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Visit the Hotel and enjoy a beer in the bar or lounge, or a coffee at the tables outside. The Skipton Hotel was built out of bluestone in 1857 by James Madden and John Tait. The original building had a balcony along the front-and also had a stable at the rear which the Cobb and Co. coach used. The local Mortuary was also here. There have been many different publicans since those days.
A bullock dray taking wool bales to Geelong or Ballarat outside the Skipton Hotel probably about 1860. On the right behind the Hotel is the stables and on the hill behind the stables is Dunrobin, built in 1855 now restored and still used as a dwelling.