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National Trust Register · Residence record

Cottage 15 — Carpenters Residence

Community ResearchLast modified 21 November 2023

The following Description, Reason for Listing and Photo are sourced directly from the National Trust Register records, reproduced here for reference and accessibility.

Description

This residence, now the venue for the Social Welfare Department of the Hospital, is a small single-storeyed T-shaped brick building, to which timber additions have been made. Around three sides of the room which projects to the west there is a verandah on timber posts. The roof is of terracotta tiles, the brickwork is laid in English bond and there is a polygonal bay with faceted roof.

Reason for Listing

Part of a significant Federation period institutional complex of fine buildings and landscape. A good intact example of a small residence designed in the office of the first Government Architect.

Photos

Photo record reproduced from the National Trust Register.

SourceNational Trust Register — Record sighted.