Male Patients Area

The Male Patients Area is highly intact and comprises patient buildings arranged in an L-shape along the inside of two intersecting straight roads (Hogg Lane and Barrett Road) around two sides of a large Recreation Grounds.

The features of the Male Patients Area of state-level cultural heritage significance include:

• Layout of Buildings and Landscapes, Views

• Recreation Grounds (by 1895)

• Fleming House (1898, extended c1917)

• Gladstone House, Jenner House, and Kelsey House (all 1936)

• Men’s Bathroom Block (1902)

• Lewis House, McDonnell House, and Noble House (all 1915)

• Osler House (1928), Pearce House (1934)

• Cemetery Site (1895-1912)

The layout of Buildings and Landscapes, Views

The buildings are laid out in an evenly spaced, ordered manner along a high curving ridge with clear open spaces around and between them. They have a service access road (Hogg Lane and Barrett Road, formerly highly secured by fences) on one side.

On the other side is the Recreation Grounds, which the buildings look out over and patients were allowed controlled access.

The grounds have been contrived to provide a calm outlook from the buildings and achieve security and supervision of patients.

The buildings are visually striking individually and as a group of similarly-scale structures in a formal, consistent arrangement standing in a planned landscape, which heightens their strong institutional character.

The area is uninterrupted by later development or infill and is especially evocative when viewed from the Recreation Grounds.

The views of state-level cultural heritage significance include

• From the buildings and their immediate yards out across the manicured Recreation Grounds and beyond to a fringe of bushland growing in the Gailes Golf Club

• Panorama from the Recreation Grounds to the buildings, particularly from the cricket pavilion.