Tooth and Co. to A. W. Brown

Lease: Tooth and Co. to A. W. Brown

Lease: Tooth and Co. to A. W. Brown •

Lease: Tooth and Co. to A. W. Brown

Transfer: Tooth and Co. to Nlcopal Pty Ltd

Transfer: Nlcopal Pty Ltd to Myer N.S.W.

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John Bateman Maurice Lazarus Gerald Barry Edwin Francis James McCanley Timothy Crockett Myles McDonald Fred Field

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James Morris David Kearns Norbert McMahon William Colburn Richard Harris Patrick Cadan Archibald Brown3

James Isak

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elevation carried out 1938-1939. Cyril Ruwald, Architect. Alex Maston, Builder.H. and E. Sidgreaves, Shopfitters.

3 Brown was the son-in-law of Cadan, who died in 1949.

4 Under his 1975 lease, Isak had to acknowledge that he had no right to

compensation with closure of the hotel. Nicopal Pty Ltd was a company associated with Competitive Foods Ltd. Original intention was to include a Hungry Jacks at ground floor level, tavern on the first floor [if Tooths wanted it), and commercial space above. Property sold to Myer [N.S.W.) Limited in 1986.

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BATEMAN'S HOTEL · Gerald Barry

BATEMAN'S HOTEL Edwin Francis

BATEMAN'S HOTEL James McAnley

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BATEMAN'S HOTEL Myles A. McDoqald

HOTEL CRYSTAL Fred A. Field

HOTEL CRYSTAL Daniel Kearns

HOTEL CRYSTAL N. McMahon

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"DECORATION AND GLASS" MAGAZINE

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new ones qces on apace and designers are com­pelled tc c.lU on their inqenuity 10 the hmtt to c:mceh:e scmethinq that ts a:nerent. It ts a specialised !oranch cf desiyu. mcdern hotel c.rchilec:ur.:;o. t:dl!inq for d trecHment .thdl is .e:.t!r~~ :lve and showy- almost exhibition st~II ··and at the sa;ne time >uital:ie lor what is really a public i:utldin;. •

Colour has been explclted consu:ierai:ly in :rder :c •chl.ave the cheerful a::::cs10here ·...-hich is considered a desicie:atum. lr.1proved methods :1i manuiacture of several proci•JCts which have resulted in criqhter and mere !asunq colours have pro•,eci Invaluable to hotel desiqners. The qreater use of qlass and qlass prcduc:s and briqht metals has also been o{ qreat <tssistanC'$.

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REMODELLED SYDNEY HOTEL

The c:>mplele !emcdeliinq of :h,. Taller Hotel. Georqe Street .. Sydn.;,y, IS an· "xamp:a ,;,i 'Nhat Is l:e:nq .Ccne in this reqord. The- ¢l:;:cspher.g has Ceen so c:;:mplctely cha~gej thlt ;l~== dd hct.g)

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reeded qlass, treated In qrave, Doors are fitted with chrcmtum plated kick plates and three·bar push l:ars. Not ;nly is stainless steel used in :he horizontal l::ands of the ventilation qrille. but there are also narrower strips cl the metal cover­!nq the joints in the stonework.

Entry to the public l:ar ls direct !rem the street pa"ement •. Here the !lcor outside the counter !s rubl:er CO\'ered. the rubher beinq in an intricate ~Uern leatu::nq six colours. The walls are tiled . '

~:: !:uif sh~~~s. with red cehevinc; bands q.nd .:ex:u~ed s1:~:·~ce tc ·:he up):er p:::rttcn. Importar:t !n :he :auer ::re the panels of lnsulux glass bricks which cam: !iqht !rom the passage. which in :~:::~ !s 'iiqht-:d ~n the same way £rem th9 side !aneo~

The ~si'c1~:: c:.unu?:- :s p'~onneci "N;th twc sem~~ dro.:!'.~r ends end :he !rent lS til~ to harmcni::)e ".'IHh .:he wa!ts., Tht: ~:eJ:, ~Nhic'i:. t~places the c~d 1ype (oct rat!, is 1ill?ci. The deep nosinq is In stainless steel.

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Glass ts used on the canopy lace and is crno• :nented Wtth nonzontal lines ln qrave, Mirror qlass is also used effectively Ia lcrm a counter screen around the cash reqister.

Modern light fittinqs are suspended from the beamed cetilnq, which is treated plainly,, fitlinqs .;re :n the term o{ spheres ol glass en chromium suspensions.

