Addresses
Type of place
Hotel (pub)
Period
Interwar 1919-1939
Style
Free Style
This is an image of the local heritage place known as Morrison Hotel
Hotel Morrison
Addresses
Type of place
Hotel (pub)
Period
Interwar 1919-1939
Style
Free Style
The Hotel Morrison was built in 1927, the last in a series of hotels on and around the site. Historian John McClurg has suggested that the Hotel Morrison was originally the Duke or Cornwall and later the Brittania Hotel. Mary Elizabeth Henderson purchased the site in 1927 and is believed to have constructed the building shortly afterwards.
Also known as
Brittania Hotel
Lot plan
L5_RP20298; L4_RP20298
Key dates
Local Heritage Place Since —
Date of Citation —
Construction
Roof: Corrugated iron;Walls: Face brick
Criterion for listing
(A) Historical; (B) Rarity; (D) Representative; (E) Aesthetic; (E) AestheticInteractive mapping
Also known as
Brittania Hotel
Lot plan
L5_RP20298; L4_RP20298
Key dates
Local Heritage Place Since —
Date of Citation —
Construction
Roof: Corrugated iron;Walls: Face brick
Criterion for listing
(A) Historical; (B) Rarity; (D) Representative; (E) Aesthetic; (E) AestheticInteractive mapping
History
The Hotel Morrison was built in 1927, the last in a series of hotels on and around the site. Historian John McClurg has suggested that the Hotel Morrison was originally the Duke or Cornwall and later the Brittania Hotel1. The Post Office Directories suggest the original hotel was on the opposite corner and that the current site was purchased in 1927 for the present hotel1. Mary Elizabeth Henderson purchased the site in 1927 and is believed to have constructed the building shortly afterwards.
Description
This predominantly brick hotel has a truncated corner that is oriented towards the intersection of Merton Road and Stanley Street. Prominent on this corner is the building signage at the upper level. This has the building’s date of construction at the top and the words “Hotel Morrison” running down the corner in capital letters flanked by floral mouldings. The building’s name also appears in horizontal signs centred on both of the side elevations on the parapet.
Six evenly spaced, double-hung windows run along each of the building sides. A continuous terracotta tiled sun-hood supported by ornate brackets shades both these rows of windows. A rendered band runs at sill level below the upper windows. Diamond shaped brackets spaced evenly between the windows are attached to the rods that support the cantilevered street awning.
The parapet is articulated at the ends and beside the truncated corner, with an unusual gable treatment of an inverted semi-circle cut from a raised section of the parapet. An ovolo moulding the line of the parapet including the semi-circular sections.
Below the line of the awning the brick walls are tiled up to just above the sill level of the lower windows. The variety of openings at this level seem to bear no relation to the regularly spaced upper level windows. Behind the brick façade the building had been extended by a hipped roof addition with brickwork of an unsympathetic colour.
Statement of significance
Relevant assessment criteria
This is a place of local heritage significance and meets one or more of the local heritage criteria under the Heritage planning scheme policy of the Brisbane City Plan 2014. It is significant because:
References
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John H.C. McClurg, Historical Sketches of Brisbane, p. 24
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Post Office Directories.
Citation prepared by — Brisbane City Council (page revised June 2022)