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Halse Lodge, Heritage lodge in Noosa, Australia.

Halse Lodge is a two-storeyed timber guesthouse with a hipped corrugated iron roof, set on a northwestern rise above the Noosa River and Laguna Bay. Its U-shaped plan wraps a south-facing courtyard, with a two-storeyed accommodation wing to the northwest, a single-storeyed caretaker's residence wing to the southwest and a two-storeyed amenities wing to the northeast. A long driveway leads in from Noosa Drive to the west.

The site has hosted seaside lodging since the early 1880s, when Walter Hay advertised Bay View in 1882 as a ten-room house on five fenced acres. Substantially rebuilt in the 1920s, it became Hillcrest Guest House. The Anglican Church acquired it in 1959 and renamed it Halse Lodge after Archbishop Reginald Halse. It joined the Queensland Heritage Register on 30 April 1997.

The name Halse Lodge dates from 1959, when the Anglican Church bought Hillcrest Guest House and renamed it after Archbishop Reginald Halse. A 1944 guest book shows visitors from Brisbane, interstate and overseas recording their impressions in verses and sketches.

Halse Lodge stands at 17 Noosa Drive, reached by a long driveway from the road to the west. The building is a working guest house with about 60 beds, so non-guests should arrange any visit with the managers in advance. The U-shaped plan puts the courtyard on the south side, with the two-storeyed accommodation wing to the northwest.

A 1944 guest book from the Hillcrest years records visitors from Brisbane, elsewhere in Queensland, interstate and overseas, and some were moved to leave verses and sketches of the house and its setting. The building has run as a guest house since the early 1880s.

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