Heritage Hotel, Bulli, Historic hotel in Bulli, Australia
The Heritage Hotel is a three-storey corner pub at 240 Princes Highway, Bulli, built in 1889 in the Victorian Filigree boom style. It has verandahs, dormers and a central tower with iron lace. It was designed by William Kerwood and built by McDonald Brothers for landlord George Croft at a cost of £3,078.
Designed by William Kerwood and built by contractors McDonald Brothers for landlord George Croft at a cost of £3,078, the Family Hotel was licensed on 28 September 1889, with William Tory Dickson as first licensee. It closed on 1 April 1976, was restored by owner Eric Blain and reopened in January 1984, and took the name Heritage Hotel on 8 August 2000.
The hotel's name changed from the Family Hotel to the Heritage Hotel on 8 August 2000, a shift that followed its 1984 reopening under owner Eric Blain. Its Victorian Filigree boom-style facade, with verandahs, dormers and a central tower in iron lace, remains a landmark on the Princes Highway streetscape south of Old Bulli.
The pub stands on the corner of Princes Highway at 240, south of Old Bulli, in the streetscape shaped by the railway. Its three storeys, verandahs, dormers and central iron-lace tower are best seen from the street outside. The building closed as a hotel on 1 April 1976 and reopened in January 1984.
The first licensee was William Tory Dickson, previously proprietor of the New Brighton Hotel at Lady Robinsons Beach. When it opened, the Sydney Mail described its "colossal proportions and replete appointments", and the house held a public bar, several parlours, a dining room, a billiard room and 28 bedrooms.
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