Sites

The Caddies Compound is a large rectangular complex consisting of a long structure of stretcher bond face brick, with large regularly spaced steel framed windows (central-pivoting with a fixed pane section either side) on the outer facades and with a plastered continuous concrete lintel over the windows, covered by a hipped roof with slate shingles on the outer roof plane and corrugated sheet metal on the inner roof plane, with regularly placed brick chimneys on the roof ridge, the whole formed around a large open central courtyard, with a centrally placed face-brick gateway and gate on the north-western façade. The central court is surrounded by a colonnade of rectangular brick columns with flaring concrete bracket capitals and a lean-to veranda with corrugated sheet metal roof, and with timber framed doors and central pivoting steel framed windows on the inner facades. A small roofed wash-up area consisting of a rectangular concrete floor with steel columns and a corrugated sheet metal roof, over a bank of wash troughs fed by water supply pipes from above, is situated in the south west side of the courtyard. This element is fairly unique, and has historical (social and architectural) merit.