Heritage Hotel Dorrigo Page 5 of 16 Heritage Hotel Motel Dorrigo Doors opened 13th August 1925. 5 al h rs e o t. This brochure describes the hotel’s heritage features. If you are staying in or visiting the hotel you could read this brochure as you follow the walking directions it contains. Start your walk on the opposite side of Cudgery Street outside the antique shop looking south towards the hotel. As well as the north facing verandah, Elene created two other places to dry washing. The first was down in the cellar where the motors for the cool room generated heat. Clothes lines were placed in the motor room and clothes dried there. The second was in the kitchen. By fuelling the combustion stove after serving dinner was completed and hanging sheets across the kitchen they could be dried. Two clothes lines were strung from the kitchen door wall to the kitchen window wall. The kitchen work benches were pushed to the sides of the kitchen to allow the full drop of the sheets. Elene then climbed on to each work bench and pegged one side then another side of the sheets to the clothes lines as the Feros children handed the sheets and pegs up to Elene. To continue your heritage discovery, enter the hotel via the Cudgery Street corner bar door. Photo taken in January, 1927 As shown in the photo above, the parapet of the Hotel Dorrigo was originally plain cement render left unpainted. Plain render was an acceptable building finish in the 1920's The parapet is now painted to create, with the hotel bricks, a background for the wrought iron balustrade. The balustrade colour is yellow to match the yellow strip in the tiles at ground level. This yellow strip is continued on the parapet. The window lintels and sills were also originally plain render. Two examples can be seen on the window and door behind the bistro counter. The photo above shows washing drying on the north facing verandah of Hotel Dorrigo. Drying washing in the Hotel Dorrigo’s early decades was always a challenge, as Dorrigo averages 154 rainy days per year. The average rainfall is 1,932mm per year. Dorrigo’s record amount of rain in one day occurred on 21 February 1954- 809mm! st st
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