page_title: Maryborough Base Hospital
section_title: 1887 former Ward and Centre Block (now C Block and Centre Block)
hierarchical_section_title: Maryborough Base Hospital / Description / 1887 former Ward and Centre Block (now C Block and Centre Block)
caption_attribution_description: English: Architectural Plan of the Maryborough Base Hospital, 1888
context_page_description: Maryborough Base Hospital is a heritage-listed hospital at Walker Street, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Queensland Colonial Architect John James Clark and built from 1887 by Robert Taylor. It is also known as Maryborough General Hospital. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 2 February 1998.
context_section_description: Two of the three nineteenth century buildings on the site, C Block and Centre Block are now substantially disguised by later accretions, although many of these additions could be removed to reveal the form of the original buildings. The buildings, which are now linked to one another by a covered walkway, were two storeyed brick structures surrounded by open verandahs.
  C Block, one of the original ward blocks, is not immediately recognisable as a nineteenth century building, as the two storeyed verandahs surrounding the building have been infilled with a c. 1960s brick envelope through which aluminium framed openings are punched. The complex hipped roof of the original structure is evident above these verandahs and this retains an early corrugated iron cladding.
  Internally the building has been renovated but retains many interesting features including an early stair hall and an open ward on the first floor. This ward, which has plaster rendered walls and a raked timber boarded ceiling, is an example of nineteenth century pavilion planning.
  Centre Block, like C Block is a two storeyed face brick building, with most of its verandahs infilled. The original corrugated iron clad pyramidal roof and verandah awnings are evident. Internally the building retains an early ground floor layout, with several rooms featuring nineteenth century timber joinery, fireplaces and openings. The early entrance to this block is a large double timber and glazed door surmounted by a round arched fanlight and all surrounded with aligned glazed openings and although some of the glazing has been replaced, this doorway survives substantially intact.
caption: Architectural Plan of the Maryborough Base Hospital, 1888
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