The Packing Shed and Patients Shelter

Built-in c1951

The packing shed and patient's shelter stands to the southwest of the cafeteria. It is a freestanding, brick, slab-on-ground building with a cross-shaped floor plan. Originally built to service the surrounding vegetable fields, it is highly intact and in 2020 is used as a storage for golf course maintenance.  Minimal changes include the removal of two walls from the vegetable storeroom, replacing its roof cladding from corrugated asbestos sheets with corrugated metal sheets, and adding a freestanding metal-framed shelter on the southern side.

Only the vegetable storeroom and packing area interiors were inspected.

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Features of the Packing Shed and Patient's Shelter of state-level cultural heritage significance also include:

• Form and layout: central open-sided vegetable packing area, adjacent vegetable storeroom to the west, farm equipment storeroom to the north, staffroom, staff and patient toilets (including urinal in patients' toilet) to the south, and a servery kitchenette onto an attached open-sided shelter for patients to the east

• Materials: concrete floors; face brick walls; flat sheet-lined eaves; timber-framed glass louvred windows

• Original fabric of the interior, including partitions, linings, joinery, and fixtures.