Robertson Country Motel, Robertson

The Robertson Country Motel sits in the village of Robertson on the Illawarra escarpment, the building single-storey brick with the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The brick is pale, the trim a sandstone-toned cream along the fascia. A pole sign at the kerb carries the property name in a serif face on a backlit panel, with a small country-scene graphic beside the lettering. The carpark is empty in the small hours. The cool-climate landscaping along the front of the property includes a row of mature exotics; Robertson sits at altitude, with a climate distinct from the coastal strip below.

The Robertson Country Motel was photographed at 00:42 on 8 April 2018, on the Southern Highlands 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. Robertson is best known as the village where the 1995 film Babe was made; the village's preserved nineteenth-century streetscape sits at the top of the Macquarie Pass climb up the escarpment.