The three buildings forming the hospital followed the western side of George Street, along with Principal and Assistant Surgeons' quarters.

An interesting feature is that the rear of Allotment 9 is slightly indented and this was done to accommodate two small bluffs or outcrops of sandstone marked on the plan.

The only significant variation to it is that he was the father of William Bede Dalley, a very successful barrister who became one of the most prominent NSW parliamentarians in the 1870s and 1880s.

[1] Occupancy for the second half of the nineteenth century is established through the Sands Directories; however, some allowance has had to be made for renumbering of the street.

[1] The 1865 Trigonometric Survey shows in simple outline two identical-sized buildings with the narrow alleyway leading to unevenly sized rear yards.

117, with the small dunny on the ground floor being the rectangle visible in the 1900 plan, with a slightly angled fence attached to its corner.

Given the signage and the elaborate door and window surrounds on the ground floor it is possible that John Fell and Co. undertook an upgrade or even reconstruction of the façade of the building to mark their occupation.

Large metalframed windows provided light for each floor, separated by a possibly metal infill strip.

In 1960 an application was made to the City Council on behalf of the League of Health to add external shades to the upper windows.

[1] Bagot Smith's and Hughes' work and objectives with the League are characterised as "first wave feminism", being concerned with basic structural gender inequality.

Operated by Mr William (Bill) Cudlipp it was one of the first tourist oriented businesses in The Rocks and, according to Colonel Owen Magee (the Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority's Executive Director of the time): "his business acumen allowing him to see the opportunities in what was then a grubby area, his near neighbours at that time being a row of derelict shops left that way by the BLF bans".

[2] Between 1973 and 1978 extensive ground floor renovations took place as part of the initial five-year lease to Flame Opals.

This had the incidental consequence of requiring the remnant walls of the basement to be raised by several courses of modern brick to support the floor.

[1] In c. 1985 the thoroughly modern red brick façade of the building was altered to make it blend in better with its neighbours and the prevailing historical motif of The Rocks.

The result is reasonably effective, as the expectation from a casual glance is that it is an older building with a make-over, rather than a modern one artificially aged.

Julian Ashton students have included William Dobell, John Olsen, Brett Whiteley and Nora Heysen.

The association of the site with John Dalley is locally significant in the context of The Rocks, where he is representative of successful emancipist entrepreneurs.

[1] Julian Ashton Art School was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 10 May 2002 having satisfied the following criteria.

The strength of the movement indicates that it met a particular need for both social activity and exercise, combined with health and pregnancy information.

The exercise regimes are representative of a number of physical activity focussed formal groups and movements that developed in Australia during the Inter-war period and following WWII.

The site has an association with, successively, the Convict Hospital, Hotels and Boarding houses and small scale businesses.

The building is associated with the Women's League of Health, which is synonymous with Dorothea (Thea) Stanley Hughes, who brought the movement to Australia, established it here and ran it until she wound it up.

Hughes is important for her role in the development and operation of the League as an example of an early fitness and health movement.

[1] The association of the site with John Dalley is significant in the context of The Rocks, where he is representative of successful emancipist entrepreneurs.

While it is likely that his later life and personality were influenced by his childhood experiences in The Rocks, there is no specific significant connection with the legal and political work for which he is regarded.

[1] The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales.

The building, with its current façade and scale, contributes to the appreciation of this section of the George Street streetscape as a mosaic of late 19th- and early 20th-century architecture.

[1] The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.

The known and potential archaeological resource has the ability to clarify the history of the site's building construction sequence and to contribute to the documentation of patterns of life in The Rocks, and more generally in Sydney.

The modified façade however is interesting in the history of heritage conservation in The Rocks, as it presents relatively rare evidence of attempts to historicize modern buildings that are located in a sensitive historical environment.