Hospital 

Built-in 1917

The Hospital built-in stands to the north of the Administration Building and faces south of the vehicle driveway. 

A purpose-built hospital ward for males and females, in 2020 it is used as administration offices and is highly intact today known as Gunni House.

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

• Form, scale, and materials: low-set, symmetrical, boomerang-shaped, one-storey brick building with a prominent hip roof clad with terracotta tiles, tall central ventilation fleche, and roughcast chimneys; face brick walls with concrete dressings; front (southern) verandah with concrete floor, roughcast balustrade, brick and timber posts, and VJ-lined ceiling; projecting central entrance bay with roughcast walls and gable roof; projections from the rear (north) include a central octagonal room (operating theatre) and rectangular blocks at either end (ablutions); ventilated battened eaves; metal water goods; timber floors, plaster masonry partitions, sheet-and-batten-lined ceilings

• Layout: symmetrical (females to one wing and males to the other); large entrance hall surrounded by administration rooms, intersecting with a long transverse hall down each wing providing access to rooms on either side; includes former dormitory wards, nurses’ bedrooms, and verandah dormitories (later glazed-in) at either end of the verandahs, and central operating theatre and adjacent sterilizing room and ‘electrical treatment’ room; communal bathroom blocks

• Well-considered and variable ventilation of rooms including small windows above the verandah roof and below eaves into wards, high- and low-level windows of an operating theatre, large sliding windows of verandah dormitories 

• Joinery: multi-paned doors, fanlights, and windows; picture rails; 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; large bench seat in the entrance hall

• Details for high levels of hygiene including rounded corners (especially in the operating theatre), elimination of dust-catching joinery – use of scribed skirting

• Details for patient treatment including observation windows

• Original brass door and window hardware

• Early etched pattern glass in windows