Hillside, Former Sunnyside Hospital, Booth House

John Alexander Ogg Allan, 1931-35. Long, 2-storey and attic, near symmetrical, with 3-storey gabled end wings, H-plan, Arts and Crafts former nurses' home (now offices, 2012). Painted concrete harl, with contrasting ashlar stone margins. Base course, deep eaves to upper and lower mansard slopes; dormers abut upper eaves. Rectangular window openings, some round-arched openings to S. Some bi- and tripartite window openings. Flat-roofed extension to E.

S ELEVATION: symmetrical. 2-storey and attic, 16-bay central section with projecting 3-storey, gabled end bays. Central, advanced, single-storey, 5-bay, flat-roofed porch with large, key-stoned, round-arched window openings and stone piers and railings to roof, forming balcony to 1st floor; moulded architraves. End bays with 5-light, canted bay windows to ground; 4-light windows to 2nd and 3rd storey and slit-window openings to gable.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Central advanced 2-storey and attic bay with wide, key-stoned, moulded, round-arched entrance opening; recessed, multi-pane, glazed, 2-leaf entrance doors with glazed fanlight and side panels. Flanking stone panels with carriage lights. Tripartite window openings above with single attic dormer.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical. 3-storey, 9-bays. Off-centre gabled bay with canted 4-light bay window to ground. Prominent wallhead stacks.

Predominantly multi-pane metal casement windows with top-opening hoppers. Mansard roof to central section. Ridge and wallhead stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Raised skews to gables.

INTERIOR: (seen 2012). Fine interior decorative scheme; original layout largely intact. Full-height, panelled lobby and entrance hall with multi-pane glazed screen with central swing doors. Some engaged polygonal-plan timber columns. Dog-leg stairs with moulded timber banisters and curved newels. Timber dado panelling to ground floor corridor with part-glazed doors, fanlights and sidelights. Upper storeys with boarded timber doors with panels of opaque glazing; residential rooms with integral pointed-arched wardrobes.