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on either side of the main entry with a light pole located in the centre. These were originally designed as flower beds.

  Some sandstone sills and string courses were replaced in 1986-87 and some patching of sandstone has previously been undertaken.

  The sandstone has generally deteriorated with some joints opening up and spalling. This has been investigated and has been recently conserved and protected.

  The roof is a flat roof, originally a membrane but with metal roof over the galleries. This was recently repaired. The rainwater heads and downpipes are copper.

  There are some lower level windows that provide light on the basement which are of ribbed glass block. Some of the original blocks have been removed and replaced by louvres. There are ventilating holes to the basement on the east and to the upper level on the north and south.

  Windows adjacent the main entry include decorative bronze grilles.

  Window frames are bronze coloured.

  The north and south sides have no ground floor window (as they are a theatre, library and galleries) but the upper windows have internal and external windows with a 200mm gap. The original glass was "tapestry" obscured glass which appears to remain, except for those damaged in the January 2020 hailstorm.

  Other elements include a goods hoist installed in 1986-7 to the south side for basement access, a nitrate bunker to the south which is a concrete building with earth mounded on three sides and a concrete and steel balustrade access ramp to the north (infrequently used).

  The Annex

  The Annex was constructed in 1998. The two-storey building (with plant and services in located in the large basement) has a flat projecting copper roof with copper rainwater heads and downpipes similar to the main building.

  Walls are sandstone or sandstone coloured precast concrete. The west side has a pattern of panels and windows with coloured spandrels not unlike the pattern to the east side of the main building. Windows are bronze coloured aluminium. The north and south sides are mainly bronze colour aluminium louvres to plant areas.

  The main entry to the west is glazed and includes granite stairs and a granite ramp.

The Residence

  The Residence is a two-storey rendered brick cottage with tiled roof. It is generally in quite good condition except for the internal cracking which is quite extensive and damage to the tiled roof due to hail in February 2020. The 2004 advice from John Skurr, structural engineer, made the following comment:
    1. the overland flow of the surface stormwater was not satisfactory in itself and is also concluded
    as the most likely cause of the general cracking in the external and internal brick walls.
    b.     cracked internal and external brick