Nurses Home With Recreation Room

James Miller, 1929-1931. Imposing 2-storey and attic, 15-bay, T-plan, piend- and platform-roofed neo-Georgian nurses home with pavilion-type single storey and attic recreation room with transomed windows linked at rear. Sited to SE of hospital in small tree-lined garden on raised ground overlooking City of Perth. Principal entrance bays comprising blind portico with Ionic pilasters, consoled canopy and dentilled cornice over 2-leaf panelled door with multi-pane fanlight and flanking corniced windows; regular fenestration in vertical brick bands divided by broad pilasters; small wallhead dormers. Painted harl with contrasting red brick detail. Deep brick base course and eaves cornice. Architraved windows and brick voussoirs.

Principal elevation to NE with 3 slightly advanced centre bays forming entrance with moulded dies projecting above cornice, regular fenestration to flanking bays and to small wallhead dormers.

12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows and top-hopper windows, and multi-pane glazing to transomed windows. Grey slates. Coped harled stacks with some cans.

INTERIOR: little altered with plain cornicing, panelled doors, multi-pane screen doors and timber fire surrounds. Vestibules and washrooms with tiled floors. Recreation room retains plain cornicing, panelled timber dado, boarded floor, and timber fire surround with marble inset and cast iron grate.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: semicircular-coped brick boundary walls with square-section brick gatepiers and ironwork gates.