Precinct Conversion
Medical Precinct Conversion
A transformation: turning an old circa 1913 house into medical consulting rooms. Keeping the best of the old and knocking down the rest. Then taking the most appealing period features and replicating and reinforcing these throughout as we extended the building to accommodate its new purpose.
How did we blend the new with the old? A new roofline: lifted, reconfigured and extended to perfectly fit the enlarged space below, with the original bullnose verandah welcomed back. New gables featuring pressed metal inserts that exactly match that in the old gable. Reclaimed Tamworth Red bricks, sourced to match the original bricks and laid in the same aged pattern. Feature rendering caps the new windows.
Inside, the high ceilings and period features continue; with decorative plaster cornice, wall vents and ceiling roses and colonial timber trims. Highlights above the new doors match those above the old. And the reception desk with its scroll corbels looks completely at home.
But as a working business location, most importantly this needed to be functional and fulfil the owners’ requirements. So to welcome patients is a sealed carpark with some undercover parking available and wheelchair access to the premises, and a serene entrance zone. Staff benefit from a new carport built in matching style to the main premises. Inside are consulting rooms, a peaceful waiting room, treatment room, disabled bathroom, staff room, and an efficient reception/administration zone. Privacy is provided through tinted windows. Easy-clean, hard- wearing finishes abound.
The end result: Through respectful additions, a period home which had seen better days has been restored and given a new life and purpose that should see it last at least another hundred years.
But as a working business location, most importantly this needed to be functional and fulfil the owners’ requirements. So to welcome patients is a sealed carpark with some undercover parking available and wheelchair access to the premises, and a serene entrance zone. Staff benefit from a new carport built in matching style to the main premises. Inside are consulting rooms, a peaceful waiting room, treatment room, disabled bathroom, staff room, and an efficient reception/administration zone. Privacy is provided through tinted windows. Easy-clean, hard- wearing finishes abound.
The end result: Through respectful additions, a period home which had seen better days has been restored and given a new life and purpose that should see it last at least another hundred years.
