Saint Stephen's Hospital

Detached multiple-bay single-storey hospital ward, built 1954, having central projecting bays with recessed verandah to front (south) elevation, and central projecting bays to rear (north) elevation having recessed entrance bay. Flat roof with timber bargeboards and eaves. Rendered end walls, corrugated-iron cladding to rear walls, and timber battened cladding to front walls. Pilotis to verandah. Full-width strip window with vertically divided steel fixed and casement windows with pivoting overlights to front elevation. Square-headed timber-framed openings with steel fixed and casement windows having pivoting overlights to rear elevation. Glazed timber double doors with horizontally divided sidelights to rear entrance. Square-headed openings to west and east elevations with timber battened double-leaf doors and overlights.

Part of large coherently planned group of hospital structures, built as Tuberculosis Sanatorium under Doctor Noel Browne as Minister for Health. Frankly modern in style, the flat roof, strip windows, pilotis, and minimal adornment are typical of mid-twentieth-century institutional architecture and evidently informed by Le Corbusier's work. Like many of the hospital structures, the south elevation benefits from large glazed areas made possible by twentieth-century building technology. Part of a remarkably complete and well preserved scheme, enhanced and contextualised by mature grounds.