Buildings 2

Royal Exchange Hotel

The present building, which was built in 1865, replaced the original pug and pine building known as the Melrose Inn (1857). Licence was cancelled in 1877 and the building was converted to a General Store. 

Melrose Primary School

 Earlier schools were run in two pug and pine cottages and one in the Institute.  The SA Government built this school in 1879 at a cost of 1490 Pounds. It was designed to accommodate 80 children and has a teacher's residence attached (107 children attended in the first year)..

Masonic Lodge

Yate's Cottage

This is an example of a re-clad pug and pine cottage. A loan from the Oddfellows Lodge enabled C.P. Yates, Carpenter and Undertaker, to build this cottage. The cottage was partially restored in the 1970's by a local craft group. 

Keating's Cottage

This original pug and pine cottage was built in the late 1850's and is a fine example of how these cottages have been adapted to provide adequate housing for families for almost 150 years.  The early shingle roof has been covered with corrugated iron as have the pug and pine walls. 

Jacka's Brewery (formerly T.B.Marshall's Flour Mill)

This imposing building was originally built in 1878 as a Flour Mill for T.B. Marshall. J.H. Jacka transferred his brewing operations to this location in 1893. The Brewery closed in 1933 during the Great Depression.