Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora.

A number of changes in the joint tenants resulted in the transfer of the property to Albert and Hannar Edmunds, George Laird and R. G. Holdings in 1950.

Hallam Limited were the proprietors in 1925 and the property was leased to Osbourne Henry Harding and Victor Read (mercers) for the first and second floor in 1923.

[5] The former Skinner's Family Hotel is a three-storey building with cellar designed in the Old Colonial Regency style.

The facade features narrow small pane windows with rendered frames and projecting hoods which appear original, grouped in singles and pairs while the main internal space on the first and second floor features a wide window of three sections topped by a pediment.

The main entrance at ground floor level features an attached ribbed pilaster with Ionic capital supporting an entablature and hood.

[1] The former Skinners Hotel, located at the corner of George and Hunter Streets is highly significant as one of the few Old Colonial Regency buildings remaining in the city.