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Buildings 61-62: Horticultural Buildings

Buildings 61 and 62 are horticultural buildings south-west of the wall of the Wall Garden. Building 61 is rectangular in plan, with pitched corrugated roof, and brick walls in English Garden bond. Its gable-end window has simple brick surrounds with a concrete lintel and a projecting half-brick cill. The building has three bays of timber double doors and is located in a partially-asphalted courtyard, opposite an iron-railed livestock ramp.

Building 62 is set perpendicular to Building 61, and is a concrete-based rectilinear structure with a half-cylindrical corrugated asbestos cement sheeting roof: a Nissen hut. The gable ends are timber planking, both with doors, ventilation overlights and windows. Two dormer windows are set into its north elevation. Traces of canvas interior screening remain, and there may have been timber floorboards over the concrete pad base.

Both buildings are associated with the late 1950s stage of hospital expansion. It has been recorded that early temporary 40-bed “corrugated iron huts” were erected during the First World War; there is a slight possibility, therefore, Building 62 represents these early temporary huts, repurposed (and possibly re-sited) and used as a gardening shed.