Olympia Social Club

The Olympia Social Club, originally known as the Locarno, is a music hall built in 1903 by the architect Frank Matcham. It now serves as a bingo hall. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings and features a slate roof. Its facade is curved and symmetrical, rising four storeys with a total of 15 bays. The ground floor is plastered, adorned with pilasters, a top entablature, and a high parapet. The central five bays contain 20th-century entrances and a canopy, while the flanking five bays have shop windows with doors beside them. The two end bays feature round-headed entrances.

On the first and second floors, there are laced windows set within architraves, with panels between the floors. The central three bays have first-floor windows that are currently obscured by boarding from 1984, and a second-floor loggia supported by a distyle Ionic colonnade on a balustraded balcony. The third to fifth and eleventh to thirteenth bays have third-floor windows framed in flat shouldered architraves with pediments, while the other bays showcase round windows. The low stone parapet over the end bays contrasts with the parapet above the third to thirteenth bays, which features stucco panels inscribed with the names "MECCA" and "LOCARNO," flanking a traceried lunette with pilasters and ramped parapets, all capped by a truncated pyramidal roof.

Inside, the building boasts rich decoration. The proscenium arch is flat and features blind arcading, although the stage has been removed. There are flanking bowed boxes with Moorish ogee arches and onion half-domes. The splayed side walls are decorated with panels on two levels, showcasing cusped blind arches and Moorish motifs; the lower level has two panels, while the upper has three, topped with elephant's heads. Additionally, there are three circles adorned with Moorish panelling and a fairly plain panelled ceiling. The Olympia Social Club is a well-preserved example of the work of one of the leading Edwardian theatre architects.