Captain Stirling Hotel, Heritage hotel in Nedlands, Australia
The Captain Stirling Hotel is a two-storey rendered masonry and tile building at 80 Stirling Highway, Nedlands, designed by Marshall Clifton in 1935 in Inter-War Mediterranean/Spanish Mission style. It has arched openings on pre-cast concrete twisted columns, first-floor balconies, a central Dutch-influenced gable, steel-framed windows and an arched entry on masonry columns. A courtyard sits below footpath level at the front.
Built between April and December 1935 for Edward Bartram "Bertie" Johnston, the hotel was designed by George Herbert Parry and Marshall Clifton and constructed by E. A. Allwood for £10,000. It was the first of three Inter-War Spanish Mission style hotels by Parry & Clifton, followed by the Inglewood Hotel (1935) and the Big Bell Hotel near Cue (1936).
The hotel's name links it to Stirling Highway, the road on which it stands at number 80, between Stanley Street and Florence Road. The building was put up in 1935 for Edward Bartram "Bertie" Johnston, and newspapers of the day credited the licence application to N. B. Robinson, Johnston's solicitor, who filed it while Johnston was out of the state.
The hotel stands at 80 Stirling Highway between Stanley Street and Florence Road, with a courtyard set below footpath level at the front. The bottle shop sits in the car park, reached from Stirling Highway and Stanley Street, and a car park behind both buildings is entered from Florence Road and Stanley Street.
The drive-through bottle shop opened in 1958 with vehicular access from Stirling Highway, designed by Bill Evans of Marshall Clifton's practice with a butterfly roof. Its rendered masonry walls and steel-framed windows sit in the car park, reached from Stirling Highway and Stanley Street.
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