Collingwood Hotel

The Collingwood Hotel, formerly Holgate House, is a house dating to circa 1775, with alterations from the early and late 19th century. It is constructed of brick in Flemish bond, with hipped plain tile roofs. The main block is symmetrical, three storeys and three bays wide, with two-storey, single-bay wings to the left and right. The main block features two brick storey bands, and its windows are glazing bar sashes. Ground-floor windows have corniced canted bays on brick bases, while upper-floor windows have painted brick flat arches. A late 19th-century brick porch has round-headed windows in its side walls, a cornice, and a blocking course. It incorporates a re-set 18th-century doorcase featuring fluted Doric pilasters with attached narrow pilaster strips, console brackets, a cornice hood, and a semicircular overlight. The door itself has six raised and fielded panels. The gutter cornice is dentilled and modillioned. The left-hand (east) wing appears to be an early 19th-century rebuilding of an earlier annexe, containing a sashed window on the ground floor and a glazing bar sash on the first floor. The right-hand wing has glazing bar sashes, with the head of the ground-floor window cutting through a brick band. A narrow late 19th-century addition is located to the right, under a separate hipped slate roof; its front wall is blind, but has a recess at ground-floor level. Chimneys are present with rebuilt stacks to the left of the main block and placed axially to the right of the ridge. Other chimneys are visible to the right of the main block, towards the left of the ridge, and to the right of the right-hand wing’s ridge. Inside, a central stair hall features an elliptical, geometrical staircase in three flights, with turned balusters and a mahogany handrail. The interior also contains a re-set door and doorcase dating to circa 1770, and two fireplaces of a similar date with pilastered surrounds on the first floor. Lindley Murrey, an Anglo-American lawyer and grammarian, resided in the house for over 39 years until his death in 1826.