Norwood’s Family Hotel on sale for $1.4 million

ONE of Norwood’s oldest pubs is for sale and you could live in it.

The former Family Hotel, at the corner of George and Williams streets, is on the market for $1.4 million.

It includes eight bedrooms, three bathrooms and three kitchens and has eight fireplaces, two pub-sized cellars and four stables.

Janine Gosbell, 66, is selling the 1858 Coach and Horses Inn at 105 William Street, Norwood. Pic: Tricia Watkinson Source: News Corp Australia

Janine Gosbell bought the property in 2000 and has spent the past 15 years decorating it a style fitting its 1858 vintage.

Each room is filled with Victorian-era furniture, paintings and decor.

One of the lounge rooms. Picture: Tricia Watkinson

She is selling it for family reasons.

“It’s not just a house to me, it’s my passion — it’s my entertainment,” Ms Gosbell says.

“I go to second-hand shops looking for that right piece for this one room — it’s tied up in everything I like.”

Ms Gosbell has fixed verandas, balconies and wiring and installed ducted heating and cooling, but more could be done to make it suitable for a family.

Inside the Family Hotel, which was one known as the Coach and Horse Inn. Picture: Tricia Watkinson

“I’m seven-eighths of the way there, which is sort of sad,” she says.

“Ideally, I’d love to see someone buy it and finish the job as a family home.”

The pub was known as the Coach and Horses Inn when it opened in 1858 but changed its name to Crampton’s Family Hotel in 1868 and then the Family Hotel in 1880.

It closed on March 9, 1909, during the temperance movement, along with 36 other pubs on the same day, and was used as a boarding house until bought by Ms Gosbell.

The stables in the backyard. Picture: Tricia Watkinson

Agent Robert Maiolo, of MyHouse Real Estate, says the building could be turned into apartments, student accommodation, a bed and breakfast or a home office.

“The combination of location, layout and its landmark nature offer many possible alternate uses for the property other than as an imposing family residence,” Mr Maiolo says.

Norwood, Payneham & St Peters Council heritage adviser Denise Schumann says the state heritage-listed pub is “very representative of the colonial life of Norwood”.