Survey Data
Reg No
12508077
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Maryborough District Lunatic Asylum
Original Use
Outbuilding
Date
1890 - 1900
Coordinates
248150, 198530
Date Recorded
29/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey with loft over, hospital outbuildings, built c.1897, now disused. Pitched slate roof with two lucarnes, brick stack to ridge, red brick cornice, barge boards to gable and lucarne, cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughly coursed limestone walls with hammer-dressed quoins. Square headed paired window openings with red brick block and start surrounds and stone sills, square headed door openings, two lucarnes with loft doors to front elevation, loft doors to end gables with the remains of a pulley hoist over eastern gable door, small windows to rear. Windows have all been blocked up, sheeted timber loft doors, four pane overlight survives over western ground floor doorway.
Appraisal
A well detailed outbuilding, with a suggestion of the Arts-and-Crafts style, softening its institutional feel. Its original function is unclear. On the OS map, surveyed 1907, it is indicated as a Fever Hospital. Good quality craftsmanship is reflected in the execution of the hammer dressed quoins and red brick surrounds. The contrast between the limestone rubble masonry and the red brick adds to its attractiveness. Although now disused it forms an integral part of the hospital complex.