Midland Hotel

The Midland Hotel is a hotel built between 1932 and 1933 by Oliver Hill, located on Marine Road Central in Morecambe. The building features a curved plan with a convex side facing west towards the sea and is constructed from concrete and rendered brickwork, painted white. It stands three storeys tall, with steel-framed casement windows that have rendered surrounds. Each storey is accentuated by projecting horizontal bands.

The entrance front has a rounded left-hand corner and a convex central staircase projection that rises above the roof level. This projection includes a tall window of steel casements above the doorway, divided into three by mullions, both topped with sea horses carved by Eric Gill and painted red. To the right, there is a single-storey café with a circular plan, now known as the Ravilious Restaurant. The west side features a single-storey projecting sun lounge, which is an addition, and its windows have been replaced with PVC-coated steel. The first and second floors have recessed walls between the solid centre and ends of the facade, creating balconies.

Inside, above the cantilevered circular open-well staircase, there is a ceiling panel carved in low relief by Eric Gill and painted by Denis Tegetmeier. They also created a pictorial map of north-west England that was originally in the children's room at the south end of the building. In this room, there is also a Portland stone panel by Eric Gill, originally in the lounge, depicting Odysseus and Nausicaa, which was relocated when internal walls were removed in the 1970s. The café walls were initially adorned with frescoes by Eric Ravilious, illustrating morning and evening in a seascape, but these deteriorated quickly due to incompatible materials and were lost within two years. They were later repainted in the late 1980s using photographic evidence.