The single storeyed Quarantine Barracks building has a simple rectangular plan, 24 metres by 7 metres. It is of balloon frame construction, with ship-lap weatherboard cladding on the exterior and match-lined timber on the interior. Fixed windows are on the north and south elevations and the entrance door is at the western end. The building sits on basalt piles and has corrugated steel roofing. The interior originally had six rooms on each side of a central corridor, but these were mostly stripped out, probably around the late 1940s. It is now a large interior space, with a room reinstated at the south-east end for interpretation and public viewing. At the east end of the building is a toilet block addition, built in 1985 in place of an earlier kitchen/dining room extension. The building was restored and repiled in 1997. Further repair work was undertaken in circa 2013 following damage from the Canterbury earthquakes.
Location
List Entry Information
Overview
Detailed List Entry
Status
Listed
List Entry Status
Historic Place Category 1
Access
Private/No Public Access
List Number
7408
Date Entered
12th December 1997
Date of Effect
12th December 1997
City/District Council
Christchurch City
Region
Canterbury Region
Legal description
part of Rural Sec. 40620 Blk IV, Halswell SD (recreational Reserve)
Location Description
Quail Island is located in Charteris Bay, Lyttelton Harbour.