nextDecember 2005
The Lindis Pass Hotel was built in the 1880s as part of the network of hotels which sprung up in the Central Otago Gold Rush.
It began as a simple single bay stone building but expanded rapidly until it included more than seven rooms. A corrugated iron-clad wing was added as some stage but this has disappeared.
The building was used as a private home after the gold began to dwindle and was abandoned in the 1950s. By the time DOC took over the place in 2005, it had lost its roof, most of its windows and some of the walls had deteriorated or collapsed. The site was a popular picnic and camping place, being located beside the Lindis River, and so work needed to be carried out to secure it.
DOC proposed that it should be preserved and stabilised as a ruin and a conservation plan and detailed scope of works was prepared in order to preserve it as such. This included rebuilding the collapsed wall and stabilising others as well as construction of a stone and lime mortar coping on the tops of all the walls. The stone repairs were carried out by Keith Hinds of St Bathans.
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