Hillside, Former Sunnyside Hospital, Garage and former Fire Station

Early 20th century. Single storey, symmetrical, 5-bay former garage and fire station (originally a stable), incorporating dwelling house to SW. Pinned rubble with smooth ashlar margins. Raised cills; eaves course. Key-stoned, segmental-arched, window and door openings (boarded). Decorative timber ridge vents.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Central wide, segmental-arched, key-stoned and quoined entrance doorway with metal finialled, flattened gable above. Flanking, single-window piended-roof bays. Finialled, gabled outer bays with small segmental-arched window to gableheads

E ELEVATION: 5 bays. Asymmetrical. Gabled, finialled bay to far right with large, altered, opening.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical. Gable to far left with gable stack.

All openings boarded. Piended roofs to centre with gabled roofs to end bays. Raised skews and swekputts. Grey slates. Gable stacks. Some timber sash and case window apparent.

INTERIOR: (partially seen, 2012). Large open space with cobbled floor with dividing, part-glazed timber screen with sliding doors. Some openings with moulded architraves. Further storage rooms with little decoration. Boarded timber roof.

WEIGHBRIDGE: to SE. Intact metal weighbridge on ground, inscribed; 1922 to weigh 15 ton, H Pooley & Son, Ltd, Birmingham & London.