title: Milestone Hotel, Dubbo
text: # Milestone Hotel, Dubbo
  
  Milestone Hotel is a heritage-listed Australian pub at 195–197 Macquarie Street, Dubbo, Dubbo Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was built in 1882. It is also known as the Imperial Hotel; The Bushman's Home; and Kemwah Court. The property is owned by a private entity. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
  
  ## History
  
  Built in 1882 at the south end of Macquarie Street, just when the town's northward shift began.
  
  In 2018, the building continues in use as the Milestone Hotel.
  
  ## 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 verandah roof extends over the footpath on the Macquarie Street elevation and partly along the north side on Bultje Street. Windows and doors are timber-framed and of recent $construction.^{:2}$ The building is significant as a good example of a late 19th century Victorian Italianate style $hotel.^{:3}$
  
  ## Heritage listing
  
  Kemwah Court was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
  
  