R-sc!;!~3ed muq shelv'='s in .the wall tiiinq ..1re .u;sc '-' (~tll:..t:e cf the public bat~

A slidmq dcct ptOvJdes ~ccess to the c~rndot a: the side. Tns door ls of !lush panelled walnut "'"~ :; small c:rcul.;r qlass panel •

Ccuble doors lead !rom the ~treet to the com· d::r* ~...,hich ts th~ t;ntra.nce tc !he salccn Car and the resident:.;! ;:onion of the hotel. The corridor tWIP.rsP.s ;ho;; bll l"nqth of the public bar and <1dvant~g<; has i:~n taken of the side !ane to pre· vtde hqht. F~nels cl lnsulux glass bricks. ,set hiqh in the ·...-all-:he lane is used fer cart and

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The rubber floor of the corridor is in three colours, bla'*. red and brown, and the black margin is caved up the wall to form the skirting. The walls are flush panelled lor the lower por· lion. with a textured finish above,

The corridor opens into a square hall, frcm which the stairs ascend. entrance to the s-1lccn bar is obtained. and which accommodates the dlica and telephone l:ccths. The Iauer .ue :->::t• able fer the qrotve desiqn featuring a telephcnc instrument on the small qiass panel. A group ci windcws to the !ane .. with an insir:le flower l-ex .:.t th~ sill level. makes an interesting !eature.

The rubber flooring to the vestibu!~ is simt:e~ t:: that in the corridor and the walls are• finished ;::: :exture. A slidin:J pane! discloses the otlic-7 With a small ccunter and the neces54ry equ1;:• :nent in rear. Flush panelling. divided into squ.ues by V-Joints. extends tc the ceilinq in Hne with the counter lace. An electric clock l:i the decorative hiqhliqht.

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Over lhe double doors tc the 54loon bar. the na:;;e is spell out in melal leiters. The doors are similar lo these I rom lhe street. with grave decor· ale::i 'P4nels of broad reeded glass.

C::lour has been used even more cnlliantly In the saloon bar than in the ~c:i:lic. The rubi::~r ...,l ....... ::. 11-or h·s· "-r~w ··n· ~rr.c~ ...... e,· .... .a.J f~,~nt's'• _, ,...... ...... Q d ........ . :1._ • ..... :: :.. ! ..... ~.1 •••

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The walls or1te p?n~l!ed lc ~=~~::. .the ~::unt-:: • • :.ic:s.

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Th;, 'louw;e :;pens oil this l<>ndinq by m&dns :: "':.:-u·Cla ci.::c:s ::i ~iass .. '.lnd extends across the

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~·.;h:ch 1s m ~ Queensland maple surround, wlli'; ~ sh~!! cf Cia::k sr!UCtural qlass., Above is d iatc;;e ~.;.· ~!! :mtrcr., citvlded !nco sr.ull sections wuh ce·:eiled edge;. The walls are texlured <>nd the bea:ned ce11inq ts plainly trealed. Light lillmqs tt:a sunple .,-nclcsed bowls:

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THE ORIGINAL 1902 BUILDING IS A SIGNIFICANT EXAMPLE OF FEDERATION Pr.::I:;:HJIJ FREE~~TYLE~ ARCHIH:CTURE ANO IS A SIGI'liFICAI'lT ~:STRE:En::cAPE ELEMENT IN GEORGE ST LOCATED BETWEEN THE GRACE BROS CFORMERLY FARMERS) BUILDING GEORGE ST CNR MARKET ST AND T~!E DYMOCKS BUILDING 430 GEORGE ST (80TH NATICJNAL "fRUST LISTED 19208 BUILDINGS). IT XS IN GENERALLY INTACT CONDITION EXTERNALLY ABOVE AWNING LEVEL. <CRITERION F.1).

THE GROUND FLOOR FACADE IS AN IMPORTANT REMNANT OF 19808 FUNCTIONALNIST ARCHITECTURE IN SYDNEY. IT WELL DEMONSTRATES THE STREAMLINED FORMS AND NEW MACHINE FINISHED MATERIALS WHICH CHARACTERISED THAT PERIOD <CRITERION F.1).

SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATIONS: SIGNIFICANT DATE(S): _" __ ................... ~---··- .. -........ ~ ............ _ ........ _ ..... _ ..... .- -- ........ ~~ ......... -........ ~ ................... ·- .... ----·- .. _ -· ... ..

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· HISTORY: THE DATE 1902 IS SHOWN ON THE BUILDING. THE GROUND FLOOR FACADE AND INTERIOR WERE REFURBISHED C1938 IN THE STREAMLINED STYLE OF THl~ TIME: ..

DESCRIPTION: THE ORIGINAL 1902 BUILDING IS A FOUR STOREY LOAD-. BEARING BRICK STRUCTURE OF FEDERATION FREE STYLE CHARACTER. RENDERED DECORATIVE ELEMENTS CONTRAST WITH THE DARK BRICK- WORK, INCLUDING ROUND-ARCHED OPENINGS WITH KEYSTONE MOTIFS, PROMINENT STRING COURSES, AND A SYMMETRICAL PARAPET ARRANGEMENT WITH A DUTCH- INFLUENCED CENTRAL GABLE AND SCALLOP SHELL t1DTIFS. A BRICK t~ALL BEHIND THE PARAPET IS A LATER ADDITION.

THE GROUND FLOOR FACADE IS AN EXCEL.LENT EXAMPLE OF 19808 MODERNISM. IT rs CLAD IN POLISHED RED GRANITE AND IS GIVEN HORIZONTAL EMPHASIS TYPICAL OF TliE STYLE WITH CHROME 8ANDING1 AND STREAMLIN~D WITH CURVED GLASS WINDOWS.

