Connaught Hotel

The Connaught Hotel, originally known as the Coburg Hotel, was built between 1894 and 1896 by Lewis Isaacs and H L Florence. It is a prominent building on a corner site, part of the rebuilding of Mount Street carried out in the 1880s and 1890s for the Grosvenor Estate. The building is constructed of red brick with extensive stone dressings and a slate roof, designed in a Free Jacobean-Renaissance style. It has five storeys, a basement, and gabled attics with later dormers.

The building comprises four-bay pavilions facing Carlos Place and Mount Street, and a wide, slightly recessed, eleven-bay quadrant block forming the corner. The windows are stone-mullioned and transomed, with sash lights and stone panelled aprons. A balustraded stone entrance porch is topped by an early 20th-century projecting iron and glass canopy. A four-storey canted bay window, also with stone mullions and a balustraded parapet, terminates the Carlos Place pavilion. Architectural details include band and sill courses, a main course section of balustrade between dormers and gables, heavy balustraded and bracketed balconies on the first and second floors, and a stone area parapet pierced with sections of balustrading.