Paradise House Hotel

Paradise House Hotel is a house that has been converted into a hotel, originally part of Paradise Row, built around 1735. It features a double-fronted design from around 1780 and has an addition from between 1850 and 1860, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with a slate roof.

The hotel has a wide, symmetrical frontage with a central staircase and a bold projecting octagonal section at the rear on both floors. It stands two storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has three windows, all of which are original sash windows with bars. The full-width attic, or mansard, has two widely spaced windows above a central twelve-pane window, flanked by bold Palladian windows that feature unfluted Doric columns and responds, all set on deep moulded sills with brackets. To the left of the central arched light, there are interlaced bars.

On the ground floor, there is a paired twelve-pane window flanking a five-panel door, which is framed by thin pilasters leading to brackets and a closed dentilled pediment. All windows on this level have moulded stone architraves, with the moulding extending down to the central mullion of the ground floor pairs. To the right of the door, there is a glazed laylight leading to the basement. The gables are coped and feature ashlar stacks.

To the left, there is a narrow extra bay added in the late 19th century, which has a hipped slate pavilion roof over a pair of sashes set in arches with two-coloured voussoirs and a tiled extrados, along with a central Ruskinian colonnette. The rear of the building has twelve-pane sashes on the left bay and four-pane sashes on the right, all with cornices and deep blocking courses. The interior has not been inspected. The current owner possesses a detailed coloured engraving by Thomas Robbins that depicts the house.