Imperial Hotel

NZ 15 SE STANLEY FRONT STREET (North side) Stanley 7/165 Imperial Hotel II Hotel, now offices. Circa 1905. Brick with polychrome terracotta and glazed tile dressings; ground floor painted; graduated Lakeland slate roof with terracotta gable copings and wood corner turret. Baroque style. 2 storeys, 5 bays, with canted left corner bay and one-bay left return. Flushed doors and overlights, in central and fifth bays, under pediments; circa 1980 hood added over main door. Ground-floor bays defined by pilasters, paired between 3-light mullioned-and-transomed windows, supporting entablature; 2-storey canted fourth bay. First floor has Art Nouveau IMPERIAL HOTEL in central panel; moulded aproned surrounds and alternate-block jambs to paired sashes in other bays. Top cornice. Mansard roof has 4 gabled dormers containing paired sashes with upper glazing bars; wide, moulded kneelers; 3 tall ridge chimneys on plinths. Corner bay has 6-panel double door and overlight under half-octagonal terra-cotta oriel with panelled entablature below slate coping; panelled octagonal clock turret, dome lost.

Listing NGR: NZ1934852769