Main Block, Woodilee Hospital

Woodilee Hospital's main block, designed by James Salmon and Son, along with Salmon Son and Ritchie and W. Forrest Salmon, showcases Jacobean architecture. The building was constructed mainly between 1871 and 1894 and features a symmetrical layout with a long linear plan. It consists of a tall two-storey central block and towers, with two and three-storey wings and linking buildings. The exterior is made of snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, a ground floor cill band, and a cornice. Windows include one, two, and three-light casements with stone mullions and transoms, as well as nine and six-pane sashes, with plate glass in the central block. The transverse wings have shaped gables with pointed apex pediments, finials, and oculi on the north front, while the garden front has segmentally shaped gables. The building features a blocking course raised to a parapet at the wings, axial stacks, and slate roofs.

The north front of the central block has seven unequal bays arranged in a pattern of 1-2-1-1-1-2-1, with the outer bays canted and advanced, and the central bays projecting. A coupled column Roman Ionic portico with a balustrade sits over the entrance. Above the entrance, there is a square clock tower with corner finials and timber louvres. The parapet is balustraded in the center, with segmental pediments on either side. Two larger towers rise three stages above the roof line at the rear, featuring tall mullioned and transomed windows at the lower stages, open colonnaded cupolas with bell-cast roofs, colonnaded finials, and wallhead stacks that break through the balustrade, topped with segmental pediments and corner finials. The two-storey rear building has halls on each floor, canted windows on the rear elevation, a piended roof, and corner tourelles at the skyline, along with a simple linking parapet.

Inside the central block, the ground floor hall is supported by cast-iron columns. The first-floor hall features fluted Corinthian pilasters, a corniced and compartmented ceiling with carved timber details, and corniced, pedimented doorpieces. Arched landings are located to the right and left.