Former Recreation Hall, Bangour Village Hospital

The Former Recreation Hall at Bangour Village Hospital was designed by Hippolyte J Blanc, starting in 1898 and completed in 1907. This symmetrical, seven-bay Edwardian Baroque building features gabled and buttressed architecture and is located at the center of the hospital site, facing south. It is constructed from roughly coursed and snecked stugged sandstone, with smooth ashlar dressings, and includes a base course, band course, and cill course on the south elevation, as well as a cornice. The building has raised cills and shouldered segmental-arched roof dormers on the east and west sides, with a pyramidal roof to the north. The east and west elevations are adorned with round-arched multi-paned windows.

The south elevation is symmetrical, featuring a three-bay central section with a shouldered gable and flanking single-storey, two-bay entrance wings. The ground floor has corniced tri- and bi-partite window openings with stone mullions, while the upper storey showcases a central Venetian window flanked by rusticated pilasters that rise to the breaking gable wallhead, along with a cornice. A slit window is located at the gable apex. The flanking single-storey bays are slightly advanced and feature segmental-arched doorways with moulded doorpieces and recessed entrance doors.

The east and west elevations are similar, each with seven bays arranged in an irregular pattern. Advanced porches on the north side include segmental-arched doorways and moulded doorpieces.

The interior, as seen in 2011, retains a well-detailed classical decorative scheme with its original layout largely intact. It features a shallow-arched panelled roof with decorative plaster corbels and cornice, which is slightly lower in the side aisles. The walls are lined with dado-height timber panelling. The stage area includes decorative mouldings on the proscenium arch and timber panelling supporting the apron. There are corniced doors with moulded timber doorheads, some part-glazed swing doors, and a later parquet floor. The windows predominantly feature multi-pane fixed glazing patterns, with some timber sash and case windows having a 6-over-6-pane configuration. The roof is covered with grey and green slates.