Warrington Hotel

The Warrington Hotel is a mid-19th century hotel with later alterations. It is constructed of brick, with stucco to the first floor, and has a faience (glazed earthenware) front to the entrance. The building is three storeys high, with three bays, and an additional two-storey bay to the right.

The ground floor features a wide, projecting porch with semi-circular ends, topped with a large shell niche and a panelled balcony on the first floor. A curved flight of steps with mosaic decoration leads to the porch, which is supported by faience columns with damaged Ionic capitals that have been boxed in. A triple pilastered entrance is also in faience, incorporating lion head motifs. The first floor has sash windows, tripartite (divided into three lights) in architraves with pediments containing decorative stucco relief work. A pair of volutes and a festoon appear centrally at the pediment. A band runs at pediment level. The second floor has stepped, tripartite round-arched sash windows in architraves, with central pediments and consoles to the sides. A shallow pedimented blocking course displays the hotel name. Further decorative stucco work is present to the additional bay and the Randolph Avenue front, which features niches containing busts on the first floor.

The interior is noteworthy, including bars with volutes and marble tops, panels of decorative leaded glass, elaborate cornices with scrollwork and shell motifs, an Ionic marbled arcade, a marbled fireplace, and a closed string staircase with turned balusters and newels with ball finials in a 17th-century style. Original fittings remain. The porch is flanked by a pair of octagonal lamps with scrolled iron bases on terracotta pedestals.