North Stafford Hotel

The North Stafford Hotel is a Grade II* listed hotel built in 1848 as part of the Stoke Station complex. It is designed in the Elizabethan and Jacobean style, constructed from brick with stone dressings and features plain tiled roofs. The building is three stories high with attics and consists of seven bays.

Notable architectural features include ornate Dutch gables over the outer and central bays. The outer bays have a tier of mullioned windows, with five lights and a transom on the ground floor and two lights in the attic storey. The ground-floor windows are square section bays topped with fretted parapets, while the first-floor windows are adorned with strapwork decoration.

The central advanced bay creates a full-height porch, which includes a round-arched doorway with margin lights and is flanked by shafts that exhibit marked entasis. Above the doors, there is a parapet, and mullioned windows with strapwork decoration are positioned above. The intermediate bays feature three-light mullioned windows with transoms on the ground floor, and attic dormers are set behind the eaves parapet. The building also has axial stacks.