Staff Restaurant, Ici Works, Ardeer

This is a symmetrical, single-storey former staff restaurant, designed by George J. Miller of James Miller & Son and built in 1938. Originally a temporary pavilion for the Empire Exhibition, it was later re-sited at Ardeer. In the 1960s, a two-storey flat-roofed canteen section was added to the southwest. The building is a steel and timber-framed structure, with cream-painted asbestos cement cladding. It has very steep pitched roofs covered with brown pantiles, although a significant portion of the roof structure was lost in 2021, and sections have been replaced with slates. The windows are multi-paned sash and case windows, featuring small square panes and chunky astragals, with some openings now blocked.

The north elevation has five bays between projecting gables, with doors alternating with windows. The doors feature tall, multi-paned grid-pattern glazed fanlights. The symmetrical, curvilinear gables are accented with chunky scrolls and semi-circular pedimented aspices; the central bay of each gable is slightly advanced and contains doors with rectangular grid-glazed fanlights and canted entablatures. Windows in the gables have been blocked, with simple niches below the semi-circular apex. A two-leaf panelled door is in the right-hand gable, and a different two-leaf door with Spanish-style curved glazing at the upper panels is on the left. These doors are flanked by narrow sash and case windows.

The side elevations each have five bays with 18-pane sash and case windows at ground level.

The east entrance elevation, originally the principal facade facing water at Dominion and Colonial Avenue, features an elaborately detailed door with sweetheart curved moulding above a low, glazed two-leaf door and diagonal astragals culminating in a glazed “keystone.” Flanking windows and a blocked gable-head window above further enhance the detailing. Two red tiled steps lead to the door, mirroring the north elevation.

The rear (south) elevation is more basic, with smaller nine-pane windows at ground level. It features straight-edged gables with simplified Dutch semi-circular pedimented aspices and kneelers midway, with some fabric lost from the rear roof following damage and collapse in 2021.

The interiors are currently derelict.