Trafford Park Hotel

STRETFORD ASHBURTON ROAD EAST SJ 79 NE (SJ 7996 NW) (south side) 2/7 Trafford Park Hotel - - II Hotel. 1902. Brick with terra-cotta dressings and C20 concrete tile roof. 3 x 8 bays with 3 storeys. Mixed Renaissance style. Symmetrical elevation with an abundance of detailed enrichment. Plinth, quoins, sill bands, first and second floor bands and panelled parapet. Double central doors with fanlight is flanked by paired Ionic flat pilasters. Pilasters with enriched panels also flank the windows on the first and second floors of bay 2 and are repeated above the parapet on a central clock tower with scrolls to either side, modillion cornice and swept lead roof. Bays 1 and 3 have 3-storey canted bay windows set within recesses and with pilaster surrounds and strapwork cartouches at the top. Shaped gables with moulded finials. Similar details are used on the other elevations which are asymmetrical. The left return has a large stair window, the right has the name of the hotel within a gable as well as on a decorative cartouche. Shaped chimney stacks with barleysugar pots add interest to the skyline. Interior: many original fittings remain including timber panelling, a grand staircase, doors, one with a pilaster surround and pulvinated frieze, plaster cornices and glazed tiles in the porch which have been painted over.

Listing NGR: SJ7953596749