Hunters Quay Hotel

Hunters Quay Hotel is a villa built around 1870, with additions and alterations made around 1900. It is an asymmetrical two-storey and attic, five-bay T-plan structure featuring ornate Italianate and French Empire detailing. The building has extensions to the south and west, forming an L-plan, with a square-plan tower at the rear and a two-storey circular bay with a conical roof at the southeast corner. The exterior is finished with smooth-rendered masonry, which includes a base course, a discontinuous band course, and projecting cills. The first floor has round-headed openings with keystones.

The principal elevation faces east and features a timber entrance porch adorned with decorative cast-iron brattishing positioned to the right of the center. To the right, there is an advanced bay with projecting tripartite windows that have a consoled architrave and corbelling on the first storey, along with a Venetian dormer in the attic. To the left of the porch, there is a canted bay with an Italianate gable and a blind oculus at the gablehead. The outer left features a conical-roofed circular bay with six-light windows, a battered base course, and a lead finial. There are mansard and pitched-roofed additions to the south and west.

The tower is a four-stage square plan with chamfered angles at the southwest corner, featuring corbelled detailing. It has mock machicolations and gun loops, topped with a tall, steep French roof that rests on a modillion eaves cornice. Gabled lucarnes include small inset round-arched windows and decorative brattishing.

Inside, the hotel boasts a high-quality Victorian interior with ornate white and polychrome plasterwork, carved doors, chimneypieces, and other joinery in the principal rooms. A glazed oculus is set in a cupola above the stairhall, which features an open well flying stair with wrought iron decorative balusters and a carved newel post. There is a Corinthian screen in the entrance hall. The windows are fitted with plate glass set in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with grey slate and lead flashings, and there are shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.