3-9, Market Street and 90 and 92, Chester Street

This building is a group of four shops located at 3-9 Market Street and 90 and 92 Chester Street in Birkenhead, dating from around 1837. Originally the Albion Hotel, designed by Edward Welch, it features an ashlar facade and was once topped with a Welsh slate roof, which is now missing. The structure has three storeys and a five-window range that is unevenly spaced.

There are three early 20th-century shop fronts, each with pilasters on either side and a beaded moulding over the fascia, although parts of the fascia are now missing. The upper window spaces are currently devoid of cases, but they likely originally held twelve-pane sash windows. A moulded cornice runs along the top of the building.

On the Chester Street side, there is a pedimented return featuring a three-window range with stressed architraves; however, the stone brackets for a balcony are now absent. The central door and flanking windows on the rusticated basement storey are largely blocked, leaving only the stressed voussoirs visible. Additionally, there is a late 19th-century shop front with a canted bay to the left.