[11] In 1958 the owners opened the state's first drive-through bottle shop with vehicular access from Stirling Highway.

[11] In 1986 Marie Wordsworth, the daughter of Bertie Johnston, commissioned architects, Overman & Ziudeveld, to undertake extensive remodelling of the building, which included landscaping works and the expansion of the ground floor space to make it larger and more viable for functions.

The bottle shop is located in the car park, and accessed from Stirling Highway and Stanley Street.

[11] The hotel displays characteristics of Inter-War Mediterranean/Spanish Mission style of architecture, with arched openings, supported on pre-cast concrete twisted columns, first floor balconies, a central Dutch influenced gable, steel framed windows and arched entry supported on masonry columns.

[11] The bottle shop has rendered and painted masonry walls, with a distinctive asbestos clad butterfly roof and steel framed windows.