THE owners of the Rose & Crown will be the recipient of a state heritage grant to help remove and replace the hotel’s veranda.

The $100,000 grant from the major conservation category will go towards a project worth about $500,000, which includes the use of salvaged and re-used timber where possible or new like-for-like materials.

It also includes the installation of new timber decking for the veranda floor.

The hotel was built in Guildford in 1841 by Thomas Jecks who moved there in 1839 to open a general store.

According to inHerit the place with its surviving hotel buildings, including the cellars containing the well and the stables at the rear, demonstrate a way of life no longer practised.

Midland MLA Michelle Roberts welcomed the grant for the project saying it would help with significant restorative works that the owners Mark and Tracy Weber were doing at the hotel.

“The Rose and Crown is an important part of Guildford’s heritage,” she said.

“I was delighted when we were able to formally heritage list Guildford by placing it on the state register of heritage places, back in 2019.”

Heritage Minister David Templeman said the 2024-25 heritage grants program would deliver more than $3.47 million in conservation works and projects across Western Australia.

The inherit listing said the two-storey building was colonial-Georgian with original detail intact.

“The cellars are below ground-level, underneath the 1860s section of the Rose & Crown Hotel,’’ the listing said.

“They were probably built for storage of beer and wine, and other provisions for the hotel.

“The external and internal walls are of brick, the thick internal walls having round-arched doorways to allow access from one part of the cellars to another.’’

“There is a well set into the floor of one section, the water of which was reputedly used for beer making when the hotel did its own brewing in the 19th century.”