The Grand Hotel

The Grand Hotel, built in 1896 and 1898 by architects Cecil Ogden and Simpson and Harvey, is a large corner building designed in the Franco-German Renaissance style. It stands four storeys tall with attics, constructed of red brick with stone dressings. The building features a curved corner with paired columns on each floor, topped by a two-stage stone-domed cupola.

On the Granby Street side, there are two ornate pedimental gables flanking turrets, which have high tent-shaped roofs and a smaller gable in between. The Belvoir Street elevation showcases a very large gable with a pediment at the apex, flanked by octagonal domed turrets. This side also includes a large tripartite round-arch window for the first-floor banqueting hall, with pilastered round-arch lights above. All windows are designed with stone mullions and transoms, some set in two-storey shallow splayed bays with small pediments above. Moulded cornices are present at each floor level.

The ground floor features modern shop fronts, except for an iron-canopied entrance on Granby Street and a prominent entrance on Belvoir Street. The building is topped with steep chateau-type slate roofs that include dormers.