[1] The former Isisford District Hospital is a timber-framed and -clad complex with corrugated iron roofing, located in western central Queensland.

[2] Pastoral development south along the Barcoo River brought workers, drovers and teamsters, boosting Whittown as a service centre.

Construction of the Central Western railway line from Rockhampton brought transportation closer with each stage completed - reaching Jericho in 1885, and Barcaldine in November 1886.

[5] At the end of October 1892, the committee was advertising for a matron and a wardsman, and by February the following year the hospital was treating patients.

An essential element of a good hospital site was an elevated position on a generous area of land, preferably on the outskirts of a town.

A large hospital reserve, well removed from the urban centre, was believed to minimise the effect of noxious and foul vapours.

[8][1] Managed by its committee, with the support of the wider community, the Isisford District Hospital provided valuable medical service for the next 52 years.

Funds were raised through subscriptions from members of the community, shearers' contributions, donations of goods and money, and fund-raising events, such as concerts.

The fine block of buildings is erected on an elevated central position, and a beautiful breeze appears to always prevail around the spacious verandahs.

The hospital in Isisford appears altogether too large and well-appointed for the size of the town, but still in years to come it may be too inadequate.

The building is lighted throughout with acetylene gas.... A very fine new residence (which adjoins the hospital) has just been erected and furnished at a cost of about £1700 for the doctor.

"Further health legislation, which altered hospital and medical services in the state, was enacted during the 1920s and 1930s by the Queensland Government.

Local authorities were relieved of any financial responsibility towards the maintenance of hospitals, and their representation on boards was reduced to one member with the remainder appointed by the government.

[35] This prompted the committee to send a letter of complaint to Queensland Premier Ned Hanlon in May 1946 about the lack of staff at Isisford Hospital due to bureaucratic inefficiency.

[36] At the same time a series of public meetings were held and Isisford established the Isisford Hospital Benefit Fund from June 1946 - a voluntary subscription list for the purpose of endowing the nursing staffs' wages at £5 per person per calendar month, as compensation for the extra cost of living in the isolated district.

[39][1] Post-World War II, Isisford's population rose and its facilities developed due to good seasons and a boom in wool prices.

[47][1] On 14 September 1970, the Queensland Cabinet decided that Isisford Hospital in future would operate as an Outpatients' Centre with a number of holding beds and a dental clinic.

[49][1] In the twenty-first century, a further reduction of services to the region occurred with the closure of the Jericho-Yaraka railway line and its replacement with sealed road from Blackall to Windorah.

[1] As at 2014, the former Isisford District Hospital retains fabric from its earliest phase through its development over the ensuring 70 years.

It comprises a spacious complex of lowset, single storey, timber-framed and clad buildings sheltered under corrugated iron roofs and interconnected by verandahs and covered ways.

Mature plantings in the vicinity of the hospital include a Kurrajong (Brachychiton populneus), Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus Macrophylla) and a Eucalyptus sp.

[1] The 1892 building is positioned laterally under a gabled roof between the 1909 pavilion ward to the west and the 1950s operating theatre to the southeast.

Its western end has been extended under the adjacent 1909 ward verandah and rooms reconfigured to accommodate an outpatients clinic.

The eastern end is covered by the interior walls and ceilings are lined with flat sheeting, floors with vinyl and joinery has been replaced.

[1] The 1909 pavilion female ward is a long rectangular building under a hipped roof, encircled by wide verandahs generally enclosed with lattice.

It is of exposed frame construction, clad internally with wide, v-jointed tongue-and-groove boards with a coved pressed metal ceiling and polished timber floor.

One room wide, it retains its early joinery: a pair of French doors with fanlight at each end and four along each side.

A centrally located nurses' station, separating the two ward rooms projects onto the western verandah opposite the entrance to the building.

[1] Later buildings on the site date from the 1950s and have low pitched corrugated iron roofs and wide eaves.

[1] Old Isisford District Hospital was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 9 September 2014 having satisfied the following criteria.