366, ESSEX ROAD

No. 366 Essex Road is a shop that has been converted into a hotel, dating from around 1860. It features two facades that are equally important, facing Essex Road and Ockendon Road, and they are set at a shallow convex angle to each other. The building is constructed of yellow brick laid in Flemish bond, with stucco detailing, and the roof is obscured by a parapet.

Each facade has three storeys. The ground floor projects as a shop front, with two bays on each street, separated by piers made of pink polished granite. The Essex Road bays retain their original glazing and entrances, which are framed by wooden doorcases, pilaster-jambs, cornices, overlights, and woodwork that features incised ornament. The first bay on Ockendon Road also has original glazing, but the second bay was filled in around 1980.

Above the shop front, there is an entablature that serves as a fascia, topped by a continuous run of iron cresting. The first-floor windows on both fronts have flat arches with round-arched stucco mouldings, connected by springing bands, and the tympana are filled with modeled ornament. The second-floor windows are supported by sills on brackets and cornices on consoles, with elaborate scrolling ornament above.

On the Essex Road front, there is a moulded plaster panel to the south and a curved recessed plaster panel at the corner. The building features a bracketed cornice with a panelled frieze, and a blocking course with a raised panel at the corner that has 'JAY' incised into it, flanked by consoles with modeled floral ornament. Additionally, between the second and third bays of the Essex Road front, there is a large clock mounted on ornate iron brackets, with the inscription 'ESTD JAY 1862'. This building is a well-preserved example of a pawnbrokers' and jewellers' shop from that period.