16, Buttermarket

No. 16 Buttermarket is a former hotel that now serves as offices and has a restaurant on the first floor. Built in 1894 by Henry J. Wright for E.W. Hodge, the building features red brick with red sandstone dressings. It stands four storeys tall and has two and three bays, topped by an embattled parapet.

The gable end has internal stacks with recessed panels and a wide oversailing cap. Pilaster shafts rise from the first floor upwards at each end of the facade, featuring moulded stone bases and square plans. At mid-first floor level, there are terracotta lion's heads, above which are polygonal, central chamfered shafts extending to the second and third storeys. Moulded bands at the level of each storey and the cornice extend across the shafts, creating a frieze at the first and second storeys, with the upper level displaying a repeated foliate design in terracotta.

The ground floor has a late 20th-century shop front, with a former hotel doorway to the right. The first floor consists of three bays, each defined by an arch above the windows; the central bay is wider and features a lion's head keystone. The central oriel windows have a configuration of 1:2:1 semicircular headed lights, with the central section being mullioned and transomed, and stained glass in the upper lights. Between the bays are pilasters with moulded bases and finials.

The embattled parapet is present above similar mullion and transomed windows on the left and right, also featuring stained glass and moulded terracotta spandrels below. The second and third storeys are similar, with the second floor dressed in stone and the third floor using moulded brick. The second and third storeys each have two bays, with pairs of three-light windows beneath shallow four-centre-arched heads that include moulded keystones and stops to the label. Each window has three semicircular headed lights, with the central light being taller. An iron bracket at the first floor level once supported street lighting.