Imperial Hotel

The Imperial Hotel is a building dating from around 1905, originally constructed as a hotel and now used as offices. It is made of brick with polychrome terracotta and glazed tile decorations, while the ground floor is painted. The roof is made of graduated Lakeland slate and features terracotta gable copings and a wooden corner turret, all designed in a Baroque style.

The building is two storeys high and consists of five bays, including a canted left corner bay and a one-bay left return. The central and fifth bays have flushed doors and overlights, which are topped with pediments; a hood was added over the main door around 1980. The ground-floor bays are defined by pilasters, with paired 3-light mullioned-and-transomed windows that support an entablature. The fourth bay is a two-storey canted bay.

On the first floor, the central panel displays "IMPERIAL HOTEL" in an Art Nouveau style, with moulded aproned surrounds and alternate-block jambs framing the paired sash windows in the other bays. The building features a top cornice, and the mansard roof has four gabled dormers that contain paired sashes with upper glazing bars. The roof also has wide, moulded kneelers and three tall ridge chimneys on plinths. The corner bay includes a six-panel double door and overlight beneath a half-octagonal terracotta oriel, which has a panelled entablature below the slate coping. There is a panelled octagonal clock turret, although the dome has been lost.