An interior staircase in the administration block at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW. Polished timber floors and turned wood handrails.

Administration Staircase

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Red carpet runs up a timber staircase at Kenmore, Goulburn NSW, toward two tall multi-paned windows that throw pale rectangles across the wall and floorboards below. A fire hose reel, its brass fittings still intact, is mounted on the right wall beside the foot of the stair. Dry leaves have settled into the corners of the landing, and the wooden balustrade curves away toward the upper floor.

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In situ

Administration Staircase at The Asylum, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Administration Staircase at The Asylum, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Administration Staircase at The Asylum, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Administration Staircase
Series: Kenmore Asylum
Catalogue: KAS-001
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 March 2020
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 mm
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

An interior staircase rises through the administration block at Kenmore. The floor is polished timber, the boards laid wide. The handrail is turned hardwood, the balusters and newel posts shaped on a lathe and fitted into a stringer that follows the line of the stair. The treads carry decades of footfall at the centre, the edges still sharp. The walls around the stair are plastered and painted, weathered through patches of damp. The joinery is the older fabric in the space.

Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect, designed the complex that opened in 1895 as the first purpose-built complete site for mental health care in rural NSW. The State Heritage Register listing describes the Vernon core as the largest single body of his work and the finest corporate expression of Federation Free architecture in Australia. The Commonwealth Department of Health sold the property in 2003, and Kenmore was added to the NSW State Heritage Register on 1 April 2005 as the Kenmore Hospital Precinct, State Heritage Register item 01728. The complex is decommissioned and largely vacant.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A carpeted staircase rises from a ground-floor hallway, its turned newel post and dark timber handrail still intact. The treads are deep red, worn at the edges. Hardwood floorboards catch low light from a gridded transom window on the half-landing above. Dried leaves and debris scatter across the floor. A fire hose reel hangs bolted to the right wall, its brass valve and pressure gauge still connected. The walls are painted a muted grey-green, scuffed and scratched at shoulder height. Beaded timber panelling lines the ceiling.

Brett Patman

The series

Kenmore Asylum

75 photographs

Kenmore Asylum is a former psychiatric hospital on the Wollondilly River at Goulburn in New South Wales, opened in 1895 as the Kenmore Lunatic Asylum and later run as Kenmore Psychiatric Hospital. Walter Liberty Vernon, the first NSW Government Architect, designed it to the requirements of Frederic Norton Manning, Inspector-General of the Insane: pavilion wards of red brick with stone dressings under slate roofs, set in a V either side of a quadrangle, with a 54 ft clock tower over the kitchen and stores.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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