Norfolk Resort Hotel

The Norfolk Resort Hotel is a hotel built in 1865 by Horatio Goulty. It is constructed of stucco with a lead roof and features five and six storeys above a basement, arranged in a seven-window range. The ground floor projects forward and has a central entrance flanked by Corinthian columns, with additional engaged Corinthian columns set back. An ornate keystone is positioned above the entrance, and an entablature breaks forward twice over the entrance, extending across the entire front. The ground floor has late 20th-century glazing and continuous cast-iron railings above the entablature, forming a first-floor balcony.

The central section of the façade, which is three windows wide, stands slightly forward and is edged with pilasters treated as quoins. All windows are flat-arched, featuring a segmental archivolt and keystone above. The second floor includes continuous balconies at the center and wings, with cast-iron railings between piers. There is a sill band to the third-floor windows that creates shallow balconies, and the building has a bracketed eaves cornice. The central section rises to a sixth floor with six windows linked by an arcade of engaged columns and segmental archivolts with keystones, along with a bracketed eaves cornice. The side bays feature pedimented dormers, and there are broad arcaded side stacks with bracketed cornices, as well as narrower stacks with bracketed cornices on either side of the center. The roofs are mansard with a curved profile.

Inside, the notable features that have survived include a cantilevered staircase that rises through four storeys and a glass dome to the right of the staircase, which is decorated with gilded arabesques. The staircase has cast-iron balusters with monograms, a ramped rail, and an open decorative string, but lacks a newel. There was previously a lift in the well of the staircase, and the lift gates remain as part of the balustrade.