Assistant Medical Superintendent’s Residence & Garden

Built-in 1912

The Assistant Medical Superintendent's Residence stands west of the Medical Superintendent's Residence.  This former family house built for the assistant medical superintendent is highly intact and in 2020 the rooms accommodate offices with little alteration to the original fabric. It retains its original open garden setting with a former tennis court terrace.

The house faces south down the sloping terrain across Gailes Golf Course out to the surrounding landscape and distant mountains.

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Features of the Assistant Medical Superintendent’s Residence and Garden of state-level cultural heritage significance also include:

• Form, scale, and materials including single-storey low-set timber-framed and -clad residence; asymmetrical plan form with projecting hexagonal bay window (dining room, added c1938) and verandah wrapping front and sides; broad rear dining verandah (excluding later enclosures); hipped roof form continuous over verandahs; face brick chimneys; verandahs including timber balustrades, board floors, ceilings, posts, and stairs; single-skin internal partitions; VJ wall and ceiling linings

• Timber joinery including moulded architraves, picture rails, panelled doors, fretwork fanlights, multi-paned windows, window seats (dining room)

• Pressed tin ceilings

• Original and early brass door, fanlight, and window hardware

• Spacious open garden setting with mature trees including cocos palms and dense screening trees on the west side; former driveway approach from the north; terraced grounds to the south (location of a former tennis court); rendered masonry garden stairs including concrete lion statues

• The expansive vista from the front of the house and the garden to the south to the Golf Course and mountains beyond.