Hillside, Former Sunnyside Hospital, Water Tank and Former Workshops

Circa 1855-7; later additions. Single storey and attic, 5-bay, symmetrical, workshop complex in plain Jacobean style with integral, central 2-stage machiolated water tower to S elevation, forming courtyard. Coursed red sandstone to S elevation; coursed polychromatic sandstone to tower; rubble to other elevations. Ashlar margins, band course to tower. Rubble base course, raised margins and quoins. Flat-roofed and gabled dormers. Some segmental-arched window openings. Later top stage to tower.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Slightly advanced tower to centre with recessed, moulded, round-arched doorway; partially in-filled; pair of slim round-arched windows in recessed panel to 1st stage; machiolated cornice; later top stage. Flanking 2-bay sections with shouldered, corbelled dormers breaking wallhead; outer bays with bipartite window openings with stone mullions to ground and corniced, flat-roofed dormers above.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 6-bays. Gabled bay to left; Pair of bay windows to ground with fish-scale slates to roof; one with decorative iron brattishing. Shouldered, corbelled dormers breaking wallhead.

COURTYARD: rectangular plan. Segmental-arched opening leads to pend under tower. Some timber boarded doors.

INTERIOR: (partially seen 2012). Some original rooms intact. Simple cornicing and some timber boarding. Staircase with barley-sugar twist balusters and timber handrail.

Some multi-pane and single-pane timber sash and case windows; other windows boarded. Grey slates, raised skews. Gable and ridge stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods with some decorative hoppers.