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THE 1902 BUILDING IS IN GENERALLY INTACT CONDITION EXTERNALLY ABOVE

AWNING LEVEL, THE C1989 FACADE IS IN GOOD CONDITION. THE C1938 STREAMLINED HOTEL INTERIOR HAS RECENTLY BEEN REMOVED FOR CONVERSION TO A SHOE 880P. OTH~R INTERIORS WERE NOT SEEN. C1989J

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Refurbished c.l938, the Tatler Hotel is an excellent example of popular late thirties modernism, exhibiting typical stylistic features of this period. The front facade (to awning), in polished red granite, is given the favoured horizontal emphasis with chrome banding and "Streamlined" with curved glass shop windows. The Tatler sign, in sans serif chrome letters is also in the mode of the day. · ·

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Glossy veneer panelling to halls and staircase Original signwriting on doors to lavatories Ornate las er c

. With its original fixtures and features, the Tatler illustrates an important era in Sydney's architecture: when streamlined forms and 'new' machine finished materials symbolised modern expression. This new stylistic expression in fact is most exuberantly found in ephem'eral interiors like the Tatler, which with its original elements and virtually intact condition, is an excellent example of this period.

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COORAI.. SYDNEY HERITAGE INVEtHORY CaiPREilENSIVE REPORT

I.DCATIOH: 432-434 George Street, Sydney, 2000

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PREVIOUS USE: Hotel

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ARCHITECTURAL STYLES: Federation Anglo-Dutch

EXTERNAL CONDITION: Fair I«JI'BER OF STOREYS: 4 ORIENTATION: II

COHSTRUCTIOH MATERIALS EXTERIOR: Face Brick Stucco Detailing INTERIOR: ~DIFICATIOHS: Shopfront refurbishment c.1938. Interiors refurbished.

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Environ~~ental Heritage

HISTORICAL THEKE: Leisure and culture HERITAGE LlSTll«iS: NT ASSESSMENT: Of architectural significance as a presentation of a rare style in sydney buildings and of demonstrative significance

with its 1930s shopfront refit.

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ll. (L) The Councll sltnll tlot grant consent to a developmettt appUcatlon, whlch lf approved would allow wot:k with the potential to reveal significant evidence of earlier periods of occupation, unless it has considered a baseline archaeological assessment report. . '

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The Clty of Sydney Drafl LEP - Conservation of Envlronrnentnl Heritage, ls a. piAn pr(;'pnred undEc>r the Environmental Planning and .1\saessment Act, 1979 for till' purpose of conserving the Clty's heritage ltema. These heritage Items were Ldenttfled in a FJtudy undertaken by consultants as part of a joint exercise by the Sydney City Council and the Department of Planning. · ·

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. Nothing in this plan prevents the develoilment, including demo tit Lon of a heritage item. What tl does, however, ls identify those bulldlngs, parks, streetscapes and public works of heritage value and ensures that any decision affecting these items is taken in the knowledge of th•t item's heritage

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site. OnlY those heritage items which are lhe .subject of an appllcatlpn for the conservation of an item which has been confirmed as an .item of significance will be entitled to transfer floor area as compensation for the preservation and ~:estoration of that hedtage item. The amount of transfer allowable will

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The effective provlalons oE the plan cover Lhe following matters:

(n) Identify a runge tJC development~; (or which consent of CouncU is

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REQUIREMENTS FOR COUNCIL CONSINT FOR PUBLIC WO~S •

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Host of tliese works are usually under.taken by public aut hod ties and are often of a routine nature. The purpose of this requirement is to ensure that this work wlll, In the future, be undertaken In a manner that is sympjthetic to the heritage Item. Work that Is purely maintenance. or Wot:'k that is required to. ens~re public safety will be excluded from tl1e requirement .

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Uevelo~ment pr~posats affecting buildings or works which have been identified as heritage items but not already prote~t~~ by an ordet under the Herita~e Act' wlll be considered by the Centr::al Sydney Planning Committee. The plan requires thnt llu? Committee consider the significance of all buildings on the site and the impact of the pt:'oposal on those items. The plan also empowers the Council to require information to be submitted with the appllcatio11 to enable the Committee to consider the application on this basis. '

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The baseline action is used to assign an appropriate archaeological programme . .

. to those sites with no known chronological values by defining a per:lod (see table identifying procedures for chronological p~riods). For exam~le, a slt~ deve.loped during the 1950s may now be subject to a developm«:nt or: building appllcatlon. The recommended action for this per:lod of building is that the haselltte action is sufficient; there is no requir:ement for ntte investigation. -llowever, if that base Une research uncovers the probabU l ty r or: intact archaeological material of the 1870s, the level of archaeological action required for that site becomes that recommended for the ·pedod 1851 - L890 sites, L.e. a detailed watching brief with an option for Eurtl1er work ottly where this work can be.Justified. . •

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