Swanbourne Hospital Conservation Area

Child Places

• 03972 Hospital Director's Residence, Garage & Grounds
• 02667 Administration Building Swanbourne Hosp
• 02666 Montgomery Hall

Condition

The Administration Building is two storey with a brick and limestone external leaf, a Donnybrook stone portico to the central gable roof entrance and with faceted, hipped roof bays to either end. At each end there are flat roofed small wings with stone embattlements. The Stores Building is constructed of limestone and brick. The roof consists of queen post trusses supporting a corrugated iron roof with a timber tongue and groove ceiling. The building is in original condition with what appears to be original colour schemes still intact. The Male Attendants and Nurses Quarters Buildings are similarly designed brick and stone two storey buildings running east-west and enclosing the kitchen and courtyard formed by the Stores Building and the Hall. The two major rooms of the kitchen building consist of a kitchen and scullery. These are rectangular, high ceilinged rooms with queen post trusses, continuous roof lanterns and clerestory windows. Both rooms are of exceptional architectural quality. The Dining and Recreation Hall (Montgomery Hall) is a large brick and limestone structure with a clay tile roof, which was used as a dining and recreation hall as well as a centre where visitors could combine with patients in social activities. The hall has a large free span roof with decorative plaster ceilings, a sprung timber floor and a large sloping stage. The buildings are sited on 2.48 hectares of land. Most of the buildings were erected between 1904 and 1912 by the Public Works Department to plans drawn by J H Grainger in consultatioon with Dr S H H Montgomery who had, before leaving England, learnt something of the principles of asylum construction from Mr Hine, architect to the Board of Commissioners and a noted designer of asylums.

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