Grandview Hotel
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Building in 2015
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| Location | 49 North Street, Cleveland, City of Redland, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°31′23″S 153°17′09″E / 27.523°S 153.2857°ECoordinates: 27°31′23″S 153°17′09″E / 27.523°S 153.2857°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | c. 1852 |
| Built for | Francis Edward Bigge |
| Official name: Grandview Hotel, Brighton Hotel, Cleveland House | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600771 |
| Significant period | 1850s-? (fabric) c. 1852-ongoing (historical use as boarding house or hotel) |
| Significant components | out building/s, fireplace |
 Location of Grand View Hotel in Queensland
Location of Grand View Hotel in Queensland
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Grand View Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at 49 North Street, Cleveland, City of Redland, Queensland, Australia. It was built c. 1852 onwards. It was also known as Brighton Hotel and Cleveland House. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The core of this complex of buildings was erected in the early 1850s for the Hon. Francis Edward Bigge, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, who purchased the site in August 1851.
In the 1840s and 1850s squatters from the Darling Downs and Ipswich interests urged for recognition of Cleveland Point, which had served as the port for Dunwich during the convict period, as the port for Moreton Bay. Francis Bigge, a grazier from Mount Brisbane Station, was one of the leading lobbyists. In the early 1850s he invested heavily in industry and housing at Cleveland.
The earliest section of the hotel, built as a prominent demonstration of confidence in Cleveland's future development, appears to have been erected by 1852, but appears to have remained unoccupied for several years. Known colloquially as Bigge's Folly, and formally as Cleveland House, it contained two sitting rooms and five bedrooms with a kitchen and servants' rooms connected via a covered passageway. The core was surrounded by a 3 metres wide verandah.
From 1855 to 1860 John Vincent Cassim, a Kangaroo Point boarding house keeper, leased Cleveland House as a boarding establishment. Stabling, a coach-house, store and tap were erected in mid-1860. By 1862 the building had been leased by publican William Rae as the Brighton Hotel, with its own bathing-house and jetty, and 10 tonne pleasure cutter.
The building also served as a venue for Anglican services prior to the construction of St Pauls Anglican Church nearby in 1874.
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