Lakeview Hotel Motel

The Lakeview Hotel Motel sits on a street with sightlines to one of the Illawarra lakes, the property name making the connection at the kerb-side sign. The building is two-storey, brick, with the pub at the ground floor and motel accommodation in the upper rooms behind a continuous balcony walkway. An external steel staircase climbs from the carpark to the upper walkway at one end. The brick is dark, the trim a contrasting cream. The carpark is empty in the small hours. A single security light at the staircase end throws warm cones across the asphalt. The bar window at the ground floor is dark; the property has wound down for the night.

The Lakeview was photographed at 01:24 on 7 April 2018, on the south Illawarra run of Hotel Motel 101. The project covered 101 traditional Australian motor inns across three sweeps out of Sydney in late March and early April 2018: south on the Hume and Princes Highway corridor, north on the Pacific, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. The pub-motel hybrid was a standard mid-century Australian configuration, with the publican's-licence ground floor supporting motor-inn accommodation upstairs.