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The bond store

1834 to 1994: storage. 1994 to 2003: building site. Since 2003: a hotel.

The store was built in 1834 for a firm of merchants trading whale oil to London. The stone was cut from the quarry above Battery Point by convict labour and hauled down to the cove. The walls are 0.9 metres thick at the base. The upper floors rest on hardwood beams that came from the Huon valley and are still in place.

Behind the store, across a cart way, the firm built a lower range: a cooperage, where casks were made and repaired, and stabling for the drays. Oil came in by sea, went into casks, and went out by sea again. Wool and grain followed when whaling ended.

Storage stopped in 1994. Conversion took until 2003. The bays on each floor became rooms, the cart way was roofed in glass, and the glass room was added on the wharf side in steel. The cooperage kept its walls, its floor and its name.

A long room with glass walls, a steel frame and a timber table with pink chairs
  • Built 1834, convict-cut sandstone
  • Last cask made 1909, in the rear range
  • Hotel from 2003, sixteen rooms
  • Salamanca market Three minutes on foot

On Sullivans Cove

Sketch map of Sullivans Cove, Hobart The city grid sits at the top left with the mountain beyond it. The cove opens to the right, with two piers reaching into the water. The hotel is marked on the shore of the cove, south of the piers. Salamanca Place runs south from it as a row of stores, and Battery Point rises beyond. The river runs along the right edge. kunanyi city centre piers Sullivans Cove River Derwent Tasmeri 17 Morrison St Salamanca Place Battery Point N ↑
The store sits on the cove between the piers and Salamanca Place, with Battery Point to the south and the mountain behind. Distances approximate.

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