Trafford Park Hotel

The Trafford Park Hotel is a hotel built in 1902, featuring brick construction with terra-cotta dressings and a 20th-century concrete tile roof. The building has three storeys and is arranged in a symmetrical elevation with three sets of eight bays, showcasing a mixed Renaissance style with rich detailing. Notable features include a plinth, quoins, sill bands, and decorative bands on the first and second floors, topped by a panelled parapet. The central entrance consists of double doors with a fanlight, flanked by paired Ionic flat pilasters. The first and second floors of bay 2 also have pilasters with enriched panels, which are echoed above the parapet on a central clock tower adorned with scrolls, a modillion cornice, and a swept lead roof. Bays 1 and 3 feature three-storey canted bay windows set within recesses, surrounded by pilasters and topped with strapwork cartouches. The building is crowned with shaped gables that have moulded finials. The other elevations are asymmetrical, with the left side showcasing a large stair window and the right side displaying the hotel's name within a gable and on a decorative cartouche. Shaped chimney stacks with barleysugar pots enhance the skyline. Inside, 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.