Kemwah Court

Item details


Name of item:	Kemwah Court
Other name/s:	Imperial Hotel; The Bushman's Home; Milestone Hotel
Type of item:	Built
Group/Collection:	Commercial
Category:	Inn/Tavern
Location:	Lat: -32.2512188861 Long: 148.6001897750
Primary address:	195-197 Macquarie Street, Dubbo, NSW 2830
Parish:	Dubbo
County:	Lincoln
Local govt. area:	Dubbo Regional
Local Aboriginal Land Council:	Dubbo

Property description

Lot/Volume Code	Lot/Volume Number	Section Number	Plan/Folio Code	Plan/Folio Number
LOT	11		DP	601633

All addresses

Street Address	Suburb/town	LGA	Parish	County	Type
195-197 Macquarie Street	Dubbo	Dubbo Regional	Dubbo	Lincoln	Primary Address
Bultje Street	Dubbo	Dubbo Regional	Dubbo	Lincoln	Alternate Address

Owner/s

Organisation Name	Owner Category	Date Ownership Updated
	Private

Description


Construction years:	1882-
Physical description:	The site is on the south-western corner of the intersection of Macquarie and Bultje Streets. The hotel building occupies the eastern portion of the site with a customer and staff car park to the rear. A deciduous tree is immediately outside the Macquarie Street facade near the corner. The hotel is a freestanding one and two-storey late Victorian Italianate style hotel, made of brick, painted, with a hipped roof clad in corrugated steel. A single storey verandh roof extends over the footpath on the Macquarie Street elevation and partly along hte north side on Bultje Street. Windows and doors are timber-framed and of recent construction (Duggan, 2016, 2). The building is significant as a good example of a late 19th century Victorian Italianate style hotel (sic: ibid, 3).


Former use:	Hotel

History


Historical notes:	Built in 1882 at the south end of Macquarie Street, just when the (town's) northward shift began (State Heritage Inventory)

Historic themes

Australian theme (abbrev)	New South Wales theme	Local theme
3. Economy-Developing local, regional and national economies	Commerce-Activities relating to buying, selling and exchanging goods and services	(none)-
3. Economy-Developing local, regional and national economies	Commerce-Activities relating to buying, selling and exchanging goods and services	Innkeeping-
4. Settlement-Building settlements, towns and cities	Land tenure-Activities and processes for identifying forms of ownership and occupancy of land and water, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal	Townships-
4. Settlement-Building settlements, towns and cities	Towns, suburbs and villages-Activities associated with creating, planning and managing urban functions, landscapes and lifestyles in towns, suburbs and villages	19th Century Infrastructure-
4. Settlement-Building settlements, towns and cities	Towns, suburbs and villages-Activities associated with creating, planning and managing urban functions, landscapes and lifestyles in towns, suburbs and villages	Developing private towns-
8. Culture-Developing cultural institutions and ways of life	Creative endeavour-Activities associated with the production and performance of literary, artistic, architectural and other imaginative, interpretive or inventive works; and/or associated with the production and expression of cultural phenomena; and/or environments that have inspired such creative activities.	Architectural styles and periods - Victorian Italianate-
8. Culture-Developing cultural institutions and ways of life	Leisure-Activities associated with recreation and relaxation	Activities associated with relaxation and recreation-
8. Culture-Developing cultural institutions and ways of life	Leisure-Activities associated with recreation and relaxation	Gathering at landmark places to socialise-
8. Culture-Developing cultural institutions and ways of life	Leisure-Activities associated with recreation and relaxation	Going to the pub-

Procedures /Exemptions

Section of act	Description	Title	Comments	Action date
57(2)	Exemption to allow work	Heritage Act	general maintenance Order Under Section 57(2) to exempt the following activities from Section 57(1): (1) The maintenance of any building or item on the site, where maintenance means the continuous protective care of existing material; and (2) Garden maintenance including cultivation, pruning, weed control, the repair and maintenance of existing fences, gates and garden walls and tree surgery, but not extensive lopping; (3) Change of use, providing that this does not involve additions to the external bulk of the building nor adversely affect its heritage significance.	Mar 11 1988
57(2)	Exemption to allow work	Standard Exemptions	HERITAGE ACT 1977 ORDER UNDER SECTION 57(2) TO GRANT STANDARD EXEMPTIONS FROM APPROVAL I, Penny Sharpe, the Minister for Heritage, on the recommendation of the Heritage Council of New South Wales and under section 57(2) of the Heritage Act 1977: revoke the order made on 2 June 2022 and published in the Government Gazette Number 262 of 17 June 2022; and grant an exemption from section 57(1) of the Act in respect of the engaging in or carrying out the class of activities described in clause 2 Schedule A in such circumstances specified by the relevant standards in clause 2 Schedule A and General Conditions in clause 3 Schedule A. This Order takes effect on the date it is published in the NSW Government Gazette. Dated this 29th day of October 2025 The Hon Penny Sharpe MLC Minister for Heritage For more information on standard exemptions click on the link below.	Nov 7 2025

Standard exemptions for engaging in or carrying out activities / works otherwise prohibited by section 57(1) of the Heritage Act 1977

Listings

Heritage Listing	Listing Number	Gazette Date	Gazette Number	Gazette Page
Heritage Act - State Heritage Register	00544	02 Apr 99	27	1546
Heritage Act - Permanent Conservation Order - former	00544	11 Mar 88	52	1591
Local Environmental Plan		08 Feb 91
Local Environmental Plan	155	01 Jan 11

Study details

Title	Year	Number	Author	Inspected by	Guidelines used
Dubbo Heritage Study	1986		Perumal, Wrathall & Murphy P/L		No

References, internet links & images

Type	Author	Year	Title	Internet Links
Written	P.A.Duggan Architect & Heritage Consultant	2016	Heritage Impact Statement - Proposed NBN installation at the Milestone Hotel, 195 Macquarie Street, Dubbo
Written	Terra Consulting (Aust.) P/L	2003	Statement of Heritage Significance, in 'Statement of Heritage Impact for Kemwah Building

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Data source


The information for this entry comes from the following source:
Name:	Heritage NSW
Database number:	5045507
File number:	S90/06047 & HC 32241

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