Goolwa Hotel
An 1853 stone hotel on the corner of Cadell Street, still trading after 170 years, with the salvaged figurehead from the Irish sailing ship Mozambique displayed on its facade.
Trading since 1853
The Goolwa Hotel has been continuously licensed and trading on the corner of Cadell Street since 1853, making it one of the oldest pubs in continuous operation in South Australia. The current building is a fine bluestone Victorian pub built in stages from the 1850s onwards.
The figurehead
The most distinctive feature of the building is the carved wooden figurehead from the Irish sailing ship Mozambique, which was wrecked off the south coast in the 1850s. The figurehead was salvaged and mounted on the hotel's facade where it has weathered for more than 150 years - one of the few surviving 19th-century ship's figureheads on display anywhere in Australia.
What it is now
The hotel is still a working pub - serving counter meals, local wine and beer (including beers from the Steam Exchange Brewery a few hundred metres along the wharf), and standard pub accommodation upstairs. It is part of the Goolwa Wharf State Heritage Area.
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