The Administration Building

Built-in 1917

The Administration Building stands at the centre of the Central Administration Area.

A purpose-built as the medical offices building of the hospital with a small residence on the first floor, in 2020 it is used as administration offices and is highly intact.  It faces east onto the turnaround driveway off Ellerton Drive. A considerable collection of hospital complex-related paraphernalia is housed in cabinets in the medical superintendent’s office on the ground floor.

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Features of the Administration Building of state-level cultural heritage significance also include:

• Form, scale, and materials: low-set, symmetrical, narrow, two-storey brick building with a prominent hip roof clad with terracotta tiles, tall central ventilation fleche, and brick chimneys; face brick walls with roughcast render above sill height and concrete dressings; front porte-cochere with first-floor open balcony at the main entrance, adjacent to the driveway; rear (west) ground floor verandah with concrete floor, brick and timber piers, and VJ-lined ceiling; small curved porches at either end of the building forming secondary entrances; ventilated battened eaves; metal water goods including decorative rain heads; roof-mounted air siren; timber floors, plaster masonry partitions, sheet-and-batten-lined ceilings

• Layout: Wide central stair hall running from front to back in a series of vestibules including a ‘hall porter’s vestibule’, intersecting with a transverse central hall accessing offices on either side; ground floor includes a former surgery theatre, clerk's office with saferoom, and dispensary; first floor includes the former two-bedroom residence

• Joinery: Multi-paned doors, fanlights, and windows; moulded architraves, skirting boards, picture rails, and cornices; clear-finished hall porter’s office, wall panels, and main stair; wall-mounted WWI Honour Board (1916, originally hung in Hospital) and bench seat in entry vestibule; clear-finished display cabinets in former medical superintendent’s office and their hospital complex-related paraphernalia

•  Original brass door and window hardware 

• Saferoom and its heavy safe door and metal window shutters

•  Cement-rendered garden stairs at the south end of the building

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