Female Bathroom Block

Built-in 1902

The female bathroom block also known as Dawson Annexe stands to the east of Dawson House.

Built as a communal women’s bathroom, it was converted for use as a workroom/sewing room for female patients (1935) then as a ward (1955), and in 2020 is used for archive storage.

In 2024 the wooden extension was demolished which appeared to have significant wood rot.

 

Features of the Female Bathroom Block of state-level cultural heritage significance include

• Form, scale and materials: rectangular form with ventilated Dutch-gable roof clad in corrugated metal; face brick walls with contrasting arches over windows, rendered base and sandstone sills; concrete floor; plastered interior masonry walls and partition

• Evidence of original and early layout including partition nibs and archway (enclosed)

• Joinery: timber-framed multi-paned windows, with fanlights

• Timber-framed and clad extension to the western end, with a skillion roof and ceiling lined with timber boards

• Small masonry extension to the northeast corner, with a skillion roof and scribed ashlar rendered finish.