The Royal Adelaide Hotel

The Royal Adelaide Hotel dates from around 1830 and is an example of late Regency classical architecture. It is a three-storey building with a rendered (stuccoed) facade. The building has a corniced parapet that curves upwards. There are four windows on each floor, with slender mullioned sashes in architrave surrounds with a curved top (cambered head). The outer windows of the main block curve inwards to create rounded corners, each topped with a pediment. French casements (windows that open like doors) open onto a first-floor balcony made of cast iron with a Gothic pattern. A doorway and the adjacent window on the ground floor are flanked by pilasters (flat, rectangular columns) with decorative capitals shaped like water leaves. There are cornices above the ground-floor windows. A lower extension to the north has a moulded cornice and a blocking course, with a first-floor window and a small balcony (balconette). The south return elevation has four bays and a large, segmental pedimented doorway with pilasters topped with water leaf capitals. The Royal Adelaide Hotel is part of a group with Nos. 48 to 52 (even).