A narrow corridor leads to a heavy timber door, swung half open. Checkerboard floor tiles disappear beneath flakes of fallen paint. The walls are bare plaster, cracked and peeling from the right side in thick curls. A green exit sign hangs above the door frame. Light spills through the gap, catching the debris scattered across the floor. The air looks dense, still. Damp plaster and old wood. Lewisham Hospital operated as a private Catholic hospital from 1941, run by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary. The original building dated to the late nineteenth century. The hospital closed in 2002 after services transferred to Canterbury. It sat empty for years, deteriorating behind locked gates in Sydney's inner west.