Tivoli House

Tivoli House is an originally an hotel and refreshment rooms, dating to 1836, with extensions in 1856 and the late 19th century. It is built of stock brick with slate and asbestos tile hipped roofs and deep eaves. The building is roughly half H-shaped; the left (north) wing was extended to the rear in 1856, and later in the 19th century with the addition of a large hall.

The west front is symmetrical, composed of five bays with projecting flanking wings that extend to attics. The rendered basement has rusticated openings at the centre and left. A brick string course runs at first floor level. The central five windows are round-headed on the ground floor and segmental-headed on the first floor, all with moulded stucco archivolts. The flanking wings feature tripartite sash windows on the ground floor within rusticated, segmentally headed architraves. Most windows are sash windows with glazing bars. The north return of the left cross-wing has ground floor rusticated cambered arch openings and wide rusticated doorways either side of the central window. Tall narrow sashes are on the first floor with moulded archivolts, and smaller six-pane sashes sit under the eaves. The centre three windows here have a continuous corbelled brick cill with an erased plaque below and tablets bearing the date 1836. Brick stringcourses are present, and a lower rear range from 1856 is located on the left with rusticated arch ground floor openings and round arch first floor windows. At the rear, various sash windows with glazing bars are present, some blocked, with one large ground floor window with a rusticated architrave. A large hall was added in the extreme left of the building in the late 19th century.

The interior entrance hall has dado panelling and an open-well staircase with moulded balusters, newels, and a mahogany handrail. Two principal first floor rooms in the north wing have reeded ceiling borders. Other features may be concealed by later alterations.

Tivoli House was originally built as an hotel and refreshment rooms to serve the Windmill Hill Pleasure Gardens, and was said to have included a ballroom. It was extended in 1856 when occupied by a Jewish Academy and again later in the 19th century. Illustrations of the building appear in a guide book from 1842 and on maps from around 1860.