St George's Hotel, St George's Crescent, including forecourt walls in St George's Place

This is a hotel, built in the 18th century. It is situated on a corner plot with elevations facing Parade and St George’s Place, and includes forecourt walls in St George’s Place. The exterior is stuccoed, with a rusticated ground floor, and has a slate roof. The building is three storeys high, with a basement and attic level. While the original sash windows have been replaced with metal casement glazing, the hotel retains a grand architectural presence.

The front elevation features a giant order of Corinthian pilasters extending to the first and second floors, topped by a crowing entablature. Above this is an attic storey with plain pilasters and a moulded cornice. The windows are distinguished by their varying architraves – the second floor windows have stuccoed, shouldered architraves, the first-floor windows have moulded architraves with alternating triangular and segmental pediments on consoles. The Parade facade features a glazed loggia with a balustrade and Ionic columns, as well as a deep fascia board and elaborate iron railings to a first-floor balcony.

The hotel has been extended to incorporate a formerly separate building to the left, adding five windows to the Parade frontage. The attic level features a central dormer with a triangular pediment and paired sashes, while the outer bays have dormers with relief decoration and semi-circular pediments, each containing a single sash window. A modillion cornice runs along the top of the building. A moulded band course separates the cornice from the second-floor windows. The second-floor windows are 12-pane sashes in lugged architraves. The first-floor windows lack glazing bars and are set within moulded architraves, the central window being distinguished by a segmental pediment. A glazed verandah shelters a central doorway flanked by two sash windows on each side.

Along St George’s Place, the central bay of a three-window block features granite steps with balusters leading to a porch with paired granite columns; granite facing defines the entrance. To the right, a five-storey tower has a hipped roof and round-headed windows. There are three round-headed attic windows, and two windows on each of the third, second, and first floors, with a bow window below. Further to the right is a four-storey and attic block with eight windows, exhibiting segmental pediments to the attic dormers, a bracketed cornice, and a mix of alternating 1-light and tripartite windows with segmental pediments on the first floor. Ground floor windows alternate between bow windows and single-light openings, with a porch in the end bay. Stone balustraded forecourt walls and piers are present in St George’s Place. Both end blocks include sash windows with flat beads on the ground floor, and a circa 1912 ornate ironwork balcony parapet is located before the first floor of the hotel.

Internally, the hotel retains cornices and other decorative features, generally in a Baroque style. A grand dining room, likely dating from the early 20th century, is decorated in an Adam style, featuring a low-relief frieze, swags, panelling, and other ornate detailing.