Odeon Cinema

The Odeon Cinema, located in Hanley, Stoke on Trent, was built in 1929 by W. E. Trent for Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Limited. This cinema features a steel frame clad in brick and faience, with a roof that is not visible. The layout includes an auditorium with a circle and a theatre fly tower at the rear of the entrance foyer, along with a first-floor restaurant facing Piccadilly. The building is designed in the Art Deco style.

The two-storey elevation facing Piccadilly is clad in faience and adorned with masks of comedy and tragedy, featuring a five-light first-floor window with original glazing above two sets of six double doors that have original etched glazing set in revealed architrave. The elevations on Pall Mall and Cheapside are in an Italianate style, showcasing a rusticated faience ground floor, with "PCT" displayed in cartouches and the original name "The Regent" featured in faience signs.

Inside, the entrance from Piccadilly leads to a large foyer with a coffered ceiling, moulded pilasters, an enriched cornice, and original light fittings. Stairs lead through four etched glass doors to a large circle foyer that has a coved plaster ceiling and pilasters. The auditorium is lavishly designed in Art Deco style, featuring stalls and a circle, with a square proscenium arch that has moulded plasterwork and is flanked by elaborate grilles for a former organ. There is an orchestra pit, and the circle is supported on square moulded piers that extend to the ceiling with simple capitals and uplighters. The moulded balcony front is stepped to the sides, and there is a central ceiling dome with ribbed and "v-shaped" mouldings, along with a coffered ceiling over the rear circle that retains original light fittings.

The Odeon Cinema is included as a late 1920s cinema that is part of the historically significant Provincial Cinematograph Theatre Circuit, which played a key role in pioneering the "super cinema" concept in Britain, inspired by American models.