Etruria House Hotel

Etruria House Hotel is a house that has been converted into a hotel, built in 1876 with some alterations in the late 20th century. It was originally constructed for John Armitage, a manufacturer of decorative fireclay products. The building is made of yellow brick and features elaborate moulded fireclay decorations, topped with a hipped slate roof that has a coped brick ridge and side wall stacks.

The exterior includes a plinth, a dentilled cornice at the ground floor, a first-floor sill band, a string course, and modillion eaves adorned with floral panels. The structure is two storeys high and has a five-window range. The five segment-headed plain sashes have ornamented surrounds, with the third and fourth windows arranged as a pair above a bay window. Below, there are two canted brick bay windows that feature dentilled cornices and panelled coped parapets, each with three round-arched plain sashes separated by twisted Corinthian columns and flanked by pilasters.

Between the bay windows is a fireclay doorcase with panelled Corinthian pilasters, an ornamented segmental head, and a cornice, although it is partly blocked and now contains a late 20th-century casement. To the right of the bay windows is an identical doorcase with a 20th-century door and overlight. There is also a set-back service wing that is two storeys high and has a single window range, featuring a double plain sash with a central shaft, and below it, a 20th-century door with sidelights.

Inside, the entrance hall has an enriched segmental arch supported by double columns and a wooden staircase with turned balusters. The central room features a pierced cornice and a panelled ceiling with a decorative boss. The nearby lodge and gate piers, as well as Armitage's works at Devonshire Street, are also richly decorated with his fireclay products.