The Shades Hotel

The Shades Hotel is a public house located on Church Street in Hartlepool, built in the mid-19th century and refaced around 1900. The building is constructed of brick, with faience cladding on the ground floor and stucco on the upper floors, topped by a hipped Welsh slate roof featuring three ridge stacks. It is designed in the Art Nouveau style and consists of three storeys.

The ground floor has nine bays, while the upper floors have five bays, including an additional quadrant corner bay. The doorways in the first, third, and corner bays feature three-panelled double doors with overlights that have glazing bars, framed by panelled pilasters. Above the corner doorway is a male human mask keystone. The fifth bay has a flat-arched window with panelled pilasters, while the other bays showcase arcaded windows supported by quasi-Ionic columns, adorned with female human mask keystones and figures in the spandrels, all leading up to an elaborately decorated frieze and a dentil cornice.

The upper-floor bays are accentuated by Composite pilasters, with the second and fourth bays being wider and featuring canted first-floor bay windows topped with small pediments above the central opening. The second-floor windows are paired and set between quasi-Ionic pilasters. All upper-floor windows are fitted with casements or fixed lights, with geometric glazing bars on the first-floor top lights and glazing bars on the second-floor windows, where the sills and lintels extend as moulded string courses. The building is finished with a frieze and a deep dentil and modillion eaves cornice, which is bracketed above the first and fifth bays. The right return of the building has eight ground-floor bays and five upper-floor bays that mirror the front design. The hotel was disused at the time of the survey.