Maryvale Pastoral Centre

Maryvale Pastoral Centre is a country house, dating from 1886-7, designed by Ralph Neville, with the Great Hall modeled by J. Bentley. The construction utilizes sandstone rubble and brick at ground level, tile hanging above, and includes timber framing with render and brick infilling on the gables and entrance front. A diaper brick bay is present on the front. The building has plain tiled roofs. It is constructed on a long, rectangular plan with numerous cross gables, built into a hillside with an arched basement storey facing the garden. The house is two storeys high, with attic space within gabled dormers in the eaves and roof. It features massive corbelled stacks on the ridges and ends.

The entrance front has irregular window arrangements, mostly with leaded, plain casements, with a single-storey service building to the left. A single-storey brick and stone porte-cochere is located to the right, with moulded plinths and arched openings. The porte-cochere leads to massive double doors set within a stone, chamfered surround. The garden front features a terrace extending out over eight arches, alternated with buttresses. An end gable to the left showcases a front stack and one window on each floor. A framed gable bay features mullioned and transomed windows over three floors, with a polygonal bay to the left of centre, capped by a turret roof. Two large gabled bays to the right have projecting angle bays rising through two floors under hipped roofs; one includes a massive hall oriel window containing stained glass.

The interior of the house includes rooms with Jacobethan detailing, such as diamond pattern wood parquet flooring and panelled ceilings with rosettes and modillion cornices, particularly on the garden front. One room features scroll-capped, fluted pilasters on walls on diamond pattern pedestals. A fine fireplace overmantel is present with scroll brackets, fat baluster supports, and gadroon decoration. Pedimented door surrounds are also seen. The Great Hall, designed by J. Bentley, incorporates square panelled ceilings, panelled walls, and a gallery with side staircases, all in a Jacobethan style. It has a coved roof cornice decorated with animal motifs and a ceiling with a trefoil section. A deep fireplace recess is present, along with a panelled gallery spanning three bays. A chapel, potentially formerly a library, is panelled with a deep panelled ceiling.