The existing building is amplified with a traditional verandah detailed as a modern interpretation of the homestead vernacular. The bowser roof form is balanced by a new complementary roof extending the dining space. Adjacent to the indoor dining is an outdoor undercover beer garden with a contemporary structure, the traditional rhythm maintained with colonnades flanking to provide sun protection and habitable landscaped threshold spaces.

As a truck stop with a predominance of cattle trucks the diagonal brace framing language of these trucks is echoed throughout the design with an actual carrier retrofitted and upgraded as a planting frame with terraced seating creating a fence and outpost at the end of the buildings journey. The first and last space at the !irst and last hotel.