Rockingham Hotel Walls

Statement of Significance

Aesthetic Value: the walls form an attractive accessway between Kent Street and Rockingham Beach the trees form a well-known landmark and are visible from both Kent Street and Rockingham Beach Road

Historic Value: the walls are constructed of the local limestone, originally quarried from the East Rockingham district and used to build a large number of early structures throughout Rockingham the place is associated with Reg Grigg (from the hotel) and Ted Lewington (from the Roads Board) who were credited with planting the trees, as well as a number of the trees in front of the hotel

Social Value: the place is valued by the community as a long-standing and popular site of social and recreational activity, and as the remains of once extensive public gardens the trees are valued by the community for their association with
the development of Rockingham in the 1940s into a popular resort, and with the Rockingham Hotel and its surrounding gardens which were the focus of social activities

Physical Description

Random rangework stone walling, comprising lower sections of wall separated
by regularly spaced square stone piers, approximately 1700mm high. The
westernmost section of wall, closest to the hotel also has tubular steel balustrading.
The walls form an accessway between Kent Street and Rockingham Beach
Road, and also define the edges of the hotel beer garden.
Four Norfolk pine trees (Araucaria heterophylla), each approximately 30m
high, located to the east of the Rockingham Hotel. Three of the trees are
grouped near Kent Street, and are part of the hotel’s beer garden. The other
tree is located at the northern end of the hotel walls which extend towards
Rockingham Beach Road.
The four trees are visible from both Kent Street and Rockingham Beach Road
and combine with the Rockingham Hotel to form a well-known landmark.

History

The four Norfolk Island pine trees comprise the only remaining plantings of
what was a well-used and admired garden at the Rockingham Hotel.

Integrity/Authenticity

High

Condition

Good

Uses

Creation Date

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