Bald Rock Hotel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bald Rock Hotel
Bald Rock Hotel
Established 1876
Address 15 - 17 Mansfield Street, Rozelle, NSW 2039.

The Bald Rock Hotel is an historic pub in the suburb of Rozelle, overlooking White Bay in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is the oldest continuously licensed hotel still operating in the Balmain and Rozelle area.

Contents

[edit] History

Bald Rock was originally a suburb within the municipality of Balmain, so named because of the lack of vegetation in the local area. The hotel was built in 1876 and prior to landfill occupied a position close to the Bald Rock ferry, which carried passengers from Balmain to Erskine Street wharf in Sydney city.

[edit] Architecture

The pub is a heritage-listed, three storey building with facestone work to ground level and a simple hung awning over the street. The original construction was in the Victorian Filligree style, however removal of the upper level balcony and other modifications now leave a building in the Victorian Free Classical style. The hotel has retained the original sandstone interior.

[edit] See also

  • List of pubs in Rozelle

[edit] References

  • Davidson, B; Hamey, K; Nicholls, D; Called To The Bar - 150 Years of pubs in Balmain & Rozelle, The Balmain Association, 1991, ISBN 0-9599502-6-5.
  • New South Wales Government Heritage Register; Bald Rock Hotel; Accessed October 2006; [1]
  • Bald Rock Hotel website; Accessed October 2006 [2]

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: